philippe beck

PHILIPPE BECK
US TOUR - APRIL 2011
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BIOGRAPHY
Philippe Beck, born in Strasbourg, France, on April 21, 1963 is a
contemporary French poet, writer, and philosopher. In 1994
Philippe Beck received his Doctor of Philosophy at l’Ecole des
hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris under the direction of
Jacques Derrida. Philippe Beck has been Professor at The
European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland since 2009
and Lecturer in Philosophy at the Centre Atlantique de
Philosophie at the University of Nantes since 1995. Beck’s first
book of poetry, Sleeve Guard Hypocrite, (Garde-manche
hypocrite) appeared in 1996. Along with 14 published books of
poetry, Beck has produced an intellectual biography titled Beck
l’impersonnage (Beck the Impersonality, 2006) and a book of
prose with the pithy title A Journal (Un Journal, 2008). He has
collaborated with Gérard Pesson and Philippe Mion in the
composition of several operatic and choral pieces. From 1998 to
2000, he acted as editor-in-chief of the journal Quaderno, and
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continues to serve on the editorial board of journals of philosophy.
Beck has contributed a multitude of academic essays to various journals and has translated works by Walter
Benjamin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, and Karl Philipp Moritz.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Crude Marivaux. Critical texts (Textes critiques), translated into English by Kevin Nolan, Equipage,
Cambridge (U.K.), 1999.
Sleeve Guard hypocrite (Garde-Manche hypocrite et Chambre à roman fusible), Kevin Nolan, Equipage,
Cambridge (U.K.), 2001.
Vault of The Disolvable Novel (Chambre à roman fusible), a selection of texts translated into English by
MacGregor Card, Los Angeles, 2002.
Verre de l’époque Sur-Eddy, Al Dante, Marseille, 1997
Rude merveilleux, Al Dante, Marseille, 1998
Le Fermé de l’époque, Al Dante, Paris, 1999
Contre un Boileau (esquisse), Horlieu, Lyon, 1999
Du principe de la division de soi in Le colloque de nuit, Le temps qu’il fait, Cognac, 2000
Inciseiv, MeMo, Nantes, 2000
Dernière mode familiale, Postface de Jean-Luc Nancy, Flammarion, Paris, 2000
Poésies didactiques, Théâtre Typographique, Courbevoie, 2001
Aux recensions, Flammarion, Paris, 2002
Dans de la nature, Flammarion, Paris, 2003
Élégies Hé, Théâtre Typographique, Courbevoie, 2004
Déductions, Al Dante, Paris, 2005
Beck, l’Impersonnage : rencontre avec Gérard Tessier, Argol, Paris, 2006
Chants populaires, Flammarion, Paris, 2007
De la Loire, commande de la Mairie de Nantes, Argol, Paris, 2008
Un Journal, Flammarion, Paris, 2008
Lyre Dure, Nous, Caen, 2009
RESSOURCES
Critic and essayist Judith Balso introducing the poet Philippe Beck, to the students and faculty of the European
Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQXkEp_vVQM&feature=BF&list=PL16EF9C97DC51DC4A&index=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Beck
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