Philippe 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), two special issues of the Oxford Literary Review: A Green Blanchot Revisited (2025) and What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be? (with Timothy Clark, 2023), and a double special issue of Derrida Today: Deconstruction and Twenty-First Century Thought (with Niki Young, 2026).
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 three books: Ecologies of Emptiness: Cosmic Pessimism and the Kyoto School, an introductory book on Environmental Posthumanities, and Teaching in the Ruins: De-Limiting the University with Benjamin and Derrida (coauthored with Dominic Smith).
He resides in Durham with his wife Stephanie Proud, his 2-year-old son John, and 16-year-old cat Schmoo.
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