Cillian

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED)

  1. Cillian Ó Fathaigh, “‘The New Bourdieu’: The Public Intellectual in the Shared Interventions of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida“, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Online First (2025), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2025.2519267 SJR Q2.
  2. Cillian Ó Fathaigh, “Literature as a Mode of Thought”, Philosophy & Society, 35.4 (2024): 783–802.
  3. Cillian Ó Fathaigh, “Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou”, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, 49.6 (2024): 576–589 https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhae032. SJR Q1.
  4. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. ““What is Proper to a Culture”: Identification and Ethics in Jacques Derrida and Amartya Sen”, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 29.1 (2024): 131–143. SJR Q1.
  5. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Democracy, Community and the Supplement Plus Un”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50.3 (2024): 491–506. SJR Q1.
  6. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Responding to the COVID-19 Care Home Crisis: Images, Freedom, and the Unrealizable in The Coming of Age”, Simone de Beauvoir Studies 33.2 (2023): 290–308.
  7. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. ““Radio, That Unknown”: Periodicals, Media and Post-WWII European Public Space in La Nouvelle équipe française”, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 8.1 (2023): 60–74.
  8. Cillian Ó Fathaigh & A. Thacker, “The Matter of Europe”, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 8 (2023): 1–8.
  9. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Critical Institutions: Alternative Modes of Institutionalisation in Derrida’s Engagements”, Derrida Today, 14.2 (2021): 169-185. SJR Q2.
  10. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. ‘Kofman’s Creative Affirmation: Moral Law, Dom Juan & Limits of Maternal Debt’, Paragraph: A Modern Journal of Critical Theory, 44.1 (2021): 11–25. SJR Q1.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Politics and Collectivity in Derrida’s Cinema”, Derrida & Film, ed. Kamil Lipiński & Andrzej Marzec (Leiden: Brill, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004729186_016
  2. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “‘No Accounting for Taste’: Aesthesis and Decolonial Thought,”in Philosophy across Borders: Perspectives from Contemporary Theory, ed. G. Rae, E. Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2024): 176–197.
  3. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Politics of Plasticity: Catherine Malabou´s Anarchic Agents,” in Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (New York: Routledge, 2024): 201–224.
  4. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Is there a Politics to Friendship?: Derrida’s Critique of the Couple in Montaigne, Kant and Levinas”, in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity, ed. Luke Collison, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: EUP, 2022): 58-67.
  5. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Welcome Friends: Reading Derrida’s Politics of Friendship”, with Luke Collison and Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: EUP, 2022): 1-32.

BOOK CHAPTERS (FORTHCOMING/UNDER REVIEW)

  1. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Beyond Violent Transformation: Intersubjective Transformation in Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings,” in Transformations in Contemporary French Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, in press, 2026).
  2. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “The Reception of Levinas within Great Britain” in Emmanuel Levinas: Handbook (Verlag J. B. Metzler, in press, 2026).
  3. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Beauvoir’s Unrealizables” in Simone de Beauvoir (London: Bloomsbury, in press, 2026).
  4. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Derrida’s Generosity” in Critique, Reason and Politics: Adventures in Contemporary Critical Theory (Edinburgh UP, under contract).

EDITED VOLUMES:

  1. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Critique, Reason and Politics: Adventures in Contemporary Critical Theory, ed. with G. Rae, E. Ingala (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, under contract)
  2. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Transformations in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. with G. Rae and E. Ingala (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, in press).
  3. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism, ed. with G. Rae (New York: Routledge, 2024)
  4. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Derrida’s Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity, ed. with Luke Collison & Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
  5. Cillian Ó Fathaigh. #NousSommes: Collectivity and the Digital in French Thought and Culture, ed. with Susie Cronin and Sofia Ropek Hewson (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020).

MONOGRAPHS:

  1. In Preparation: Cillian Ó Fathaigh, Jacques Derrida’s Institutions Beyond Critique. Proposal & Full Manuscript near-completion.