Tom Eyers
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013)
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dusquene University
FIELDS OF INTEREST
His research interests include the philosophy of literature and art, literary theory and literary criticism, psychoanalysis and 20th Century French philosophy.
PROFILE
Tom Eyers received his Ph.D. from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London. He holds BA and Mphil. degrees from the University of Cambridge. His first book, ‘Lacan and the Concept of the Real’, was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. His second, ‘Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology and Marxism in Postwar France’, first appeared with Bloomsbury in 2013, and then in a paperback edition in 2015. His third book, ‘Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present’, is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2016. He serves as an Assistant Editor of the journal boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture’.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Lacan and the Concept of the ‘Real’. Palgrave Macmillan 2012.
- Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology and Marxism in Postwar France. Bloomsbury Academic 2013; p/b. 2015.
- Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present. Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Articles
- ‘Materialist Wordsworth’
Forthcoming in boundary 2 - ‘Badiou Among the Poets’
Forthcoming in boundary 2 - ‘Form as Formalization in Lukàcs’
Forthcoming in Mediations - ‘The Revenge of Form’
Forthcoming in boundary 2 - ‘Language Poetry and the Textual Negotiation of History’
Forthcoming in Textual Practice - ‘Wallace Stevens, Alain Badiou, and the Paradoxical Productivity of Poetic Form’
Textual Practice, published online and forthcoming in print, October 2015 - ‘Objections to Form: Poetry, Psychoanalysis, and the Turn to Objects’
Umbr(a): Journal of the Unconscious, 2014 - ‘Paul de Man’s Philosophical Poetics’
Philosophy Compass 9.1, January 2014 - ‘The Perils of the Digital Humanities: New Positivisms and the Fate of Literary Theory’
Postmodern Culture, 10.2, 2014 - ‘French Philosophy of Science, Structuralist Epistemology, and the Problem of the Subject’
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 52.2, 2014 - ‘Bachelard, Lacan, and the Impurity of Scientific Formalization’ (Shortlisted for the Oxford University Malcolm Bowie Prize in French Studies)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, Kingston University, London, 2011
Mphil., Social Anthropological Research, University of Cambridge, 2006
B.A., Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2005