Geoffrey Bennington

Geoffrey Bennington is the Department Chair and Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. His research focuses on Modern French Literature, Deconstruction, Literary Theory, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. He has authored numerous books, including Kant on the Frontier (2017), Scatter: The Politics of Politics (2016), and Lyotard: Writing the Event (1988). His work interrogates philosophical reading, political ontology, and the limits of language. Contact: geoffrey.bennington@emory.edu.

Research explores intersections of philosophy and literature, emphasizing deconstruction's political dimensions. Key themes include frontiers in Kantian thought, Lyotard's event-based philosophy, and Derrida's influence on contemporary discourse.