Jacques Lezra

Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California--Riverside. His books include On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (2010), and Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997). He is coeditor, with Emily Apter and Michael Wood, of Barbara...See more

Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California--Riverside. His books include On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (2010), and Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997). He is coeditor, with Emily Apter and Michael Wood, of Barbara Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables (2014), and, with Liza Blake, of Lucretius and Modernity (2016), and he has translated books by Paul de Man, Etienne Balibar, and Alain Badiou. See less