Current and Past Readings
(selections from the following works)
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
- Foucault, Michel. Les aveux de la chair: Histoire de la sexualité 4. Paris: Gallimard, 2018. [Confessions of the Flesh: The History of Sexuality Volume IV. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021.]
Spring 2021
- Glissant, Edouard. Le discours antillais. Paris: Gallimard, 1997. 13-35, 470-485. [Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays. Translated by J. Michael Dash. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1989. 1-12, 159-170.]
- Bernabé, Jean, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant. Éloge de la Créolité/In Praise of Creoleness. Bilingual Edition. Translated by M.B. Taleb-Khyar. Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
- Condé, Maryse. "Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer". Yale French Studies 83 (1993). 121-135.
- Wynter, Sylvia. "Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant and the New Discourse of the Antilles". World Literature Today 63.4 (Autumn 1989). 637-648.
- Abraham, Nicholas and Maria Torok. L'Écorce et la noyau. Paris: Flammarion, 1978. 273-277 [The Shell and the Kernel. Translated by Nicholas T. Rand. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. 107-138, 157-161, 171-186.]
- Rand, Nicholas T. and Maria Torok. Questions à Freud: Du devenir de la psychanalyse. Paris: Les Belles Letters, 1995. 229-275 [Questions for Freud: The Secret History of Psychoanalysis. Translated by Nicholas T. Rand. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 219-224.]
- Canguilhem, Georges. Le normal et le pathologique. Paris: PUF, 1966. [The Normal and the Pathological. Translated by Carolyn R. Fawcett with with Robert S. Cohen. New York: Zone Books, 1991.]
- Peña-Guzmán, David. "French Historical Epistemology: Discourse, Concepts, and the Norms of Rationality". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 79 (2020): 68-76.
Fall 2020
- Wittig, Monique. "La pensée straight". Questions Féministes 7. 1980. 45-53; "On ne naît pas femme". Questions Féministes 8. 1980. 75-84. ["The Category of Sex", "One is not Born a Woman", and "The Straight Mind". In The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. 1-32.]
- Huffer, Lynne. Foucault's Strange Eros. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
- Foucault, Michel and Gilles Deleuze. "Les intellectuels et le pouvoir". In Michel Foucault Dits et écrits I. Paris: Quarto Gallimard, 2001. 1174-1183. ["Intellectuals and Power". In Michel Foucault Language, Counter-memory, Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. 205-217.]
- Wittig, Monique. Le corps lesbienne. Paris: Minuit, 1973. [The Lesbian Body. Translated by David Le Vay. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1975.]
- Beauvoir, Simone de. Les bouches inutiles. Paris: Gallimard, 1972. ["The Useless Mouths". Translated by Liz Stanley and Catherine Naji. In "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 9-88.]
- Beauvoir, Simone de. "Littérature et métaphysique". In L'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. Paris: Nagel, 1963. 89-107. ["Literature and Metaphysics". Translated by Veronique Zaytzeff and Frederick M. Morrison. In Philosophical Writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 269-278.]
- Beauvoir, Simone de. "Mon expérience d'écrivain". In Les écrits de Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. 435-457. ["My Experience as a Writer". Translated by J. Debbie Mann. In "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 282-301.]
Spring 2020
- Lévinas, Emmanuel. De l'existence à l'existent. Paris: Vrin, 1963. 15-52, 107-165. [Existence and Existents. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Boston: Kluwer, 1978. 17-36, 65-96.]
- Dussel, Enrique. Filosofia de la liberación. Mexico: EDICOL, 1977. Chapter 2. [Philosophy of Liberation. Translated by Aquilina Martinez and Christine Morkovsky. Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 1985. Chapter 2.]
- Thao, Tran-Duc. "Sur l'Indochine". Les Temps Moderne 5. 1946. 878-900.
- Montaigne, Michel de. "Sur les cannibales". In Les essais. Paris: Quarto Gallimard, 2009. 251-266. ["Of Cannibals". In The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Translated by Donald Frame. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958. 150-159]
- Bonneuil, Christophe and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. L'événement Anthropocène: La terre, l'histoire et nous. Paris: Seuil, 2013. Chapter 10. [The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us. Translated by David Fernbach. New York: Verso, 2016. Chapter 10.]
- Bergson, Henri. "Le Possible et le Réel". In La Pensée et la mouvement. Paris: PUF, 1938. ["The Possible and the Real". Translated by Mabelle Andison. In The Creative Mind. New York: Dover, 2007.]
- Rancière, Jacques. "Dix thèses sur la politique". In Aux bords du politique. Paris: Gallimard, 1998. 223-254. ["Ten Theses on Politics". Translated by Davide Panagia and Rachel Bowlby. Theory & Event 5.3. 2001.]
- Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnées de la terre. Paris: François Maspero, 1961. Chapter 4 and Conclusion. [The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2004. Chapter 4 and Conclusion.]
- Fanon, Frantz and Jacques Azoulay. "La sociothérapie dans un service d'hommes musulmans: Difficultés méthodologiques". In Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté. Paris: La Découverte, 2015. 366-386. ["Social Therapy in a Ward of Muslim Men: Methodological Difficulties[ Translated by Steven Corcoran. In Alienation and Freedom. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. 355-371.]
- Robcis, Camille. "Frantz Fanon, Institutional Psychotherapy, and the Decolonization of Psychiatry". Journal of the History of Ideas 81.2. April 2020. 303-325.
- Despentes, Virginie. King Kong Théorie. Paris: Grasset, 2006. [King Kong Theory. Translated by Stéphanie Benson. New York: The Feminist Press, 2010.]
Fall 2019
- Derrida, Jacques. De la grammatologie. Paris: Minuit, 1967. 11-108. [Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. 3-73.]
- Chenoweth, Katie. The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2019. 1-47.
- Therezo, Rodrigo. "When Silence Strikes: Derrida, Heidegger, Mallarmé". Oxford Literary Review 40.2. 2018. 238-262.
- Damas, Leon. "Introduction". Poètes d'expression française: 1900-1945. Paris: Seuil, 1947.
- Guattari, Félix. Les trois écologies. Paris: Galilée, 1989. 11-73 [The Three Ecologies. Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton. London: The Althone Press, 2000. 27-69]
- Foucault, Michel. L'ordre du discours. Paris: Gallimard, 1971. ["The Discourse on Language". Translated by Rupert Swyer. In The Archeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.]
- Kofman, Sarah. Mélancolie de l'art. Paris: Galilée, 1985. 11-33. ["The Melancholy of Art". Translated by Jennifer Bajorek. In Selected Writings. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 205-217.]
Spring 2019
- Bachelard, Gaston. La poétique de l'espace. Paris: PUF, 1967. 1-78, 191-214. [The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas. Boston: Beacon, 1969. xv-73, 211-241.]
- Blanchot, Maurice. "L'Idylle", "Le dernier mot", "Après Coup". In Après coup: precédé par Le ressassement éternel. Paris: Minuit, 1983. ["The Idyll", "The Last Word", "After the Fact". Translated by Lydia Davis. In The Station Hill Blanchot Reader. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1999.]
- Blanchot, Maurice. L'entretien infini. Paris: Gallimard, 1969. [The Infinite Conversation. Translated by Susan Hanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 75-79, 211-217, 339-344.]
- Bojesen, Emile. "Conversation as Educational Research". Educational Philosophy and Theory 51.6. 2019. 650-659.
- Cixous, Hélène. Hyperrêve. Paris: Galilée, 2006. [Hyperdream. Translated by Beverly Bie Bahic. Malden MA: Polity, 2009.]
- Neyrat, Frédéric. Atopies. Manifeste pour la philosophie. Caen: Nous, 2014. [Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism. Translated by Walt Hunter and Lindsay Turner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.]
Fall 2018
- Cixous, Hélène. "Le rire de la méduse". L'Arc 61. 1975. 39-54. ["The Laugh of the Medusa". Translated by Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs 1.4. Summer 1976. 875-893.]
- Fanon, Frantz. "De la violence". In Les damnés de la terre. Paris: Fançois Maspero, 1961. ["On Violence". In The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2004.]
- Weil, Simone. Part 3 of L'enracinement. Paris: Gallimard, 1949. [Part 3 of The Need for Roots. Translated by Arthur Wills. New York: Harper & Row, 1952.]
- Marder, Elissa. "Force of Love". Oxford Literary Review 40.2. 2018. 206-220.
- Marder, Elissa. "Force and Translation; Or, the Polymorphous Body of Language". philoSOPHIA 3.1. Winter 2013. 1-18.
Spring 2018
- Serres, Michel. Le contrat naturel. Paris: François Bourin, 1990. 51-84. [The Natural Contract. Translated by Elizabeth MacArthur and William Paulson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 27-50.]
- Stengers, Isabelle. Au temps des catastrophes. Paris: La Découverte, 2009. 23-137. [In Catastrophic Times. Translated by Andrew Goffey. Lüneberg: Open Humanities Press, 2015. 27-105.]
- Latour, Bruno. Face à Gaïa. Paris: La Découverte, 2015. [Facing Gaia. Translated by Cathy Porter. New York: Polity, 2017.]
- Foucault, Michel. L'Herméneutique du sujet. Paris: Seuil, 2001. [The Hermeneutics of the Subject. Translated by Graham Burchell. New York: Picador, 2005.]
Fall 2017
- Sartre, Jean-Paul. "Questions de Méthode" in Critique de la raison dialectique. Paris: Gallimard, 1960. [Search for a Method. Translated by Hazel E. Barnes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.]
- Wahl, Jean. "Subjectivité et transcendance". Bulletin de la Société Française de la Philosophie. 37(5), 1937. 161-211. ["Subjectivity and Transcendence." Translated by Ian Alexander Moore in Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings. Edited by Alan D. Schrift and Ian Alexander Moore. New York: Fordham University Press, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945). Translated by Keith L. Walker. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017. 152-215.]
- Derrida, Jacques. Heidegger: La question de l'être et l'histoire. Paris: Galilée, 2013. 45-83, 263-297. [Heidegger: The Question of Being and History. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 17-46, 178-204.]
- Dastur, Françoise. "Entretien du 3 mars, 2000". In Dominique Janicaud, Heidegger en France II: Entretiens. Paris: Albon Michel, 2001. 62-76. ["Interview of March 3, 2000". In Dominique Janicaud, Heidegger in France. Translated by François Raffoul and David Pettigrew. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 327-336.]
- Dastur, Françoise. Comment vivre avec la mort? Paris: Pleins Feux, 1998. [How are We to Confront Death? Translated by Robert Vallier. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.]
- Cioran, Emil. La tentation d'exister. Paris: Gallimard, 1956. [The Temptation to Exist. Translated by Richard Howard. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1986. 151-164, 206-222.
- Berdayaev, Nicholas. The Meaning of the Creative Act. Translated by Donald A. Lowrie. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. 21-56.
- de Beauvoir, Simone. La Femme rompue. Paris: Gallimard, 1967. [The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. London: Collins, 1969.]
Spring 2017
- Césaire, Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme. Paris: Presence Africaine, 1955. [Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.]
- Césaire, Suzanne. Le Grand camouflage: Écrits de dissidence (1941-1945). Edited by Daniel Maximin. Paris: Seuil, 2009. 29-40, 63-94. [The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945). Translated by Keith L. Walker. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012. 3-10, 25-46.]
- Nardal, Paulette. "The Awakening of Black Consciousness among Black Students." Translated by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Georges Van Den Abbeele. In T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Negritude Women. (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2002. 119-124.
- Nardal, Paulette. Beyond Negritude. Translated by T. Denean Sharpley Whiting. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. 20-99.
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar. "La Voie africaine du socialisme: Essai de définition" in Nation et voie africaine du socialisme. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1961. 93-134. ["The African Road to Socialism: Attempt at a Definition" in On African Socialism. Translated by Mercer Cook. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964. 67-103.]
- Thiam, Awa. La Parole aux negresses. Paris: Denoel, 1978. [Speak Out, Black Sisters (Black Women and Oppression in Africa). Translated by Dorothy S. Blair. Chicago: Research Associates School Times, 1995. 11-15, 30-40, 113-134.]
- Mbembe, Achille. Critique de la raison nègre. Paris: La Decouverte, 2013. [Critique of Black Reason. Translated by Laurent Dubois. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2017.]
Spring 2016
- D'Alembert, Jean. "Discours préliminaire des éditeurs" in Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris: 1751. [Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. Translated by Richard N. Schwab. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.]
- Unknown. "Philosophie" in Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol 12. Paris: 1765. ["Philosophy" in The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Julia Wagner. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015.]
- Voltaire. "Histoire" in Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol 8. Paris: 1765. ["History" in The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Jeremy Caradonna. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006.]
- Montesquieu. De l'esprit des lois. Paris: Société Les Belles Lettres, 1950. 1.I, 11.I-VI, 12.I-IV. [The Spirit of Laws. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. 1.I, 11.I-VI, 12.I-IV.]
- Bayle, Pierre. Pensées divers sur la comète. Paris: Édouard Conély et Cie, 1911. Sections 1-17, 23-30, 100-102, 203-221. [Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet. Translated by Robert C. Bartlett. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. Sections 1-17, 23-30, 100-102, 203-221.]
- Baron D'Holbach. Le Christianisme dévoilé. London: 1767. Lettre d'auteur, Introduction, Chs 1, 3-6, 14. [Christianity Unveiled. Letter from the author, Introduction, Chs 1, 3-6, 14.]
- Suchon, Gabrielle. Traité de la morale et de la politique. Lyon: 1693. ["Treatise on Ethics and Politics" in A Woman who Defends all the Persons of her Sex. Translated by Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 73-106.]
- Deutscher, Penelope. Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
- Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Ch. 1.
Fall 2015
- Saussure, Ferdinand de. Cours de linguistique générale. Paris: Payot, 1995. 23-43, 97-113. [Course in General Linguistics. Translated by Roy Harris. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1986. 8-23, 65-78.]
- Barthes, Roland. Eléments de sémiologie." Communications no.4, 1964. 91-135. [Elements of Semiology. Translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.]
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. "Le champ de l'anthropologie" in Anthropologie structurale II. Paris: Plon, 1973. [The Scope of Anthropology. Translated by Sherry Ortner Paul and Robert A. Paul. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.]
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. "La structure des mythes" in Anthropologie structurale. Paris: Plon, 1958. ["The Structural Study of Myth" in Structural Anthropology. Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. New York: Basic Books, 1963.]
- Piaget, Jean. La structuralisme. Paris: PUF, 1968. 5-16, 101-116 [Structuralism. Translated by Shaninah Maschler. London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1971. 3-16, 122-135.]
- Debaene, Vincent. "Claude Lévi-Strauss aujourd'hui" Europe 1005-1006, 2013. 11-36 ["Lévi-Strauss: What Legacy?" Yale French Studies no. 123, 2013. 14-40.]
- Mannoni, Octave. Psychologie de la colonisation. Paris: Seuil, 1950. Introduction and Chapter 1. [Prospero and Caliban. Translated by Pamela Powesland. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1956. Introduction and Chapter 1.]
- Odier, Charles. L'Angoisse et la pensée magique. Neuchatel: Delachaux et Niestlé, 1947. Introduction. [Anxiety and Magical Thinking. Translated by Mary-Louise Shoelly and Mary-Jane Sherfey. New York: International Universities Press, 1956. Introduction]
- Fanon, Frantz. Peau noire, masques blancs. Paris: Seuil, 1952. Introduction, Chapters 4 and 6. [Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. London: Pluto Press, 1986. Introduction, Chapters 4 and 6.]
- Vergès, Françoise. "Creole Skin, Black Masks: Fanon and Disavowal." Critical Inquiry no.23.3 (Spring 1997). 578-595.
Spring 2015
- Heidegger, Martin "The Question Concerning Technology." Translated by William Lovitt. In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. 3-35.
- Janicaud, Dominique. L'homme va-t-il dépasser l'humaine? Paris: Bayard, 2002. [On the Human Condition. New York: Routledge, 2005.]
- Simondon, Gilbert. "Position du problème de l'ontogénèse" in L'individuation psychique et collective. Paris: Aubier, 1989 and 2007. 9-30. ["The Position of the Problem of Ontogenesis." Translated by Gregory Flanders. Parrhesia no. 7 (2009). 4-16.]
- Simondon, Gilbert. "Mentalité technique." Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger no. 131.3 (2006). 343-357. ["Technical Mentality." Translated by Arne De Boever. Parrhesia no. 7 (2009). 17-27.]
- Latour, Bruno. "«Le groom est en grève. Pour l'amour de Dieu, fermez la porte.»" ["Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts." In Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law (eds.), Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. 225-258.]
- Szendy, Peter. Kant chez les extraterrestres. Paris: Editions Minuit, 2011. [Kant in the Land of the Extraterrestrials. Translated by Will Bishop. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.]
- Szendy, Peter. L'Apocalypse-Cinéma. Paris: Capricci, 2012. [Apocalypse-Cinema. Translated by Will Bishop. New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming.]
- Jankélévitch, Vladimir. Le Pardon. Paris: Editions Montaigne, 1967. 7-19, 156-167. [Forgiveness. Translated by Andrew Kelley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 1-11, 119-128.]
- Jankélévitch, Vladimir. Pardonner? Paris: Le Pavillon, 1971. 11-59 [“Should we Pardon them?” Translated by Ann Hobart. Critical Inquiry 22.3 (1996): 552-572.]
- Kristeva, Julia. “La haine et le pardon, ou De l’abjection à la paranoïa”. In La Haine et le pardon. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 357-373. [“Hatred and Forgiveness, or from Abjection to Paranoia.” In Hatred and Forgiveness. Translated by Jeanine Herman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 183-194.]
Fall 2014
- Cassin, Barbara. "Introduction: Toward a New Topology of Philosophy" in Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. 1-22.
- Cassin, Barbara. "Qui a peur de la sophistique? Contre l'ethical correctness." Le Débat 72.5 (1992). 49-60. ["Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness." Translated by Charles T. Wolfe. In Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. 25-43.]
- Cassin, Barbara. "«Parle si tu es un homme» ou l'exclusion transcendantale." Les Études Philosophiques no. 2 (avril-juin 1988). 145-155. ["Speak if you are a Man, or the Transcendental Exclusion." Translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage. In Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. 44-56.]
- Cassin, Barbara (ed.). Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles Paris: Seuil-Le Robert, 2004. [Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Kristeva, Julia. "L'autre langue ou traduire le sensible" French Studies 52.4 (October 1998). 385-396. ["The Other Language or the Condition of Being Alive." Translated by Barbara Bray, Granville Fields, and Mike Westlake.]
- Wittig, Monique. "Le point de vue, universel ou particulier" in La pensée straight. Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2007. 89-95. ["The Point of View: Universal or Particular?" in The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. 59-67.]
- Bourcier, Marie-Hélène. "Wittig la politique." Preface to La pensée straight. Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2007. ["Wittig la Politique." Translated by Sabrina Draï and Victoria Kopcik. In Namascar Shaktini (ed.) On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political, and Literary Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.]
- Derrida, Jacques. Le monolinguisme de l'autre ou le prothèse de l'origine. Paris: Éditions Galilée, 1996. [Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin. Translated by Patrick Mensah. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.]
- Cassin, Barbara. "Philosophizing in Languages." Translated by Yves Gilonne. In Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. 246-258.
- Cassin, Barbara. "«Assez de vérité pour…» À propos de la Commission Vérité et Réconciliation." La Vérité, edited by B. Van Meenen. Bruxelles: Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, 2005. 63-75. ["'Enough of the Truth for...': On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Translated by Andrew Goffey. In Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. 261-273.]
- Glissant, Edouard. Le discours antillais. Paris: Gallimard, 1981. [Caribbean Discourse. Translated by J. Michael Dash. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.]
- Lacan, Jacques. “L’Instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient ou la raison depuis Freud.” In Ecrits. Paris: Seuil, 1966. 493-528. [“The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud.” In Ecrits. Translated by Bruce Fink. New York: Norton and Company, 2006. 412-441.]
- Lacan, Jacques. “L’étourdit.” Translated by C. Gallagher. The Letter 41 (2009): 31-80 [bilingual edition].
- Kofman, Sarah. L’énigme de la femme. Paris: Galilée, 1980. 11-15, 119-170. [The Enigma of Woman. Translated by Catherine Porter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 11-15, 101-131.]
- Hocquenghem, Guy. Le désir homosexuel. Paris: Fayard, 2000. 61-89, 161-182. [Homosexual Desire. Translated by Daniella Dangoor. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1993. 73-92, 141-150.]
Spring 2014
- Malabou, Catherine, Ontologie de l'accident: Essai sur la plasticité destructrice. Paris: Editions Léo Scheer, 2009. [The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity. Translated by Carolyn Shread. London: Polity, 2012.]
- Bergson, Henri. Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1903. [Matter and Memory. Translated by N. M. Paul and W. S. Palmer. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1990.]
- Deleuze, Gilles. Le Bergsonisme. Paris: PUF, 1966. [Bergsonism. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York: Zone Books, 1988.]
- Diagne, Souleymane Bachir. Léopold Sédar Senghor: L'art africain comme philosophie. Paris: Riveneuve, 2007. [African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude. Translated by Chike Jeffers. New York: Seagull Books, 2011.]
- Mauss, Marcel, Essai sur le don. In Sociologie et anthropologie. 4th ed. Paris: PUF, 1968. [The Gift. Translated by W. D. Halls. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.]
- Bataille, Georges. La Part maudite: Essai d'économie générale. Paris: Editions Minuit, 1949. [The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Zone Books, 1988.]
- Derrida, Jacques. Donner le temps. 1: La fausse monnaie. Paris: Editions Galilée, 1991. [Given Time. 1: Counterfeit Money. Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.]
- Marion, Jean-Luc. "L'inconditionée ou la force du don" in Certitudes négatives. Paris: Grasset, 2010. ["The Reason of the Gift" in The Essential Writings. Edited by Kevin Hart. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.]
- Irigaray, Luce. Ce Sexe qui n'en est pas un. Paris: Editions Minuit, 1977. [This Sex which is not One. Translated by Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.]
- Cixous, Hélène. "Sorties" in Cixous and Clément, La Jeune née. Paris: Union Générale d'Editions, 1975. ["Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays" in Cixous and Clément, The Newly Born Woman. Translated by Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.]
- Hénaff, Marcel. "Les paradoxes de la grâce" in Le prix de la vérité. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2002. ["The Paradoxes of Grace" in The Price of Truth.
Translated by Jean-Louis Morhange. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.] - Ricoeur, Paul. "La lutte pour la reconnaissance et les états de paix" in Parcours de la reconnaissance. Paris: Editions Stock, 2004. ["The Struggle for
Recognition and States of Peace" in The Course of Recognition. Translated by David Pellauer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.] - Falque, Emmanuel. Métamorphose de la finitude. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2004. [The Metamorphosis of Finitude. Translated by George Hughes. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.]
- Canguilhem, Georges, La connaissance de la vie. Paris: Librairie J. Vrin, 1965. [Knowledge of Life. Edited by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers. Translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.]
- Kristeva, Julia. Soleil Noir: Depression et melancolie. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1987. [Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. Translated by Leon Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.]
- Deleuze, Gilles, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1981. [Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Translated by Daniel W. Smith. London: Continuum, 2003.]
- Kojève, Alexandre. Introduction a la Lecture de Hegel. Paris: Gallimard, 1947. [Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit. Assembled by Raymond Queneau. Edited by Allan Bloom. Translated by James H. Nichols, Jr. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969.]
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- Levinas, Emmanuel. "Écrit et Sacré" in Introduction á la Philosophie de la Religion. Ed. Francis Kaplan et Jean-Louis Veillard-Baron. Latour-Maubourg: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1989. [English translation by group member Jordan Glass.]
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- Akroun, Mohammed. Ouvertures sur l'Islam. Paris: Editions J. Grancher, 1989 [Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers. Translated and edited by Robert D. Lee. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.]
Fall 2012
- Lichtenberger, Henri. La Philosophie de Nietzsche. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1901. [The Gospel of Superman: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche]
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Le Visible et l'invisible. Paris: Gallimard, 1964 [The Visible and the Invisible. Ed. Claude Lefort. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968.]
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- Glissant, Edouard, Poétique de la Relation. Paris: Gallimard, 1990. [Poetics of Relation. Translated by Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.]
- Meillassoux, Quentin. "Potentialité et virtualité" Failles 2 (2006) ["Potentiality and Virtuality" Collapse II. Oxford: Urbanomic, 2007]
- Diagne, Souleymane Bachir. "Ce que j'ai appris de mes soeurs philosophes à propos de la philosophie" Revue des Femmes Philosophes 1 (2001): 12-16. ["What I learned from my philosophy sisters about philosophy." Women Philosophers' Journal 1(2001): 12-16.]
- Benmakhlouf, Ali. "Qui est homme, qui est femme? Une certitude sans critère" Revue des Femmes Philosophes 1 (2001): 17-23. ["Who is man, who is woman?" Women Philosophers' Journal 1(2001): 17-24.]
- Cassin, Barbara, "La perméabilité des genres. Femme/philosophie: une identité stratégique" Revue des Femmes Philosophes 1 (2001): 25-37 ["Genres and Genders. Women/philosophy: identity as strategy" Women Philosophers' Journal 1 (2001): 25-37]
- Henry, Michel. La Barbarie. Paris: Quadrige/Puf, 1987 [Barbarism. Translated by Scott Davidson. London: Continuum, 2012.]
Spring 2012
- Fanon, Frantz. Les damnés de la terre. Paris: Francois Maspero, 1961. [The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2004.]
- Bergson, Henri. Introduction å la métaphysique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011. [An Introduction to Metaphysics. Translated by T.E. Hulme. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999.]
- Blanchot, Maurice. La part du feu. Paris: Gallimard, 1949. [The Work of Fire. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.]
- Derrida, Jacques. Donner la Mort. Paris: Galilée, 1999. [The Gift of Death. Translated by David Wills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.]
- Irigary, Luce, Amante Marine de Friedrich Nietzsche, Paris: Minuit, 1980 [Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Gillian C. Gill. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991]
- Badiou, Alain. Conditions. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1992. [Conditions. Translated by Steven Corcoran. London: Continuum, 2008.]