Daniel Heller-Roazen
Daniel Heller-Roazen
Daniel Heller-Roazen studied in Toronto, Baltimore, Paris and Venice, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in German from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University.
His fields of interest include medieval studies, poetics and philosophy.
He has published essays on classical, medieval and modern literature and philosophy in Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, Grey Room, Littérature, MLN, October, Paragraph, Parallax, Po&sie and Romania.
He has translated three books by Giorgio Agamben, as well as translated, edited and introduced Giorgio Agamben's Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 1999).
He is the author of Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (Zone Books, 2003); and The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation (Zone Books, 2005).
Daniel Heller-Roazen's books have been translated (or are forthcoming in translation) into Arabic (Dar Toubkal), French (Éditions du Seuil), German (Suhrkamp Verlag), Italian (Libri Quodlibet), Polish (Universitas), Portuguese (Editora Unicamp) and Spanish (Katz Editores).
His current projects include preparing The Norton Critical Edition of the Arabian Nights and finishing a book on piracy and the law of nations.
Recent Publications
- The Inner Touch Archaeology of a Sensation
- Echolalias On the Forgetting of Language
- Fortune's Faces The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
- Potentialities Collected Essays in Philosophy
