Mr Denis Chevrier-Bosseau

Post:	School Tutor in Law (Law)
Other posts:	School Tutor in Politics (Politics)
	School Tutor (English)
Email:	D.Chevrier-Bosseau@sussex.ac.uk

What is this?

Biography

Denis BOSSEAU held lecturship posts in Politics and Philosophy at Birkbeck College (University of London – School of Social Science, History and Philosophy), in Politics at Brighton University, and has been working as a school tutor in Philosophy, Politics, Law, Sociology, and History at the University of Sussex since 2016. He obtained a PhD in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex in 2023 as an affiliate of the interdisciplinary research Centre for Social and Political Thought with the thesis: Spectres of Lenin: rethinking political power & revolutionary strategy in the light of a contested heritage.  Denis has published journal articles and book chapters in the fields of Social Philosophy and Political Theory, and co-edited two volumes, the latest one being an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the contemporary relevance of J.J. Rousseau for social and political thought entitled Rousseau Today – Interdisciplinary essays (Palgrave, 2023). He is currently working on a monograph based on my doctoral research and have an article under review entitled ‘“Seize the Time” – Abolition & Revolutionary at the Crossroads’ to be published with Historical Materialism (Journal of Marxist Critical Analysis). 

Recent publications: 

• (2023) Rousseau Today: Interdisciplinary Essays. (Ed.) Denis Bosseau, Neal Harris, Ployjai Pintobtang. NY: Palgrave Macmillan/ Political Philosophy and Public Purpose | Book series home (springer.com)
• (2022) Critical Theory Today: On The Limits & Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition. (Ed.) Denis C. Bosseau and Tom Bunyard. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Critical Theory Today | SpringerLink
• (2021) 'The Revolt of the Maladjusted: Defacing the Currency of Social Pathology Diagnosis in Contemporary Critical Theory' in Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research - New Applications and Explorations | Neal Harris | Palgrave Macmillan

Role

Visiting/ Guest Lecturer and School Tutor

• School of Law, Politics and Sociology
• School of Media, Art and Humanities

Other post: Examiner, Board of Examiners Philosophy BA, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London. Malet Street London, WC1E 7HX

Birkbeck email: d.chevrier-bosseau@bbk.ac.uk

Qualifications

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2023        PhD Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex

2012        MA Philosophy, University College London (UCL)

2010        BA Social Anthropology, University of Sussex

Higher Education Teaching Qualifications:

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academic (2017)

Activities

10^th – 13^th November 2022 (SOAS, London) – Historical Materialism Annual Conference (Facing the Abyss An Epoch of Permanent War and Counterrevolution). Talk:“Fighting Unity” As a Strategic Problem in the Face of the Counter-Revolution

26^th June – 28^th June 2019 (Coventry) - Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, ‘What is Philosophy? Present, Past, Future’. Paper presented: ‘The Contemporaneity of Philosophy’.

11^th October – 14^th October 2018 – 29^th International Nietzsche Congress (Naumburg, Germany); title of the paper presented:Thinking Out of Season: Nietzsche and the Philosophical Problem of Contemporaneity.

30^th June- 1^st July 2018 – University of Bonn (Germany) –as a participant in theSummer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy, The Philosophy of Events. The University of Bonn, 30^th June 7^th July, 2018 hosted by the International Centre for Philosophy NRW.

31^st May 2017, Exhibition organised by One Cannot Be Too Careful (St Petersburg/Brighton) – Exhibition or censored Art from Brighton (UK), Ukraine, and Russia. Public Talk: Censorship and Contemporary Art – a philosophical perspective

15^th to 16^th of September 2016, University of Sussex.

Conference Title: Resistance in Intellectual History and Social and Political Thought. Paper presented: ‘Contesting the Present – Nietzsche and Resistance in the age of Whistle-blowers’

25^th to 27^th of August 2016, Regent’s University London.

The SEP/FEB conference - Paper presented: ‘Contesting the Present – Nietzsche and Resistance at the age of Whistle-blowers’

AS RESPONDANT:

24^th of June 2016, University of Sussex: Chair of Panel for the annual Phenomenology Conference hosted by the University of Sussex.

3^rd & 4^th of May 2016, University of Sussex: “Heidegger on Technology”. This conference brought together contributors to the volume Heidegger on Technology (Routledge, 2020) with the goal of generating a critical dialogue on the topic of Technology.

18^th & 19^th of November 2015, University of Sussex: “Conceptualizing Resistance – Contexts, Experiences, and Theories”. This two-day symposium brought together prominent researchers in the broad field of resistance studies with panels of Sussex researchers from across the school of HAHP, MFM and Global Studies.