Robert Harvey (bornRobert James Harvey; 1951 inOakland,California) is a literary scholar, philosopher, and academic. He isDistinguished Professor Emeritus at theState University of New York at Stony Brook. He lectures in aesthetics, comparative literature, philosophy, and theory. His research and publications are primarily concerned with the interpenetrations of literary and philosophical discourses.
Harvey served as chair of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook until 2017, when these disciplines were summarily eliminated by "strategic" (i.e. corporate) decision. Prior to that, he had chaired the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory[1] from 2002 until 2015, and was a Program Director at theCollège International de Philosophie[2] in Paris, from 2001 until 2007. From 2017 until his retirement from Stony Brook, his academic home was theDepartment of Philosophy.
(2025)The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions. New York & London: Bloomsbury.
(2024)Parmi les gisants: penser le cimetière. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Perspectives critiques).
(2017)Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics. New York & London: Bloomsbury.
(2010)Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics. New York & London: Continuum; translated asTémoignabilité byThierry Gillyboeuf. Geneva: MetisPresses, 2015.
(2009)Les Écrits de Marguerite Duras. Bibliographie des œuvres et de la critique, 1940-2006 (with Bernard Alazet and Hélène Volat). Paris: Éditions de l'Imec.
(2006)De l'exception à la règle. USA PATRIOT Act (with Hélène Volat). Paris: Lignes & Manifestes.
(2003)Témoins d'artifice. Paris: L'Harmattan.
(2002)Les Écrits de Michel Deguy: Bibliographie des œuvres et de la critique, 1960-2000. Paris: Éditions de l'Imec.
