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Marcel HÉNAFF - Agrégation de Philosophie (Paris) , Ph.D. (University of Copenhagen)

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Primary Office: LIT 329
Primary Phone: (858) 534-2396
Email: mhenaff@ucsd.edu

Professor, French Section ; Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science: Continental Philosophy; Cultural Anthropology; Political Philosophy; Narrative Forms; Visual Arts; Theater; Architecture and Urbanism; Cultural Cognition

Selected Publications:

Books:

Le Don des philosophes, Paris, L’Herne, in press

Le Passeur  de sens,  Paris: Perrin, Tempus, 2008.

La Ville qui vient. Paris: L’Herne, 2008.

The Price of the Truth: Gift, Money, Philosophy, forthcoming  Stanford U Press, [Orig,Le Prix de la Vérité: Le don, l’argent, la philosophieParis: Editions du Seuil, 2002; Grand Prix de Philosophie French Academy.-  Italian trans. 2006.

Public Space and Democracy. Ed. with Tracy Strong.University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology. University of Minnesota Press, 1998.  French versions 1991 and 2000;  Russian trans.  in  press.

Sade, the Invention of the Libertine Body. University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Original French version 1978; Spanish trans. 1980; Russian trans. 2005.

Journals - special issues:

“Politics on  Stage.” Editor. Substance 80 (fall 1996).

“Passions et Politique.” Co-editor and presentation, pp. 5-6. Rue Descartes 12.13 (spring 1995).

« Lévi-Strauss: nature, langage, signes, symbolisme » Ed. Journal Philosophie,, # 82 Summer 2008

Articles:

« Gift, Market and Social  Justice » R. Gotoh & P. Dumouchel Ed. Cambridge  U P,  2008

«Global Terror, Global Vengeance »  Substance # 115, vol.37; Ed. R. Doran, Public culture after  9/11,  2008

“La condition brisée des langues: diversité humaine, altérité et traduction.” Esprit (mars- avril 2006): 64-88.

“Gift Exchange, Play and Deception.” Deception in Markets. Ed. C. Gerschlager. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2004. 323-35.

“Religious Ethics, Gift Exchange and Capitalism.”European Journal of Sociology 3 (2004): 293-324.

“Remarques sur la Règle d’or. Ricoeur et la question de la réciprocité.” Cahiers de l’Herne 16 (2004): 326-337.

“La dette de sang et l’exigence de justice.” Victimes, violences, vengeances.  Ed. Paul Dumouchel. Laval:  Presses de  l’Université de Laval, 2001.

“Utopia Latina, American Dream.” Utopía y experiencia en la idea americana. Ed. E. Torres-Cuevas. La Habana: Ediciones Imagen Contemporanea, 1999. 1-20.

“The Naked Terror.” Substance  # 86 (Fall 1998): 5-33.

“Of Stones, Angels and Humans: Serres and the Global City.” Substance  # 83 (1997): 59-80.

“The Stage of Power.”Substance  # 80 (Fall 1996): 7-29.

“The Cannibalistic City: Rousseau, the Large Number and the Abuse of Social Bond.” Substance  63 (1992).