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: XXth Century Continental philosophy, in particular Foucault and phenomenology (mostly Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre); XIXth Century German philosophy (Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche).

 

Current research: a book on Transcendence without Religion, meant to retrace a genealogy of the concept and search for possibilities for recovering a non religious understanding of it; Foucault's interest in the transcendental and his critique of phenomenology.

 

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

• "Nietzsche's Metaphysics in the Birth of Tragedy.pdf", forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy (april 2007).
   
• "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

 

·             Gary Gutting’s original review

·             Reply to review (in PDF format)