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Ray Brassier
Born
Raymond Brassier

1965 (age 58–59)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • University of North London
  • University of Warwick
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Speculative realism (transcendental nihilism)
Institutions
  • Middlesex University
  • American University of Beirut
Main interests
Nihilism, realism, materialism, methodological naturalism, antihumanism
Notable ideas
Transcendental nihilism, philosophy as the "organon of extinction"[1]
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Raymond Brassier (born December 22, 1965) is a British philosopher. He is 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.

Brassier is of mixed French-Scottish ancestry, and his family name is pronounced in the French manner.

  1. ^ Brassier, Ray. Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, p. 239.

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