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Experienced Fellow

Gavin Rae

Gavin Rae

Doctorate from:
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Department at UC3M:
Humanities: Philosophy, Languages, and Literary Theory

E-mail: gavin.rae@uc3m.es

CONEX Fellow since 11/09/15

Project

The project Sovereignty and Law: Between Ethics and Politics undertakes a philosophical inquiry into the meaning of and relationship between the ethical and political spheres of social existence through an analysis of a number of related concepts including sovereignty, law, violence, evil, and foundations. Through a historically-orientated and textually-based methodology, the aim is to show that different conceptions of the ethical-political relationship are possible with each being grounded in a particular semiotic construction that, far from being universal and ahistoric, is culturally specific, created from different power relations, and built to give meaning to reality. By demonstrating the complex interplay between ethics, politics, culture, and semiotics, the project identifies the crucial role that cultural and semiotic structures play in the creation of ethical-political values and frameworks and, in so doing, contributes to our understanding of the ways in which cultures not only create their own defining narratives, but, through these, interact with and understand one another. More information about the project can be found at https://sovereigntyandlaw.wordpress.com/

 

CV

Gavin Rae was previously an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, where he also held an Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship. He specializes in post-Kantian philosophy with particular emphasis on ontology, socio-political philosophy, and theories of subjectivity. He has published three books: The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (Palgrave Macmillan: 2016); Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014) and Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being (Palgrave Macmillan: 2011). Besides these monographs, he has published numerous articles in prestigious international journals including the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Journal of International Political Theory, Human Studies, Political Theology, History of the Human Sciences, Critical Horizons, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Sartre Studies International, and been invited to present his work at international conferences throughout Europe, North America, and North Africa. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of London (Royal Holloway) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

MONOGRAPHS [Peer-reviewed]:

  1. Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, under contract).
  2. Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics, Bio-Juridicalism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). ISBN: 978–1474445283.
  3. Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). ISBN: 978-1474445320.
  4. The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). ISBN: 978–1137591678.

EDITED COLLECTIONS [Peer-reviewed]:

  1. The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics, edited with Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2019). ISBN: 978-1138570207.
  2. Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, edited with Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2018). ISBN: 978–1138291645.

INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS [PEER-REVIEWED]:

  1. ‘Forming the Individual: Lacan and Castoriadis on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence,’ in Philosophical Reflections on Violence and Meaning, edited by Lode Lauwaert, Laura Smith, and Christian Sternad (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, under contract).
  2. ‘Independence, Alliance, and Echo: Deleuze on the Relationship between Philosophy, Science, and Art,’ in Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity, edited by Guillaume Collet (London: Bloomsbury, under contract).
  3. ‘The Meanings of Violence: Editor’s Introduction,’ with Emma Ingala, in The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics, edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 1–9.
  4. ‘Taming the Little Screaming Monster: Castoriadis, Violence, and the Creation of the Individual,’ in The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics, edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 171–190.
  5. ‘Editor’s Introduction: Between Subjectivity and the Political,’ with Emma Ingala, in Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp.  1–11.
  6. ‘Between Failure and Redemption: Emmanuel Levinas on the Political,’ in Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp.  55–74.
  7. ‘The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign,’ in Seeing Animals after Derrida, edited by James Tink and Sarah Bezan (Lanham: Lexington, 2018), pp.  3–19.

JOURNAL ARTICLES [Peer-reviewed]:

  1. ‘Questioning the Phallus: Jacques Lacan and Judith Butler,’ in Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
  2. ‘Hannah Arendt, Evil, and Political Resistance,’ forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences.
  3. ‘Agency and Will in Agamben’s Coming Politics,’ Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 44, n. 9, 2018, pp. 978–996.
  4. ‘The Problem of Grounding: Schelling on the Metaphysics of Evil,’ Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, vol. 57, n. 2, 2018, pp. 233–248.
  5. ‘The Politics of Justice: Levinas, Violence, and the Ethical-Political Relationship,’ Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 17, n. 1, 2018, pp. 49–68.
  6. ‘Disharmonious Continuity: Critiquing Presence with Sartre and Derrida,’ Sartre Studies International, vol. 23, n. 2, 2017, pp. 58–81.
  7. ‘The Political Significance of the Face: Deleuze’s Critique of Levinas,’ Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, vol. 17, n. 3/4, 2016, pp. 279–303.
  8. ‘The Theology of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology,’ Political Theology, vol. 17, n. 6, 2016, pp. 555–572.
  9. ‘The Real Enmity of Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political,’ Journal of International Political Theory, vol. 12, n. 3, 2016, pp. 258–275.
  10. ‘Much Ado about Nothing: The Bergsonian and Heideggerian Roots of Sartre’s Conception of Nothingness,’ Human Studies, vol. 39, n. 2, 2016, pp. 249–268.

INVITED BOOKS REVIEWS [Peer-reviewed]:

  1. ‘Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness by Kate Katepatrick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017),’ in European Journal of Philosophy of Religion, vol. 10, n. 4, pp. 222–227.
  2. ‘Hegel, Love, and Forgiveness: Positive Recognition in German Idealism by Liz Disley (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015),’ in Hegel Bulletin, vol.  39, vol.  2, 2018, pp.  360–365.
  3. ‘Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman, edited by Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen, and Colbey Emmerson Reid (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014),’ in Technology and Culture, January, vol.  57, n. 1, 2016, pp. 283–284.

TRANSLATIONS:

  1. Nathan Widder, ‘Micropolitica de las pulsiones,’ Emma Ingala & Gavin Rae, Logos: Anales del Seminario de Metafísica, vol. 50, 2017, pp. 21–38.​

MEMBERSHIP OF NATIONAL (SPAIN) RESEARCH PROJECTS:

  1.  ‘Sujetos, Emociones y Estructuras. Para un proyecto de teoría social crítica’ [‘Subjects, Emotions, and Structures: A Project in Socio–critical Theory’] FFI2016–75073–R: January 2016–December 2018: €18,500.
  1. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Principal Investigator: Antonio Gómez Ramos.
  1.  ‘Pensamiento y Representación Literaria y Artística Digital ante la Crisis de Europa y el Mediterraneo’ [‘Crisis of Representation/Representations of Crisis’] PR26/16–6B–3: 22 de Diciembre 2016–21 de Diciembre 2018.
    1. Financiado por el Banco Santander y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. Investigador Principal: Emma Ingala.
  2. ‘Naturaleza Humana y Comunidad III: ¿Actualidad del Humanismo e Inactualidad del Hombre?’ [Human Nature and Community III: The Actuality of Humanism and the Inactuality of the Human?] FFI2013–46815–P: 1st January 2014– 31 de Diciembre 2017.
    1. Finaciado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. Investigador Principal: Jose Luis Pardo Torio.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:

  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Award for Outstanding Research 2018. Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
  2. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Award for Outstanding Research 2016. Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

  1. Invited External Reviewer for C1 international funding competition, Research Council KU Leuven, Belgium (2018)
  2. Invited External Reviewer for ANECA, Spain (2018)
  3. Invited Reviewer for Times Higher Education (THE) Annual Review of Global Universities (2018).

OTHER DISSEMINATION AND COMUNICATION ACTIVITIES

INVITED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:

  1. ‘Splitting the Unconscious: Castoriadis and the Problem of Poststructuralist Agency.’ Invited presentation to the ‘Poststructuralism: Past, Present, Future’ conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6–7 March 2019.
  2. ‘Deleuze’s Differential Ontology.’ Invited guest Public lecture presented to the ‘Seminar on Current Approaches in Philosophy,’ Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 3 October 2018.
  3. ‘The Problem of Difference in Phenomenology and Poststructuralism.’ Invited guest lecture presented to the ‘Seminar on Current Approaches in Philosophy,’ Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2 October 2018.
  4. ‘Questioning the Phallus: Jacques Lacan and Judith Butler.’ Invited presentation to the 2018 Lacan Écrits Conference, Ghent University, Belgium, 21–22 September 2018.
  5. ‘Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” as an Ethics of Responsibility.’ Invited presentation to the 18th Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Joint Annual Conference, University of Essex, England, 18–20 June 2018.
  6. ‘Law and the Psyche: Lacan and Kristeva on Authority and Transformation.’ Presentación invitada ‘Rethinking Transformation’ conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 7-8 Marzo, 2018.
  7. ‘Thinking Difference through Deleuze.’ Ponencia invitada ‘Seminar on Current Approaches in Philosophy,’ Departamento de Filosófica Teórica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España, 11 de Octobre, 2017.
  8. ‘Identity and Difference in Heidegger and Derrida.’ Ponencia invitada ‘Seminar on Current Approaches in Philosophy,’ Departamento de Filosófica Teórica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España, 10 de Octobre, 2017.
  9. ‘Agamben, Resistance, and the Coming Politics: The Problem of Biopolitical Agency.’ Ponente invitado ‘Empire, Capital, and Transnational Resistance: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches’ conference, University of Brighton, Inglaterra, 13-15 de Septiembre, 2017.
  10. ‘Three Logics of Sovereign Violence: The Radical Juridical, Biopolitical, and Biojuridical.’ Ponencia invitada ‘Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy‘(SEP–FEP) Joint Annual Conference, University of Winchester, Inglaterra, 4-6 de Septiembre, 2017.
  11. ‘The Critique of Presence: Sartre’s Influence on Derrida.’ Presentación invitada  ‘After Existentialism: UK Sartre Studies 2017’ conference, Maison Française d’Oxford, University of Oxford, Inglaterra, 18 de Julio 2017.
  12. ‘Taming the Screaming Monster: Castoriadis on Violence and the Creation of the Individual.’ Presentación invitada  ‘The Meaning of Violence’ conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España, 8-9 de Marzo, 2017.
  13. ‘The Real and the Radical Imaginary: Creativity in Castoriadis and Lacan.’ Presentación invitada ‘Imagination and Power’ conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 1–2 December, 2016.
  14. ‘The Question of the Frontier: The Political and the Theological in Carl Schmitt.’ Presentación invitada  ‘On the Edge: Theories on the Frontier’ conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España, 20–21 de Octobre, 2016.
  15. ‘Difference in 20th Century Philosophy.’ Ponencia invitada  ‘Seminar on Current Approaches in Philosophy,’ Departamento de Filosófica Teórica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España, 11 de Octobre, 2016.
  16. ‘Tension from, through, and around the Line: Carl Schmitt’s Complexio Oppositorum and the Question of Political Theology.’ Presentación invitada ‘Lines in Sand: Borders, Conflicts and Transitions’ conference, University of Glasgow, Escocia, 9-11 de Septembre, 2016.
  17. ‘The Problem of Grounding: Schelling on the Metaphysics of Evil.’ Presentación invitada ‘The 21st Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion,’ Uppsala University, Suecia, 25–28 de Agosto, 2016.
  18. ‘Arendt on the Radical Evil of Political Terror.’ Presentación invitada ‘3rd Transnational Critical–Political Seminar: Thought and Social Terror, Real Conquense Academy of Arts and Letters‘, Cuenca, España, 5-7 de Julio 2016.
  19. ‘Humanism to Posthumanism: The Meaning of the Beyond. Presentación invitada ‘8th Conference of the Beyond Humanism Conference Series: Posthuman Studies and Technologies of Control‘, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España, 25–27 de Mayo, 2016.
  20. ‘Political Symbolism: Derrida on the Relationship between the (la) Beast and the (le) Sovereign,’ Presentación invitada ‘Master in Theory and Cultural Critique’ research seminar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España, 18 de Mayo, 2016.
  21. ‘Levinas and the Problem of the Ego.’ Presentación invitada ‘Seminar of Young International Researchers,’ Institute of Philosophy, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, España, 11 de Mayo, 2016.
  22. ‘From Ontology to Ethics (and Back): Levinas’ Critique of Heidegger.’ Presentación invitada ‘The Actuality of Humanism and the Inactuality of the Human’ research seminar,’ Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España, 25 de Abril, 2016. [disponible en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e15M6UY3KN4]
  23. ‘Collective Spirit, Individual Ethic, and the Problem of Poverty in Hegel's Philosophy of Right.’ Presentación invitada ‘Hegel and the Concept of World History’ conference, Kingston University, Reino Unido, 14–15 Abril 2016.
  24. ‘From Nothingness to Difference: Critiquing Presence with Sartre and Derrida.’ Presentación invitada ‘Continuities in Modern French Philosophy’ conference, University of Dundee, Escocia, 2–3 Abril, 2016.
  25. ‘Politics and Redemption: The Political Theology of Emmanuel Levinas.’ Presentación invitada ‘Subjectivity and the Political 2016’ conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España, 9 de Marzo, 2016.
  26. ‘Violence and the Political in Emmanuel Levinas.’ Presentación invitada ‘Philosophical and Moral Prisms of the Crisis: Towards a New Socio–political Paradigm’ research seminar, Institute of Philosophy, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, España, 16 de Diciembre, 2015.
  27. ‘The Problem of Foundations in Political Theology.’ Presentación invitada ‘Permanent Research Seminar in Philosophy,’ Departmento de Humanidades: Filosofía, Lenguaje, y Literatura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, España, 10 de Diciembre, 2015.
  28. ‘The Human in Posthumanism: Genealogy, Trace, Politics.’ Presentación invitada ‘Posthumanism and Posthumanities: A Dialogue with Rosi Braidotti’ workshop, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 3 de Diciembre, 2015.
  29. ‘Thinking Difference.’ Ponencia invitada ‘Seminar on Current Approaches in Philosophy,’ Departamento de Filosófica Teórica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España, 25 de Noviembre, 2015.

INTERNATIONAL EVENT ORGANIZATION

  1. ‘Poststructuralism: Past, Present, Future,’ 6–7 March, 2019: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain [Con la Dr. Emma Ingala, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España]
  2.  ‘Rethinking Transformation’ conference, 7–8 March, 2018: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, España [con la Dr. Emma Ingala, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España]
  3. ‘Giving Account of the Emotions: Subjects, Society and Persons,’ XI Inter-university Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality, 27–29 Septiembre, 2017: Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, España [Miembro del Comité Científico]
  4. ‘The Meaning of Violence,’ 8–9 Marzo, 2017: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, España [con la Dr. Emma Ingala, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España]
  5. ‘Subjectivity and the Political 2016’ conference, 9–10 Marzo, 2016: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, España [con la Dr. Emma Ingala, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España]