Daniel W. Smith

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Daniel W. Smith
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🏳️ Nationality	American
💼 Occupation	Philosopher

Daniel W. Smith (born October 26, 1958) is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University, where his work is focused on 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. Smith is most known for his interpretation of the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and is the author of Essays on Deleuze.

He is the co-director of The Deleuze Seminars project.

Education

Smith received his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1997, after receiving an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago in 1983 and a B.A. in Literature from Wheaton College in Illinois. He did language study at the Paris-Sorbonne University and Beijing Language and Culture University.

Career

After receiving his doctorate from Chicago in 1997, Smith was assistant professor at Grinnell College from 1997 to 1998 and a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia from 1999 to 2001. He joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2001, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and became Professor of Philosophy in 2014.

Smith is the founder and co-director, with Charles J. Stivale, of an online digital humanities project, The Deleuze Seminars, that translates into English the seminar lectures that Deleuze gave at the University of Paris 8 at Vincennes/St. Denis between 1971 and 1987, and makes them available at the project's website.

Research and work

Smith's research is focused on 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He also works and teaches in aesthetics, phenomenology, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, Bergson, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology.

Smith is best known for his work on the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. His thesis was focused on Deleuze's philosophy, and he translated two of Deleuze's books into English: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and Essays Critical and Clinical.

Essays on Deleuze

Smith's book Essays on Deleuze was published in 2012 and was called a "a milestone in Deleuze studies." Keith Ansell-Pearson called it a "delightfully rich volume of essays: the essays are uniformly excellent," adding that "no one, at least in the English-speaking world, has done more to illuminate Deleuze's philosophical inventiveness than Daniel Smith," although he suggested that Smith did not "adequately explore" the connection of "Nietzsche's Nachlass remark on overturning Platonism" with "Deleuze's emphasis on the problem of simulacra." Kenneth Noe from Southern Illinois University stated that, "Daniel W. Smith's work on the great French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) is owed a debt by English-speaking readers of Deleuze that is difficult to overstate." He noted that the book "records Smith's significant contribution to Deleuze studies while also laying foundations for new avenues of research."

Awards and honors

• 1993 - 1994 - Bourse Chateaubriand en sciences sociales et humaines (Chateaubriand Fellowship), French Government.
• 2004 - Wayne Leys Memorial Lecture, Southern Illinois University.
• 2013 - Bradley Memorial Lecture in Speculative Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Selected bibliography

Book

• Essays on Deleuze. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0748643325 Search this book on ..

Edited books

• Between Deleuze and Foucault. Eds. Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, and Daniel W. Smith, 2016. ISBN 978-1474415088 Search this book on ..
• The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze. Ed. Henry Somers-Hall and Daniel W. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0521175715 Search this book on ..
• Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event, together with The Vocabulary of Deleuze, by François Zourabichvili. Ed. and with an introduction by Gregg Lambert and Daniel W. Smith. Trans. Kieran Aarons. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0748645855 Search this book on ..
• Deleuze and Ethics. Ed. Nathan Jun and Daniel W. Smith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0748641161 Search this book on ..
• Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text. Ed. Eugene W. Holland, Daniel W. Smith, and Charles J. Stivale. London: Continuum, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8264-3923-9 Search this book on ..

Selected translations

• Klossowski, Pierre. Living Currency. Ed. Vern Cisney, Nicolae Morar, and Daniel W. Smith. London: Continuum, 2017. ISBN 978-1472508591 Search this book on ..
• Serres, Michel. Thumbelina. Trans. Daniel W. Smith. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
• Foucault, Michel. The Gay Science, interview with Jean Le Bitou. Trans. Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith. Critical Inquiry 37 (Spring 2011), 385-403.
• Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0816643424 Search this book on ..
• Stengers, Isabelle. The Invention of Modern Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0816630561 Search this book on ..
• Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0226443874 Search this book on ..

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