Rodolphe Gasché (born 1938,

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) is a Luxembourgian-born American philosopher. He holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of

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at the

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Career

Gasché obtained his doctorate from the

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, where he has also taught. Before going to Buffalo he taught at

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Work

Early in his career, Gasché translated major essays of

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into German. After moving from Paris to Baltimore to take up a post with Johns Hopkins University, Gasché was among a group of young intellectuals who authored pathbreaking articles in the journal "Glyph". ''The Tain of the Mirror'' (Cambridge, MA: 1986) located the thought of Derrida within the philosophical tradition (particularly of phenomenology).

Bibliography

*Geophilosophy: On Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's ''What Is Philosophy?'', Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2014, pp. 141. *''Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology'' (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012). *Imada Nai Sekai Wo Motomete: Heidegger, Derrida, Löwith, trans. Hiroki Yoshikuni, Tokyo: Getsuyosha Limited, 2012 *''The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation'' (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2011). *''Europe, Or The Infinite Task'' (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008). *''Views and Interviews: On "Deconstruction" in America'' (Aurora, Colorado: The Davies Group Publishers, 2007). *''The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy'' (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). *''The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics'' (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). *''Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation'' (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). *''The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 1998). *''Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 1994). *''The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 1986). *''System und Metaphorik in der Philosophie von Georges Bataille'' (Bern: Lang, 1978). *''Die hybride Wissenschaft'' (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1973).

References

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