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. Lynes is the author of the two-volume Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism (Northwestern University Press 2025 and 2026) and Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida’s General Ecology (Bloomsbury, 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 Derrida Today, and one of the lead editors of Blanchot’s literary estate. He is currently working on two books: Ecologies of Emptiness: Cosmic Pessimism and the Kyoto School, and an introductory book on Environmental Posthumanities.