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Cillian Ó Fathaigh is Research Fellow in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at UCM. His research interests lie in twentieth-century Francophone philosophy, intellectual history and political theory. His work forms part of the Differential Ontology and The Politics of Reason project.

For May 2023, Cillian will be a Junior Fellow at the Leuven Institute for Advanced Studies, KU Leuven. 

He is a Principal Investigator (alongside Dr Katie Pleming and Dr Liesbeth Schoonheim) of the Digital Public Space Research Network, a UNA Europa collaboration between UCM, the University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven.

He completed his PhD on the role of institutions in Jacques Derrida’s political engagements at the University of Cambridge (England), where he was a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Scholar. Prior to coming to UCM, he was a Research Fellow on the "Spaces of Translation" project, a major AHRC-DFG funded project, shared between Nottingham Trent University (England) and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany). He previously taught at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), and has been a scholar at both Trinity College, Dublin, and St. John’s College, Cambridge, and an invited student at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm). In 2021, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Interdisciplinary Centre for the History of Ideas, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Milan (Italy). He is Communications Officer for the Society for European Philosophy.

 

Email: cillofat@ucm.es

Recent Conferences Organised::
Resistance and Subjectivities in the Digital Public Space (8/9th September 2022, KU Leuven, Hybrid) 
The Limits of Reason (1st June 2022, online)
Decolonization & Poststructuralism (23rd February 2022)

 

Journal Articles:

Book Chapters:

  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "Beyond Violence: Intersubjective Transformation in Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings," in Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. Emma Ingala, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Gavin Rae (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "'No Accounting for Taste': Aesthesis and Decolonial Thought," in Philosophy across Borders: Perspectives from Contemporary Theory, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "Politics of Plasticity: Catherine Malabou´s Anarchic Agents," in Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "Is there a Politics to Friendship?: Derrida’s Critique of the Couple in Montaigne, Kant and Levinas", in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity, ed. Luke Collison, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), pp. 58-67.
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "Welcome Friends: Reading Derrida’s Politics of Friendship", with Luke Collison and Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), pp. 1-32.

Edited Volumes:

  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. with Emma Ingala and Gavin Rae (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, under contract).
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism, ed. with Gavin Rae (New York: Routledge, under contract).
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. #NousSommes: Collectivity and the Digital in French Thought and Culture, ed. with Susie Cronin and Sofia Ropek Hewson (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020). ISBN: 9781788747677
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Derrida’s Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity, ed. with Luke Collison & Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). ISBN: 978-1474486736