BA, MA (Warwick), PhD (Cantab)
Stipendiary Lecturer in French, Wadham & University Colleges

Tel. no.: 01865 2 77551 (Wadham); 01865 2 76633 (Univ)
Email: gerald.moore@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Dr Gerald Moore BA, MA (Warwick), PhD (Cantab) studied Politics & Philosophy and Continental Philosophy before completing a PhD on contemporary French philosophy and the social sciences at Downing College, Cambridge, in 2007. Prior to coming to Oxford in 2009, he taught for the faculties of Modern & Medieval Languages and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and at Université Paris-Est Créteil (formerly Université Paris-12).

Research Interests

Dr Moore’s research focuses broadly on European (predominantly French) literature and philosophy from the 18th century to the present, with a leaning toward the blurred boundaries of modern and postmodern literary and philosophical discourses, and the emergence of twentieth-century, poststructuralist ‘thought’, understood as an amalgamation of philosophy, literary criticism, anthropology and psychoanalysis. He is particularly interested in the different technologies of aesthetic production and experience, and how they transform the nature of experience.

He is presently writing three books, including a monograph on the French philosopher of technology, Bernard Stiegler: Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy in the Age of Industrial Technology (Polity, 2014); and a collection of essays on Stiegler, co-edited with Christina Howells. His longer-term project is a book entitled After Laughter: Redemption at the End of the World, which draws on both philosophy and literature (especially the novels of Michel Houellebecq) to discuss the fate of various figures of salvation and redemption – ironic detachment, sacrifice, revolution, the innocence of children and the sublime – in an age of economic and ecological collapse.

Gerald Moore is also active in promoting philosophy and cultural criticism in the public sphere. He has appeared on the Today programme, on Radio 4, and taken part in various public debates, including at the How The Light Gets In festival in Hay-on-Wye. Some of these talks are available to watch online here: http://iai.tv/search?q=Gerald+Moore

Teaching

Dr Moore has taught on a number of undergraduate papers covering the history of French literature, literary criticism and thought over the 18th-21st Centuries, with an emphasis on modernity (the Enlightenment, the modern novel) and postmodernity. He also teaches papers on French language and post-Kantian philosophy, and has given graduate classes on 20th-century French thought and literary theory. He has supervised undergraduate dissertations on various aspects of the interrelation of literature, philosophy and politics, and is co-supervising two doctoral students working on recent and contemporary French thought.

Selected Publications

Politics of the Gift: Exchanges in Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2011. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748642021

“Gay Science and (No) Laughing Matter: The Eternal Returns of Michel Houellebecq”, French Studies, 65 (Spring 2011), pp. 45-60.
http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/1/45.full.

Entries on ‘Psychoanalysis After 1966’, ‘Spectres’, ‘Jouissance’ and ‘The Body’, in The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 2, ed. Robert Eaglestone. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.

'(Dys)Clockwork Politics: Rhythm and the Production of Time', in Elizabeth Lindley & Laura McMahon, eds., Rhythm: Essays in French Literature, Film and Culture. Berne: Peter Lang, 2008.

(As translator:)

Henri Lefebvre: State, Space, World, eds. Neil Brenner & Stuart Elden. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Michel Foucault, et al., in Space, Knowledge, Power: Foucault and Geography, eds. Jeremy Crampton & Stuart Elden. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: An Introduction to Space, Time and Everyday Life, with Stuart Elden. London, New York: Continuum, 2004.