Philippe Lynes

Monographs
Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism, Volume 2: Art and Dwelling (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming, 2026). 179 + xviii pages. Endorsements from Claire Colebrook and David Farrell Krell.

Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism, Volume 1: The Nothing and Nothingness (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2025). 220 + xviii pages. Endorsements from Claire Colebrook and Graham Harman.

Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida’s General Ecology. Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies (London: Bloomsbury, 2018). 230 + liv pages. Endorsements from Vicki Kirby, Dawne McCance, Francesco Vitale and David Wills. Reviewed in French Studies, Style.

Edited Collections and Special Journal Issues
SETI: The Cosmic Turn in the Environmental Humanities. Special issue of Oxford Literary Review 49.2, December 2027. Co-editor with Timothy Clark, under contract.

Deconstruction and Twenty-First Century Thought, Part 2: Deconstruction Tomorrow. Special issue of Derrida Today 19.3, October 2026. Co-editor with Niki Young, under contract.

Deconstruction and Twenty-First Century Thought, Part 1: The New Realisms. Special issue of Derrida Today 19.2, June 2026. Co-editor with Niki Young, in print.

A Green Blanchot Revisited. Special issue of Oxford Literary Review 47.2, December 2025. Editor. 158 pp.

What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be? Special issue of Oxford Literary Review, 45.1, July 2023. Co-editor with Timothy Clark. 163 pp.

Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). Co-editor with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood. 359 + xvi pages. Endorsements from Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeffrey Nealon, Mick Smith and David Wills. Reviewed in Choice, Environmental Values, Ethics & The Environment, The Heythrop Journal, Medium, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, The Review of Metaphysics.

Articles and Book Chapters
‘“Nothing But Us”: Philippe Lynes interviewed by Timothy Clark.’ The Oxford Literary Review Supplement, April 2, 2026. https://olrsupplement.com/2026/04/02/nothing-but-us/

‘The Holy Mourning of Physis: Hölderlin’s Testimony in the Last Instance.’ Política Común: A Journal for Thought 17, 2025, pp. 1-27.

‘“Our Fate, Which Remains Shackled to the Hardened Crust of a Planet”: Blanchot and Derrida’s Lautréamont.’ Special issue of Oxford Literary Review, ‘A Green Blanchot Revisited’ 47.2, ed. Philippe Lynes, December 2025, pp. 249-69.

‘Die Fremde Versammlung, or, Le Procès de la Chose in Kafka, Heidegger and Derrida.’ Special issue of Oxford Literary Review, ‘Kafka’s The Trial, 100 Years On’ 47.1, ed. Nicholas Royle, July 2025, pp. 97-102.

‘The Arche-Forest and the Clinging Instinct: Imre Hermann Between Derrida’s Brackets.’ Special issue of Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, ‘What Remains Today – Derrida’ 14, eds. Laurent Milesi and Marta Segarra, 2024, pp. 169-88.

‘Eco-Deconstruction, or (Post)Humanism of the Other (Nonhuman)’ in Cenk Tan and İsmail Serdar Altaç, eds., Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024), pp. 79-89.

‘“Le Mythe d’Ulysse” de Maurice Blanchot.’ Espace Maurice Blanchot. blanchot.fr/articles/, September 2023.

‘World, Earth, Planet: A Time and Place for Nihilation in Ecocriticism.’ Special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, ‘Towards Climate Justice: Eco-Strategies for Survival’ 58.3, eds. Thomas Dutoit, Aleksander Kopka and Katarzyna Szopa, 2020, pp. 21-43.

‘Domestic Violence and Metaphysics.’ Special issue of Derrida Today, ‘Fire, Flood, Pestilence and Protest’ 13.2, ed. Nicole Anderson. November 2020, pp. 178-83.

‘After Biodeconstruction in the Neganthropocene.’ Special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review, ‘After Biodeconstruction’ 19.3, ed. Francesco Vitale. Winter 2019, pp. 65-98.

‘The Imagination.’ Special issue of Philosophy Today, ‘New Concepts for Materialism’ 63.4, eds. Adam Nocek and Iris van der Tuin. Fall 2019, pp. 941-55.

‘Extinction and Thalassal Regression.’ Special issue of Oxford Literary Review, ‘EXT: Writing Extinction’ 41.1, ed. Sarah Wood. July 2019, pp. 107-26.

‘The Posthuman Promise of the Earth’ in Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood, eds. Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018), pp. 101-20.

‘Is it Ecologically Just to Be? Anti-Natalism in Eco-Deconstruction.’ Special issue of Oxford Literary Review 38.1, ‘Overpopulation.’ ed. Timothy Clark. July 2016, pp. 99-126.

‘Ecologies of Translation, Translations of Ecologies: Between Ecolinguistics and Translation Studies.’ The International Ecolinguistics Association. ecolinguistics-association.org/Journal, February 2013.

Encyclopedia Entries
‘Jacques Derrida’ in Martin Kreiswirth, Imre Szeman, Cymene Howe, Andrew Pendakis and Valerie Uher, eds., The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in print).

‘Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004)’ (with Matthias Fritsch) in Nicolas de Warren and Ted Toadvine, eds., The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (London: Springer, 2025).

Forewords and Afterwords
‘Introduction’ (with Niki Young). Special issue of Derrida Today, ‘Deconstruction and Twenty-First Century Thought, Part 1: The New Realisms,’ 19.2. June 2026, in print.

‘Note de l’éditeur’ in Jacques Derrida, La Chose. Séminaire (1975-1977), suivi de La sixième séance de Donner le temps II. Bibliothèque Derrida (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, in print).

‘Introduction.’ Special issue of Oxford Literary Review, ‘A Green Blanchot Revisited’ 47.2, ed. Philippe Lynes, December 2025, pp. 169-84.

‘Notice’ (with Leslie Hill) in Maurice Blanchot, Aminadab, Version manuscrite. Corpus Blanchot (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2024), pp. 323-44.

‘Introduction’ (with Timothy Clark). Special issue of Oxford Literary Review, ‘What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be?’ 45.1. July 2023, pp. 1-20.

‘Notice’ (with Leslie Hill) in Maurice Blanchot, Thomas le Solitaire. Corpus Blanchot (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2022), pp. 266-78.

‘Introduction’ (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) in Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood, eds. Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018), pp. 1-26.

‘Auparadvances’ in Jacques Derrida, Advances (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), pp. ix-xlvii.

Translations and Scholarly Editions
Jacques Derrida, The Thing. Posthumanities (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, in preparation). Editor and Co-translator with Leslie Hill.

Jacques Derrida, La Chose. Séminaire (1975-1977), suivi de La sixième séance de Donner le temps II. Bibliothèque Derrida (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, in print). Editor and Introduction.

Quentin Meillassoux, ‘Being and Nothingness.’ Derrida Today 19.2, June 2026, in print. Translation and Introduction.

François Laruelle, ‘Derrida, Mediator, or, The Limits of a Textual Deconstruction.’ Derrida Today 19.2, June 2026, in print. Translation and Introduction.

Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Discourses of the End.’ Oxford Literary Review 47.2, December 2025, pp. 296-320. Translation.

Anne Emmanuelle Berger, ‘Politics of the Heart.’ Derrida Today 18.1, February 2025, pp. 1-24. Translation.

Maurice Blanchot, Aminadab: Version manuscrite. Corpus Blanchot (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2024). 344 pages. Co-editor with Leslie Hill.

Jacques Derrida, ‘Writings on Money’ (with Adam Rosenthal). Derrida Today 17.3, October 2024, pp. 299-325. Translation.

Jacques Derrida, ‘Eyespot Like no Other’ (with Ellie Anderson), ‘Form and Fashion,’ ‘Philosophy at the Risk of the Promise’ (with Ellie Anderson) ‘Prière d’insérer’ and ‘With Levinas’ in Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi, eds. Thinking What Comes, Volume 2: Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions. The Frontiers of Theory. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Translation.

Jacques Derrida, ‘Thinker of the Event’ in Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi, eds. Thinking What Comes, Volume 1: Essays, Interviews, and Interventions. The Frontiers of Theory. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Translation.

Maurice Blanchot, Premiers récits: Le Mythe d’Ulysse (inédit), suivi de L’Idylle (1936) et du Dernier Mot (1935). Corpus Blanchot (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2023). 158 pages. Co-editor with Leslie Hill.

Marc Crépon, ‘The Unconditional Condition of Peace.’ Derrida Today 16.1, May 2023, pp. 20-35. Translation.

Maurice Blanchot, Thomas le Solitaire. Corpus Blanchot (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2022). 282 pages. Co-editor with Leslie Hill. Reviewed in Acta fabula: Revue des parutions.

Serge Margel, The Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato’s Timaeus. A Univocal Book (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019). 146 + xv pages. Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Nominated for Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, French-American Foundation. Translation.

Jacques Derrida, Advances. A Univocal Book (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). 54 + xlvii pages. Reviewed in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. Translation and Introduction.

Jacques Derrida, ‘Abraham’s Melancholy’ (with Ellie Anderson). The Oxford Literary Review 39.2, December 2017, pp. 123-158. Translation.

Jean Hyppolite and Michel Henry, ‘Appendix: Correspondence’ and J. Hernandez-Dispaux, ‘Michel Henry and his Master Jean Hyppolite’ October 2013. Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 24. Translation.