Matt Peterson
@_Matt_Peterson_
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PhD candidate @UChicago | modern philosophy, religious thought, psychoanalysis | translator
Chicago, IL
Joined December 2010
The apocalypse is cheap! This week my translation of Jean Vioulac’s Apocalypse of Truth, and all other @UChicagoPress e-books, are 75% off. If you haven’t yet, consider giving it a read.
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We inhabit a time of crisis—totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his...
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“Cézanne’s painting…reveals the base of inhuman nature upon which man had installed himself […] the frozen objects hesitate as at the beginning of the world.” Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne’s Doubt
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Out on 4 June: 4 previously unpublished lectures by Jacques Derrida delivered under the title "To Think is To Say No" at the Sorbonne during the academic year 1960-'61.
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My article “Pathogenesis: Freud’s Paul and the question of historical truth” is out with Continental Philosophy Review. Thanks to good friends and colleagues for many helpful rounds of feedback!
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Continental Philosophy Review - This article retrieves Freud’s Paul as a forgotten predecessor and untapped critic of the “return to Paul” in contemporary political theology and...
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Michel Foucault's draft of the 4th volume in the History of Sexuality was translated as "Confessions of the Flesh" last week. Focused on early Christian sources, Confessions makes better sense when looking at Foucault's engagement with Christian texts from 1974-1984 as we have...
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Very excited to share the cover for my translation of Jean Vioulac’s Apocalypse de la vérité, with a preface by Jean-Luc Marion, forthcoming next year with @UChicagoPress. This is philosophy for a time of crisis, and I’m proud to make it available to the English-speaking world
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Spent some quality time with Lana Del Ray's ex boyfriend's mom today
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Only problem with ad blocker is that Facebook can't tell me what I want or who I am :(
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When we're older will we frame gifs and hang them on out walls? Or maybe on the mantle?
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"Hey, you know they're all the same" definitely not appropriate for this environment tho. Many bags look alike!
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Guitar solo from the Middle playing as baggage claim starts
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