John McKeane: Bibliography (translations, reviews, videos, other texts)

Details of my main publications (books, articles, etc.) can be found at my University of Reading profile. Below are details of translations, book reviews, and other writings:

Translations


§  Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, ‘Altus, en latin, dit à la fois le haut et le bas…’ in Cosmin Toma (ed.), Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).

 

§ with Sam Ferguson, as translators from French and sub-titlers of film: François Lagarde and Christine Baudillon, Alexandre Kojève: In Full Knowledge (Montpellier : Hors œil films, 2021). Forthcoming.  

 

§  with Jacob Bates-Firth: Sarah Kofman, ‘And Yet it Quakes! (Nietzsche and Voltaire)’ in Paragraph, 44:1 (March 2021). In press. 

 

§  Maurice Blanchot, ‘Thomas l’obscur (1941) – Chapter I’ in French Studies Bulletin, 41:153 (January        2020), 1-4. 

 

§  Christophe Bident, Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography (New York, Fordham U.P., 2018), 632 pp / 230,000 words.

 

§  Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Patience’ in Daniele Rugo, Philosophy and the Patience of Film in Cavell and Nancy (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016), pp. xiii-xiv.

 

§  (from Italian, translation editor): Alessia Zorloni, The Economics of Contemporary Art: Markets, Strategies and Stardom (Berlin: Springer, 2013), xv + 182pp.

 

§  Jean-Luc Nancy, Adoration (the Deconstruction of Christianity, II) (New York: Fordham U.P., 2012), 136 pp, including translator’s preface.

 

§  5 chapters in Various, Re-Treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy (New York: Fordham U.P., 2012), 404 pp.

 

§  6 chapters in Various, From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: Belgian Modernity in the Making (Oxford: Legenda, 2007), 200 pp.

 

Book Reviews

  • ‘The bud equals the flower: Review of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes: Writing the Political’ in Barthes Studies, 9 (2023).      

  • 'Review of Jacques Derrida, trans. by Wills and Bennington, Clang' in French Studies (2021).  In press.
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  • ‘Review of Leslie Hill, Blanchot politique: sur une réflexion jamais interrompue’ in French Studies (2021). In press.    
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  • ‘Review of Sarah Hickmott, Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou’ in Modern Language Review, 116:3 (October 2021). In press.
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  • ‘Review of Jacob Bittner, The Emergence of Literature: an Archaeology of Modern Literary Theory’ in French Studies (2021). In press. 
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  • ‘Review of Leslie Hill, Nancy, Blanchot: a Serious Controversy’ in Times Literary Supplement, 6102 (March 13 2020), 33.
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  • ‘Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis’ in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Johns Hopkins U.P.), 53:1 (Spring 2020), 502-04.
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  • ‘Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Phrase, trans. by Leslie Hill’ in French Studies, 74:1 (January 2020), 76-77.
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  • ‘Review of Christopher Fynsk, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s ‘Phrase’: Infancy, Survival’ in French Studies, 72:1 (January 2018), 135.
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  • ‘Review of Maurice Blanchot, A World in Ruins, trans. by Michael Holland’ in French Studies, 71:3 (July 2017), 450.
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  • ‘Review of Leon Sachs, The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film’ in French Studies, 69:1 (January 2015), 130.
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  • ‘Review of Mark Hewson, Blanchot and Literary Criticism’, in Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State U.P.), 51:3 (2014), 9-12.
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  • ‘Review of Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in The Guardian (15 May 2013).
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  • ‘Review of Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, trans. by Zakir Paul’ published online in April 2011 at Espace Maurice Blanchot (France): https://www.blanchot.fr/fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=271&Itemid=40
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  • ‘Review of Alison Scott-Baumann, Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion’ in French Studies, 64:4 (October 2010), 517.
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  • ‘Review of David Pettigrew and François Raffoul (eds.), French Interpretations of Heidegger’ in French Studies, 64:2 (April 2010), 229-30.

Videos

- 'Extremism in France' (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4kjnrK8ROw

- ‘L’Étranger d’Albert Camus’ (2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmgFgTDRqXQ

- ‘What do we do with Heidegger?’ (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4FDqEvk0c&feature=youtu.be

- ‘French Popular Music and Society’ module introduction (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvdOnWY4dg

- ‘Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy’ conference (2019): https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/culture-language-and-literature/will-truth-sarah-kofman-and-relief-philosophy

- ‘What is Comparative Literature?’ module introduction (2019): https://www.facebook.com/134064413299535/videos/610017289453039

- ‘Who is the Queen of the Sciences? Curricular Interdisciplinarity and the French Baccalaureate’ (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiS7VJ_qS8&feature=youtu.be

- ‘How to Think in French’ early module overview (2016): https://youtu.be/AK4-l1awBpo

- ‘Sophocles / Hölderlin / Lacoue-Labarthe’ (2013): https://youtu.be/i8l4fflqvbM


Other Writings

§  ‘Kofman and Nietzsche on Life Itself’ at Oxford TORCH blog (2018).

 

§  ‘Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’ commissioned for Oxford Bibliographies Online, peer-reviewed (2017).

 

§  ‘Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’ commissioned for The Literary Encyclopedia (2016).

 

§  ‘It is early Monday morning…’ commissioned piece for artist Catherine Street (National Collection of Scotland), Your Body of Objects (Edinburgh: Royal College of Surgeons, 2013), pp. 39-42.

 

§   ‘L’absence de livre à venir’ (2010) at Espace Maurice Blanchot (France) : https://www.blanchot.fr/fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=40



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