Nicholas Smith

Nicholas Smith is a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Stockholm (Sweden). His new researchproject, Perceptions of the Other, investigates proto-ethics of perception from the point of view of transcendental aesthetics (Levinas, Husserl), psychoanalysis (Kristeva, Lacan, Khanna), feminist philosophy (Young, Butler, Alcoff) and postcolonial thinking (Fanon, Gordon, Ahmed). See more at: www.perceptionsoftheother.se He has done research at the Husserl-archives, Leuven and taught at PUC in Rio de Janeiro. His most recent book is Towards a Phenomenology of Repression – A Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge (2010). He is co-editor of Södertörn Philosophical Studies (2003, 2014). He has written extensively on phenomenology, contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and art in Swedish, German, Brazilian, French and Japanese publications. He has also translated Ricoeur, Nietzsche, Derrida and Husserl.