email: hobson@mjeanneret.com

Publications

Books

• Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, 1998. London: Routledge

Edition

• With Simon Harvey, also at QM: edition of Denis Diderot, Lettre sur les aveugles, Lettre sur les sourds et muets, 2000. Paris: Garnier Flammarion

Articles
Diderot and the eighteenth century

• "Spasme, pantomime et parataxe dans le Neveu de Rameau", Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 1984, p. 197-213
• "Jaques le fataliste and the art of the probable", in Diderot: les dernieres années, Edinburgh, 1985, p. 180 -196
• "Déictique, dialectique dans le Neveu de Rameau ", in Etudes sur “Le Neveu de Rameau" et "Le Paradoxe sur le comédien" de Denis Diderot, Actes du Colloque organisé à l'Université de Paris V II les 15 et 16 novembre 1991, textes réunis par Georges Benrekassa, Marc Buffat, Pierre Chartie, Cahiers Textuel , Paris, 1992, p.11-20
• "Nexus effectivus and nexus finalis : Causality in Rousseau's Deuxième Discours ", in Rousseau et le dix-huitième siècle, p. 225-250, see above
• "What's wrong with St. Peter's: Diderot, analogy, architecture", in Skill, Technology, and Enlightenment, ed. Bo Göranzon, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 1994, p. 303-310. A translation by Leif Janzon into Swedish "Diderot, implicit kunskap och arkitektur: upplevda analogier", Dialoger, Stockholm, 1994.p.103-132.
• "Philosophie et style rococo", in Immaginazione et conoscenza nel settecento italiano e francese, a cura di Sabina Verhulst, proceedings of the conference at the Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 9 and 10 March, 2001, 2002, p. 53-59
• "La physionomie: le portrait d'un exemple", in Le Metamorfosi del ritratto, a cura di Renzo Zorzi, Florence, Leo S. Olschki editore, 2002, p. 203-219` (a lecture given at the Fondazione Cini, Venice, 1995)
• "Measuring statues, or, special neutrality", in Paragraph: Editors' Anniversary Issue, 27, number 1, 2004, p. 33-49

Jacques Derrida

• "History Traces", in Post-Structuralism and the Question of History, ed. Attridge, Bennington, Young, Cambridge, CUP, 1986, p. 101-115. (Translated into Japanese, in Gendai Shiso [Modern Philosophy]. February 1989)
• "Characteristic Violence; or, The physiognomy of style", in Violence, Identity and Self-Determination, ed. H.de Vries, and S. Weber, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997, p. 57-79, notes p. 353-359
• "Mimesis, presentation, representation", in Derrida and the Humanities, ed. Tom Cohen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Translated into French for Europe, no. 901, mai 2004, p. 118 - 28.)
• "I am not not a philosopher" - Publication in a Chinese translation of my lectureon Derrida at the People's University of Beijing, in a volume on modern European philosophy

Miscellaneous

• (On Jane Austen) "Knightley as a screen near us", in Women Voice Men: gender in European culture, ed. Maya Slater, 1997. Exeter: Intellect

Translations

• The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy, 2003. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. A translation of Derrida's first work, his "dissertation", written when he was 26 but first published in 1990.

Marks of esteem

• Fellow of the British Academy, 1999
• CBE 2002
• Member of the jury senior for 1999 and 2000 in the Institut universitaire de France, which distributes major grants to academics across all subjects.
• Member, and then elected Président, Conseil scientifique du College international de philosophie, Paris, 1994-1999
• Invited Lecturer, Université de Paris VII, March-May, 1997
• To be invited Professor, autumn 2005, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
• Then Freehling Visiting Professor, Spring 2006, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Website Links

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