Jane O’Grady, Sir Roger Scruton obituary, The Guardian, 15 January 2020 Philosopher, writer and political thinker with controversial views on education, hunting and architecture Roger Scruton, who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both …
French philosopher Michel Serres dies at 88 France 24 02/06/2019 See also this link and this link (en français) The philosopher, writer and academic Michel Serres died on Saturday June 1 2019 at the age of 88. His publishing house Le Pommier made the announcement on Saturday evening. “He died peacefully at 7pm, surrounded by …
Gary Gutting (1942-2019), 3am magazine, First posted: Sunday, January 20th, 2019. Gary Gutting, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Gutting worked on philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, contemporary French philosophy, and contemporary analytic philosophy. He was well-known for his substantial work in public philosophy, authoring several columns …
Editor: Foucault is behind Simone de Beauvoir Claude Lanzmann, director of Holocaust film ‘Shoah’, dies at 92. CGTN, 6 July 2018 French filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose landmark 1985 documentary “Shoah” revealed the horrors of the Holocaust over nine hours of chilling eyewitness accounts, died in Paris on Thursday aged 92.
Editor’s note: John Sturrock was an early commentator French theory and Foucault, cf his 1980 edited book Structuralism and Since. See this article in The Times – but needs a subscription. John Sturrock, 1930–2017 ADRIAN TAHOURDIN, Times Literary Supplement, September 5 2017 Anyone who met John Sturrock could not but be struck by how English …
Essay on the death of Hayden White Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, March 9, 2018. The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday. Scott McLemee takes him out of the poststructuralist pigeonhole. Pursuing such a line of thought meant turning to sources outside …
Hubert Dreyfus (1929-2017), Daily Nous, April 24 2017 An obituary of Hubert Dreyfus by Sean D. Kelly, Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Hubert Dreyfus, a renowned philosopher and a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley for almost 50 years, died early Saturday morning [22 April]. He was 87 years old. …
Sandra Lee Bartky, at the Vanguard of Feminist Philosophy, Dies at 81 By Sam Roberts, New York Times 23 October 2016 Sandra Lee Bartky, an influential feminist philosopher who argued that women were subconsciously submitting to men by accepting an unnatural cultural standard for the ideal female body — what she called the “tyranny of …
French philosopher Andre Glucksmann dies at 78, BBC News site See also The Guardian En français: Libération Andre Glucksmann, one of the most prominent figures in French philosophy, has died aged 78. An associate of Jean-Paul Sartre, he helped provide the intellectual underpinning for the student and worker revolts of May 1968. He was originally …
Gary S. Becker, Nobel-winning scholar of economics and sociology, 1930-2014 Obituary by William Harms, UChicago News, May 4 2014 Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, AM’53, PhD’55, made historic changes to the study of economics and the social sciences, combining disciplines to understand decisions in everyday life, while spawning rich new questions for scholars in diverse …
