Béatrice Han-Pile – Staff Page

Biographical Information:

I studied philosophy, history and literature for four years at the École Normale Supérieure. After this, I was awarded a Fellowship from the Thiers Foundation while completing my doctoral thesis on Michel Foucault. Before coming to Essex, I taught in France at the Universities of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Reims and Amiens. I was invited as a Visiting Scholar twice by the University of California (Berkeley), and by the Université de Nice (France). I am the author of L'ontologie manquée de Michel Foucault, a substantially revised version of which was published in the autumn of 2002 by Stanford University Press as Foucault's Critical Project : Between the Transcendental and the Historical. I also have published various papers, mostly on Foucault, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger and aesthetics.

Main interests: Foucault, phenomenology (mostly Heidegger and Sartre), Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, aesthetics.

Current research: various papers on Heidegger, Foucault and Nietzsche. A book on medio-passivity.

Selected Publications:

Books

Michel Foucault's Critical Project : Between the Transcendental and the Historical (Stanford: Stanford UP, autumn 2002).
L'ontologie Manquée de Michel Foucault (Grenoble: Editions Jerome Millon, 1998).

Papers and contributions to edited volumes
‘Freedom and the Choice to Choose in Being and Time', (about 11 000 words), in The Cambridge Companion to Being and Time, ed. Mark Wrathall, forthcoming 2012.
'Nietzsche and Amor Fati', European Journal of Philosophy, volume 19, n°2, p. 224-262, June 2011, ISSN 0966 8373. A shorter version of this paper is due to be published in a volume of collected essays provisionally entitled 'Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teachings: for Individuals and Culture' (ed. H. Hütter).
Describing Reality or Disclosing Worldhood: Vermeer and Heidegger’, in Art and Phenomenology (ed: J. Parry), Routledge, 2011, p. 138-161, ISBN: 0415774500.
‘The ‘Death of Man’: Foucault and Humanism’ in Foucault and Philosophy, (eds: T. O’Leary and C. Falzon), Blackwell, 2010, p. 118-143, ISBN 1405189606.
‘Transcendental Aspects, Naturalistic Elements and Ontological Commitments in Nietzsche’s Thought’ (about 15 000 words), Inquiry, volume 52, n°2, April 2009, 179-214, ISSN 0020-174X. To be translated in in Portuguese and published in Cadernos.
"Nietzsche's Metaphysics in the Birth of Tragedy.pdf", European Journal of Philosophy, vol 14 n°3, 2007, p. 373-404.
"The Analytic of Finitude and the History of Subjectivity.pdf", in The Cambridge Companion to Foucault,, ed. Gary Gutting, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
"Early Heidegger's Appropriation of Kant.pdf", in The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger, eds. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, London: Blackwell, 2005.
"Is Early Foucault an Historian - History, history and the Analytic of Finitude.pdf", in Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 31, n°5-6, London: Sage publications, 2005.
"Affectivity in Existentialist Philosophy.pdf", in The Blackwell Companion to Existentialism, eds. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, London: Blackwell, 2005.
“Transcendence and the Hermeneutic Circle : some thoughts on Marion and Heidegger”, in Religion and Transcendence, ed. J. Faulconer, Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2003.
"Heidegger and Foucault on Kant and Finitude", in Critical Encounters: Heidegger/Foucault, ed. Alan Milchman, Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2003.

"Nietzsche and the ‘Masters of Truth’: the Presocratics and Christ" in Mark A Wrathall and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert Dreyfus, Volume I, (London and Cambridge, Mass., USA, MIT Press, 2000) pp. 165-86 A slightly different version of the same paper has been published in Nietzsche and the Divine, (ed. John Lippitt and James Urpeth), London: Clinamen UP, 2000.

Reply to Gary Gutting’s Review of Foucault’s Critical Project : Between the Transcendental and the Historical

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