Jean-Jacques Lecercle

 12.30 – 2pm | Thursday 29 November 2007
Room J116 (Cañada Blanch Room), Cowdray House, European Institute, LSE

Speaker
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Professor of English at the University of Paris X, Nanterre

Chair
Alan Montefiore, President of the Forum for European Philosophy

Jean-Jacques Lecercle works in philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and Victorian literature, especially nonsense literature.

He was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and has taught most of his working life at Nanterre, with a period of three years (1999-2002) as Research Professor at the University of Cardiff.

He is the author of The Violence of Language (Routledge, 1991), Philosophy of Nonsense (Routledge 1994), Interpretation as Pragmatics (Macmillan, 1999) Deleuze and Language (Palgrave 2002), The Force of Language (with Denise Riley, Palgrave 2002), and A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Brill, 2006).

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