Ray Brassier | |
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Born | Raymond Brassier 1965 (age 58–59) London, England |
Nationality | British |
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Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Speculative realism (transcendental nihilism) |
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Main interests | Nihilism, realism, materialism, methodological naturalism, antihumanism, Marxism |
Notable ideas | Transcendental nihilism, philosophy as the "organon of extinction"[1] |
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Raymond Brassier (born December 22, 1965) is a British philosopher. He is member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London, England.
Brassier is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction and the translator of Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and Theoretical Writings and Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. He first attained prominence as a leading authority on the works of François Laruelle.
More recently Brassier has engaged with Marxism and the work of the German-American political theorist Paul Mattick.[2] In August 2024 it was announced that Brassier would be joining Kyung Hee University as a visiting professor in the Department of British & American Language and Culture, and in 2025 teach a masters course on Marxism and literature with the British theorist and filmmaker Jason Barker.[3]
Brassier is of mixed French-Scottish ancestry. His surname is pronounced as a French word, not like the woman's undergarment in English.[4]