Dr Ian James
College:
Downing College
Positions:
University Lecturer
Department of French
Postal Address:
Downing College
Regent Street
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1DQ
Email:
irj20@cam.ac.ukPhone:
(+44) (0)1223 334852
Fax:
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Ian James specialises in twentieth-century and contemporary French literature and philosophy. He is the author of
Pierre
Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Oxford Legenda, 2000),
The Fragmentary Demand:
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy (Stanford University Press, 2006) and
Paul Virilio (Routledge, 2007). He is also co-editor of
Whispers of the Flesh: Essays in Memory of Pierre Klossowski (
Diacritics, Spring 2005) and
Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (
Oxford Literary Review, vol. 27, 2005). He is currently working on a project which examines the way in which the question of technology has been taken up in recent French philosophy.
