Christopher Ingebreth Fynsk (born August 30, 1952) is an American philosopher. He is Professor and Dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the

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, Switzerland and Professor Emeritus at the

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. He is well known for his work relating the political and literary aspects of continental philosophy. Fynsk's work is closely involved with that of

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and several contemporary artists, including

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and Salvatore Puglia.

Career

Fynsk received his doctorate from the Department of Romance Studies at

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in 1981, following a Diplôme d’Etudes Avancées in Philosophy from the

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. His supervisor at Johns Hopkins was

René Girard René Noël Théophile Girard (; ; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the aut ...

, while at Strasbourg he worked with

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ( , ; 6 March 1940 – 28 January 2007) was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator. Lacoue-Labarthe published several influential works with his friend Jean-Luc Nancy. Lacoue-Labarthe wa ...

and

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

. Fynsk taught at the latter university from 1985 to 1987, and at Binghamton University from 1981 to 2004. Since 2003 he teaches at the

, Switzerland. In 2004 he moved to the

to join the faculty of the School of Language and Literature, and form the Centre for Modern Thought.

Bibliography

*''Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing'' (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013). *''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). Jacques Derrida y las Humanidades, Artículo: Derrida y la filosofía: Actos de Compromiso' (Siglo XXI, 2005).

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