Gabriel Rockhill

Who is Gabriel Rockhill?

Gabriel Rockhill is a French-American philosopher and cultural critic. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and Directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. Rockhill is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on art and politics, including his two co-edited collections Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics and Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues. In addition to numerous articles, he also edited and translated Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Aesthetics and Cornelius Castoriadis’s Postscript on Insignificance. However, his major work to date is a tome in French that provides a detailed account—via case studies on Plato, Descartes and contemporary thinkers ranging from Foucault and Derrida to Lévinas and Lyotard—of the historical and hermeneutic "shift" in philosophic practice and its consequences for contemporary theory: Logique de l’histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques.

Rockhill has broad research interests spanning contemporary philosophy and critical theory, and has published on a wide range of topics in French and English. He has also collaborated with art collectives and publications, as well as with various art galleries.