Daniel Heller-Roazen is a Canadian writer and academic. He is currently the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. His books have been translated into many languages. [1]
Life
Daniel Heller-Roazen was born in Canada in 1974[2]. After studying philosophy at the University of Toronto, he took a masters in German from Johns Hopkins University. He gained his PhD in comparative literature in 2000, translating the work of Giorgio Agamben as a graduate student, before starting to teach at Princeton. In 2010 he was awarded the Medal of the Collège de France.[3] [2]
Books
- (ed. and tr.) Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy by Giorgio Agamben, 1999
- Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency, 2003
- Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, 2005
- The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, 2007. Winner of the Modern Language Association's 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
- The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations, 2009
- (ed.) The Arabian Nights, Norton Critical Edition, 2010
- The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World, 2011
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Daniel Heller-Roazen
- ^ Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, conveys complex ideas clearly - in 10 languages, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Vol. 95, No. 11 (December 5, 2005). Accessed 29 April 2013.
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