Daniel W. Smith | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Philosopher |
Academic background | |
Education | B.A., English and American Literature M.A., Religious Studies Ph.D., Philosophy |
Alma mater | Wheaton College University of Chicago |
Thesis | Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference: Toward a Transcendental Empiricism |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Purdue University |
Daniel W. Smith (born October 26, 1958) is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University, where his work is focused on 19th and 20th century continental philosophy.[1]
Smith is known for his interpretation of the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and is the author of Essays on Deleuze, which has been partially translated into Turkish, Slovenian, Spanish, Estonian, and Japanese. He has translated into English texts by Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Serres, and Isabelle Stengers.[2]
He is the co-director of The Deleuze Seminars project.[3]