Alexander Garcia Düttmann

Alexander García Düttmann is a philosopher and translator. After growing up in Barcelona, he studied philosophy with Alfred Schmidt in Frankfurt and Jacques Derrida in Paris. Since 1992, he has lived in San Francisco, New York, Melbourne, and for 20 years in London. He has taught at the Universities Stanford, Essex, Monash, New York, Middlesex, Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. Since 2014, he has been Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Art History and Aesthetics at Berlin University of the Arts.

He is the author of numerous books. His most recent publications include Kaputt: Essay über Gewalt (Kaputt: Essay on Violence) (2024), Die Hoffnungslosen (The Hopeless) (2021), Lob der Jugend (In Praise of Youth) (2021), Love Machine: Der Ursprung des Kunstwerks (Love Machine: The Origin of the Work of Art) (2018). In 2023, with Marcus Quent, he edited the volume Die Apokalypse enttäuscht: Atomtod Klimakatastrophe Kommunismus (The Apocalypse is Disappointing: Nuclear Death Climate Catastrophe Communism). He is also the translator (into German) of Jacques Derrida’s De l’esprit (1988), Force de loi (1991) and L’autre cap (1992), Jean-Luc Nancy’s L’Intrus (2000) and Cruor (2022). In 2017, he edited Jacques Derrida’s Théorie et pratique: Seminaire 1976-1977. In 2019, he appeared in Albert Serra’s film Liberté.