Philippe Lynes

Lynes is a researcher with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, and a visiting scholar with the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Glasgow. His research situates itself at the intersections of continental philosophy, comparative literary studies and the environmental humanities. He was previously an Addison Wheeler Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English Studies at Durham University, a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Lynes is the author of the two-volume ‘Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism,’ forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2025 and 2026, and ‘Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology’ (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018). He is the editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of’'Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy,’(Fordham University Press, 2018) and of two special issues of the Oxford Literary Review, ‘A Green Blanchot Revisited’ (2025) and ‘What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be?’ (with Timothy Clark, 2023). Lynes is also a translator and editor of French philosophy and literature, notably of the work of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot. He is associate editor of the journal Derrida Today, and one of the lead editors of Blanchot's literary estate. He is currently working on two books: 'Ecologies of Emptiness,' on the Kyoto School, and an introductory book on 'The Environmental Posthumanities.'