Robert Hurley

Robert Hurley is a translator who has translated the work of several leading French philosophers into English, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Georges Bataille. For example, he led the team translating selections from Foucault's three-volume Dits et écrits (1954–88).

Works Translations (with Mark Seem and Helen P. Lane) Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, New York: Viking, 1977 Pierre Clastres, Society against the State: the leader as servant and the human uses of power among the Indians of the Americas, 1977 Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. Volume 1, 1979 Jacques Donzelot, The Policing of Families, 1980 Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, San Francisco: City Light Books, 1988 Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: an Essay on General Economy. Volume 1: Consumption, Zone Books, 1988. Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion, Zone Books, 1989 Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: an Essay on General Economy. Volume 2: The History of Eroticism, Zone Books, 1993 Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: an Essay on General Economy. Volume 3: Sovereignty, Zone Books, 1993 Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, 2000 The Invisible Committee, To Our Friends, Semiotext(e), 2015 The Invisible Committee, Now, Semiotext(e), 2017 Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis, Semiotext(e), 2020

Edited works (with Pierre-Marie beaude) Poétique du Divin, 2001