Samir Haddad

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Northwestern University, 2006.
Dissertation: Derrida, Arendt, and the Inheritance of Democracy.
Committee: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin (chair), Penelope Deutscher, Bonnie Honig, Samuel Weber.

B.A. in Philosophy (1st Class Honours, University Medal) and Women’s Studies, Australian National University, 1998.

B.Sc. in Mathematics, Australian National University, 1998.

My research focuses on 20th Century and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, particularly in the French tradition, with a focus on questions in Social and Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Education. I am currently working on two research projects, one on Derrida’s work on education, and the other on the roles that translation and multilingualism can play in philosophical pedagogy.

Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013).

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 3-19-2014, SCTIW Review 11-25-2014, Canadian Society of Continental Philosophy Reviews 12-18-2014, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 46.3 (2015), International Philosophical Quarterly 55.1 (2015).

Coedited with Olivia Custer and Penelope Deutscher, Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016). 

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 4-15-2017.

Co-edited with Ariana Stokas Gónzales and Jason Wozniak, Hacer Escuela/Inventing School, issue of Lápiz: The Journal of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society, Volume 6, 2021. 

Recent articles and book chapters:

‘Cassin and the Scene of Teaching’, Paragraph 48.1 (2025): 121–133.

‘Democracy and Justice: Samir Haddad’, Justice: Deconstruction and Hermeneutics. Interviews with Contemporary Thinkers, ed. Sema Cevirici Atilla (Leiden: Brill, 2025): 94-112.

‘Teaching with Untranslatables in The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I’, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 31.1 (2023): 59-73.

‘Derrida on Responsibility in the University’, Anuario Filosófico 56.1 (2023): 71-99.

‘Questions of the Foreigner in Of Hospitality’, Poetics Today 42.1 (March 2021): 67-83.

‘Derrida on Language and Philosophical Education’, Studies in Philosophy and Education 40.2 (2021): 149-163.

‘More than a Mother Tongue: Derrida, Arendt, Cassin’, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41.2 (2020): 469-487.

‘Fundaciones Politicas y Derecho a la Filosofia’, translated by Jorge Laplace, Escenas de escritura: Sobre filosofia y literatura, ed. Cristóbal Olivares (Santiago de Chile: Pólvora Editorial, 2020): 127-152.

‘More than a Language to Come’, Philosophy Today 64.2 (Spring 2020): 379-394.

‘Leonard Lawlor’s Renewal of Thinking’, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 56.3 (September 2018): 393-402.

‘Derrida’s Rethinking of Professorial Authority’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 3.4 (Winter 2017): 430-445.

‘Philosophy and its Relation to Other Disciplines in Derrida's Writings on Education’, Philosophy Today 61.2 (Spring 2017): 365-377.

Graduate
French Philosophies of Education
Jacques Derrida
Language and Identity
Philosophy and Translation
Seminar on Philosophical Education

Undergraduate
Art, Morality, and Politics
Contemporary French Philosophy
Education and Democracy
Languages and Identities
Latin American Philosophy
Philosophical Ethics
Philosophy of Human Nature
Politics and Biopower
Rethinking Citizenship

Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy