François Raffoul

François Raffoul received his doctorate at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in 1995 and is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University.

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A student of Jacques Derrida, Raffoul is the author, editor, and translator of numerous works on Martin Heidegger and contemporary French philosophy, including Jacques Lacan, Dominique Janicaud, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Juan-David Nasio. His research has focused on continental theories of subjectivity and in particular its ethical dimensions. He has emphasized the role of responsibility and ethics in Heidegger's thought and revitilizing the phenomenological concept of facticity.

Heidegger and the Subject (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1999)
A Chaque fois mien (Paris, France: Galilée, Spring 2004)
Disseminating Lacan (co-editor with David Pettigrew) (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996)
Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (co-editor with David Pettigrew) (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002)
Rethinking Facticity (co-editor with Eric Sean Nelson) (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008)
French Interpretations of Heidegger (co-editor with David Pettigrew) (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008)

"Being and the Other: Ethics and Ontology in Heidegger and Levinas." Addressing Levinas (Northwestern University Press, 2005)
"The Possibility of the Im-possible: Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility." Bulletin de la Société Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Vol. XIV, no. 1, Spring 2004
"Heidegger and the Origins of Responsibility." Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002)
"On Hospitality, Between Ethics and Politics: Reading Derrida's Adieu à Emmanuel Levinas", in Research in Phenomenology. Fall 1998.
"The Subject of the Welcome." Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society of Hermeneutics, Fall 1998.