Anne O’Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She works on radical democracy, feminism, genocide, and natality, drawing on 20th century and contemporary European philosophy. She is the author of The Genocide Paradox: Democracy and Generational Being (Fordham, 2023) and Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), co-editor of Logics of Genocide: Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World (Routledge, 2020), and translator of several works by Jean-Luc Nancy including Being Singular Plural (Stanford, 1996), Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality (Fordham, 2013), and Derrida: Supplements (Fordham, 2023). Articles and book chapters include: “Generational Being,” “Umbilicus: Toward a Hermeneutics of Generational Difference,” “The Ugly Psyche: Arendt and the Right to Opacity,” and “Lessons from Anarchist Eugenics.”
Anne O’Byrne