Bio

Ramona Naddaff is currently researching a book on censorship and the novel in 19th and 20th-century France, England and the United States. Her forthcoming study, "Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic" (University of Chicago, Fall 2002) examines the relation, forged through the mechanism of censorship, between philosophy and literature. Drawing on this work, she is examining western philosophical and literary theories of lying from Plato to Derrida. She is also co-director and editor of Zone Books, a non-profit publishing house in New York.

Areas of Interest

Ancient Greek philosophy and literature, Theory of the Novel, History of philosophy, Contemporary French thought, Aesthetics

Selected Publications

Censorship and the Novel: Case Studies in the Politics of Reading (The New Press, forthcoming).

Producing Censorship: The Exile of Poetry in Plato's Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

"Myth, Errors and Dreams: The Return of Plato," Classical Philology, vol. 96. no. 2, April 2001, pp. 173-87.

General Editor, A History of French Thought Since 1945, vols. 1 (History), 2 (Literary Criticism) and 3 (Classics) (Philosophy), (New York: The New Press, May 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003).

Series Editor, Zone Readers, New York: Zone Books. The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France, edited by Michel Feher; The Decadent Reader, edited by Astrid Hustvedt.

Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Zone, vols. 3-5, edited with Michel Feher and Nadia Tazi (New York: Zone Books, 1989).