Rodolphe Gasché
Rodolphe Gasché holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.
Career
Gasché obtained his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin, where he has also taught. Before coming to Buffalo he taught at the Johns Hopkins Univerity.
Work
Gasché is well known for his work on Jacques Derrida, placing his thought within the philosophical tradition at a time when his Anglophone reception was largely dominated by literary theory. He has also written extensively on other philosophical and literary topics, including the work of Georges Bataille, Paul de Man, Martin Heidegger, and Immanuel Kant.
Bibliography
- Die hybride Wissenschaft (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1973).
- System und Metaphorik in der Philosophie von Georges Bataille (Bern: Lang, 1978).
- The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 1986).
- Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 1994).
- The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man (Harvard, 1998).
- Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation (Stanford, 1999).
- The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics (Stanford, 2003).
- The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).