Christopher Fynsk
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Christopher Fynsk (born 1952) is Head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen and Director of the Centre for Modern Thought. He is well known for his work relating the political and literary aspects of continental philosophy.
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[edit] Career
Fynsk received his doctorate from the Department of Romance Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1981, following a Diplôme d’Etudes Avancées in Philosophy from the University of Strasbourg. He taught at the latter from 1985 to 1987, and at Binghamton University from 1981 to 2004. In 2004 he moved to the University of Aberdeen to join the faculty of the School of Language and Literature, and form the Centre for Modern Thought.
[edit] Interests
Fynsk's work is closely involved with that of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Lévinas, and several contemporary artists, including Francis Bacon and Salvatore Puglia.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
- Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
- Language and Relation: …that there is language (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).
- Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1986; 2nd edn., 1993).
