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Daniel Heller-Roazen

Disciplines:
philosophy/continental philosophy
history/history of ideas
literary criticism/literary theory

Summary

American philosopher and philologist who produces baroque scholarly works at the intersection of philosophy, philology, legal history, and medieval studies.

Core Contribution

Echolalias: on the forgetting of language — traces the traces of language in babbling, glossolalia, and forgetting. The Enemy of All: the pirate as a figure of universal enmity in international law — a conceptual genealogy of statelessness and universal jurisdiction.

Notable Works & Achievements

Echolalias

The Enemy of All

The Fifth Hammer

Dark Tongues

Historical Influences

Giorgio Agamben Walter Benjamin

Intellectual Lineage

Continental Philosophy History of Ideas

Contemporaries & Peers

Giorgio Agamben

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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