Continental European Philosophy
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Daniel Smith is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh 2012), the co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012, with Henry Somers Hall), and has translated, from the French, books by Gilles Deleuze (Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Essays Critical and Clinical), Pierre Klossowski (Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle), Isabelle Stengers (The Invention of Modern Science), Michel Serres (Thumbelina), and Raymond Ruyer (Cybernetics and the Origin of Information). He is the co-director of “The Deleuze Seminars” project (deleuze.cla.purdue.edu), which is translating Deleuze’s seminar lectures and is supported by grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities. He is currently working on a book entitled "Technicity and Thought."
"I mainly work on figures in the German Continental tradition: Hegel, Heidegger, and Critical Theory. Within that tradition I have broad interests running the gamut from political theory to the philosophy of nature and theories of space and time."