Cillian Ó Fathaigh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1644918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cillian Ó Fathaigh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cillian Ó |
| FAMILY NAME | Fathaigh |
| SIGNATURE | FATHAIGH C Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7469-9403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘The New Bourdieu’
This article presents a new account of the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida. Often presented in opposition to one another, I argue that their work together in the 1990s challenges this orthodox view. This article draws on their shared political engagements against repressive migration laws in France, which included co-founding institutions, writing shared newspaper articles and appearing together on radio and television. I…
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un
This article argues that Jacques Derrida’s Politics of Friendship presents an implicit but significant critique of Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. In Blanchot’s text, the Other disrupts any sense of fusional or essentialist community. But Derrida criticises Blanchot for neglecting the need to negotiate my responsibility to infinite others. Derrida proposes a logic of the plus un, playing on this double meaning in French, where a need…
What is Proper to a Culture
This article considers sociocultural identity and identification in the work of Jacques Derrida. Though Derrida's philosophy is often presented as a source of inspiration for identity politics, Derrida's precise position on identity is far from evident. This discussion will unpack his account of identity through a dialogue with the work of Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate in economics and moral philosopher, known for his capabilities approach. In sp…
Responding to the Covid-19 Care Home Crisis
This article attends to Beauvoir’s concept of the image in The Coming of Age , Les Belles Images , and A Walk through the Land of Old Age . The author argues that the experience of being an older adult emerges primarily from the available social images of old age rather than from the aging body. This view reveals problems with the discourse around older people that fueled the COVID -19 care home crisis and that persist in our response to the cris…
Derrida's Politics of Friendship
25 years after the publication of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l’amitié, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Emerging out of Derrida’s seminars in the late 1980s and 1990s, Politics of Friendship critiques fraternity as a model of political community and its prominence throughout a range of central figures in the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Plato, K…
Critical Institutions
In this article, I consider the role of institutions in Jacques Derrida's political engagement. In spite of Derrida's significant involvement with political causes throughout his life, his engagements have received little sustained attention, and this is particularly true of his work with institutions. I turn to two such cases, the Collège international de philosophie and the Parlement international des écrivains and argue that these represent an…
Kofman's Affirmative Creation
This article considers Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Molière's Dom Juan in 'The art of not paying one's debts'. It argues that this neglected text addresses important questions of moral debt and that Dom Juan's failure to reject all debt is of central importance. Building on this, the article shows how Kofman proposes a form of affirmative creation which involves the rejection of a sexual economy shared by Kant, Freud and Dom Juan. It then tur…
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Derrida's Politics of Friendship
25 years after the publication of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l’amitié, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Emerging out of Derrida’s seminars in the late 1980s and 1990s, Politics of Friendship critiques fraternity as a model of political community and its prominence throughout a range of central figures in the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Plato, K…
Critical Institutions
In this article, I consider the role of institutions in Jacques Derrida's political engagement. In spite of Derrida's significant involvement with political causes throughout his life, his engagements have received little sustained attention, and this is particularly true of his work with institutions. I turn to two such cases, the Collège international de philosophie and the Parlement international des écrivains and argue that these represent an…
Kofman's Affirmative Creation
This article considers Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Molière's Dom Juan in 'The art of not paying one's debts'. It argues that this neglected text addresses important questions of moral debt and that Dom Juan's failure to reject all debt is of central importance. Building on this, the article shows how Kofman proposes a form of affirmative creation which involves the rejection of a sexual economy shared by Kant, Freud and Dom Juan. It then tur…
Responding to the Covid-19 Care Home Crisis
This article attends to Beauvoir’s concept of the image in The Coming of Age , Les Belles Images , and A Walk through the Land of Old Age . The author argues that the experience of being an older adult emerges primarily from the available social images of old age rather than from the aging body. This view reveals problems with the discourse around older people that fueled the COVID -19 care home crisis and that persist in our response to the cris…
Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un
This article argues that Jacques Derrida’s Politics of Friendship presents an implicit but significant critique of Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. In Blanchot’s text, the Other disrupts any sense of fusional or essentialist community. But Derrida criticises Blanchot for neglecting the need to negotiate my responsibility to infinite others. Derrida proposes a logic of the plus un, playing on this double meaning in French, where a need…
What is Proper to a Culture
This article considers sociocultural identity and identification in the work of Jacques Derrida. Though Derrida's philosophy is often presented as a source of inspiration for identity politics, Derrida's precise position on identity is far from evident. This discussion will unpack his account of identity through a dialogue with the work of Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate in economics and moral philosopher, known for his capabilities approach. In sp…
‘The New Bourdieu’
This article presents a new account of the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida. Often presented in opposition to one another, I argue that their work together in the 1990s challenges this orthodox view. This article draws on their shared political engagements against repressive migration laws in France, which included co-founding institutions, writing shared newspaper articles and appearing together on radio and television. I…
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · Politics (3 works)