Department of Philosophy

• B.A., Philosophy, Dean's List, Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI), 1978
• Ph.D., 1988, M.A., 1982, Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)

• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

• Graduate seminar on Foucault's History of Madness.

• Author of Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2011), 296 pages.
  
  
• Co-translator (with Heath Massey) of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s course notes, 1955-56 L’institution, La passivité, as Institution and Passivity (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2010), xxxvi, 277 pages.

• Author of This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), xvi, 171 pages.

• Co-editor (with Ted Toadvine) of The Merleau-Ponty Reader (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007), xvi, 490 pages.

Forthcoming Publications:

Books

• Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy: Toward the Outside, contracted with Indiana University Press. The manuscript is complete, submitted, and under review, with a publication date in 2011.

• New English translation of Jacques Derrida’s La voix et le phénomène, for Northwestern University Press. Translation is delivered, with a 7800 “translator’s introduction.” Estimated publication date in 2011.

• Editor of the Acumen History of Continental Philosophy, Volume 4, Phenomenology: Responses and Developments (1930-1960), general editor: Alan Schrift (Durham, England: Acumen Publishing). Volume is delivered, with a 6000 word “volume editor’s introduction,” publication date in October 2010.

Articles

• “Deconstruction” (5000 words), for the Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, edited by Sebastian Luft and Soren Overgaard, essay submitted, forthcoming fall 2011.

• “Anachronism and Powerlessness: An Essay on Postmodernism,” in New Directions in the Philosophy of Life, a volume edited by Scott Campbell and Paul Bruno, essay submitted.

• “Philosophy and Reality: Reflection on Cora Diamond’s Works,” submitted to Philosophical Investigations, accepted for publication.

• “Intuition and Duration: An Introduction to Bergson’s Introduction to Metaphysics,” in Phenomenology and Bergsonism, editor, Michael Kelly (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming in August, 2010).

•  “The Postmodern Self: An Essay on Anarchism and Powerlessness,” for The Oxford Handbook to the Self, editor, Shaun Gallagher (Oxford University Press, 2011).

• “A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as the Solution to the Problem of the Worst” (long version), submitted to Political Phenomenology (Springer).

• The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, co-editor with John Nale, contracted with Cambridge University Press. Estimated publication date: 2012.

• A Companion to Derrida, co-editor with Zeynep Direk. Under contract with Blackwell Press. Estimated publication date: 2012.

• Never Will There Be Enough Written: an Essay on the Animality and Human Nature in Deleuze and Guattari, for Columbia University Press. This manuscript is approximately 25% complete.

Chapter in Books

• “Deleuze and Phenomenology” for The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze, edited by Daniel Smith and Henry Somers-Hall.

• “Animals must Hide: An Extension of Foucault’s History of Madness,” for Foucault and Animals, edited by Dinesh Wadiwel & Matthew Chrulew.

• “Auto-Affection and Becoming (Part III): Is Violence Necessary?” for New Directions in Biopower, edited by Vernon Cisney and Nicolae Morar.

Len Lawlor discusses his work on the Digital Dialogue.