Ray Brassier

Ray Brassier
Born	Raymond Brassier 1965 (age 58–59) London, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of North London University of Warwick
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Speculative realism (transcendental nihilism)
Institutions	Middlesex University American University of Beirut
Main interests	Nihilism, realism, materialism, methodological naturalism, antihumanism, Marxism
Notable ideas	Transcendental nihilism, philosophy as the "organon of extinction"[1]

Raymond Brassier (/brəˈsiər/;^[2] born December 22, 1965) is a British philosopher. He is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London, England.

Brassier is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction and the translator of Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and Theoretical Writings and Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. He first attained prominence as a leading authority on the works of François Laruelle.

More recently Brassier has engaged with Marxism and the work of the German-American political theorist Paul Mattick.^[3] In August 2024 it was announced that Brassier would be joining Kyung Hee University as a visiting professor in the Department of British & American Language and Culture, and in 2025 teach a masters course on Marxism and literature with the British theorist and filmmaker Jason Barker.^[4]

Brassier is of mixed French-Scottish ancestry.