Biography

 

Cillian Ó Fathaigh

Cillian Ó Fathaigh

  • Alumni
  • Ireland
  • 2014 Mphil European Literature and Culture
    2015 PhD French
  • St John's College

I am a Research Fellow in the department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where I specialise in post-WWII Francophone philosophy and intellectual history.

I am also co-PI on the Digital Public Space Research Network: funded by Una Europa and the Polish Agency for Academic Exchange, this is a collaboration between UCM, The University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven.

Previously, I was a Research Fellow on the Spaces of Translation Project, jointly funded by the British (AHRC) and German National Research (DFG) Foundations. I have also been: a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for History of Ideas at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan; a Postdoctoral Affiliate at the University of Cambridge; and, a Lecteur at the ENS de Lyon.

Some Recent Work:

(1) An article on different conceptions of political community and democracy in 1980s French philosophy and its relation to the rise of the far-right: https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453722111490

(2) An article on the neglected Jewish philosopher, Sarah Kofman: https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2021.0351

(3) A book chapter on friendship in Montaigne, Kant and Levinas: https://doi.org/10.17613/3wm1-n260

(4) An article on Jacques Derrida's ideas of institutions and political engagements: https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2021.0264