Daniel Smith (philosopher)

Daniel W. Smith
Born (1958-10-26) October 26, 1958
OccupationsPhilosopher and academic
Academic background
EducationPh.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, M.A. in Religious Studies, B.A. in Literature from Wheaton College in Illinois
Alma materWheaton College, University of Chicago

Daniel W. Smith, is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University, where he specializes in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He serves as the co-director of the Deleuze Seminars project.[1][2]

Education

Daniel Smith earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1997. He previously obtained an M.A. in Religious Studies from the same institution in 1983 and a B.A. in Literature from Wheaton College in Illinois. Additionally, he has studied languages at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) and Beijing Language and Culture University.[3]

Career

After obtaining his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1997, Smith served as an assistant professor at Grinnell College for the 1997-1998 academic year and was a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia from 1999 to 2001. He joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2001, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and became a Professor of Philosophy in 2014. At Purdue, he holds positions in the Department of Philosophy, the Program in Religious Studies, and the interdisciplinary program in Philosophy and Literature.[4][5][6] Smith is recognized for his interpretations of the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and is the author of "Essays on Deleuze," which has been translated into several languages, including Turkish, Slovenian, Spanish, Estonian, and Japanese. He has also translated works by Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Serres, and Isabelle Stengers into English. Since 2019, he has served as the Director of the interdisciplinary program in Philosophy and Literature at Purdue University.[7][8][9]

Research

Smith's research primarily focuses on 19th and 20th-century European philosophy. His areas of expertise include aesthetics, phenomenology, and the works of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, and Bergson, as well as social and political philosophy and the philosophy of technology.[10] He authored one of the early theses on Deleuze's philosophy and translated two of Deleuze's works into English: "Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensations" and Essays Critical and Clinical."[11][12][13]

  • The Concept of the Simulacrum: Deleuze and the Overturning of Platonism - 2005 - Continental Philosophy.[14]
  • Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics - 2007 - Parrhesia.[15][16]
  • The Pure and Empty Form of Time: Deleuze’s Theory of Temporality - 2023 - In Daniel W. Smith & Robert Luzecky, Deleuze and Time.[17]
  • Deleuze’s Theory of Sensation: Overcoming the Kantian Duality.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Daniel Smith - College of Liberal Arts - Purdue University". www.cla.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  2. ^ Press, Edinburgh University (2025-07-09). "Chasing the Dragon". Edinburgh University Press Blog. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  3. ^ Deleuze, Technology, and Thought Daniel W. Smith Purdue University. December 2018.
  4. ^ "Client Challenge". www.scribd.com. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  5. ^ "Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University) - PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  6. ^ "Daniel W. Smith". web.ics.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  7. ^ Taylor-Smith/Somers-Hall. "The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze". ndpr.nd.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-07-28. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  8. ^ "Daniel Smith - College of Liberal Arts - Purdue University". www.cla.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  9. ^ "PURR - Group: The Deleuze Seminars ~ About the Seminars". purr.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  10. ^ "Daniel Smith - Philosophy". preview.memphis.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-16.
  11. ^ 11.15 Ansell-Pearson - Smith. "Essays on Deleuze". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2025-02-17. Retrieved 2026-02-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Smith, Daniel (2012). Essays on Deleuze. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  13. ^ Francis Bacon: the logic of sensation GILLES DELEUZE Translated from the French by Daniel W. Smith. ISBN 978-0-8264-6647-1
  14. ^ Smith, Daniel W. (2005). "The Concept of the Simulacrum: Deleuze and the Overturning of Platonism". Continental Philosophy Review. 38 (1–2): 89–123. doi:10.1007/s11007-006-3305-8.
  15. ^ Smith, Daniel W. (2007). "Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics". Parrhesia. 2: 66–78.
  16. ^ Smith, Daniel W. (2011), Smith, Daniel; Jun, Nathan (eds.), "Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Towards an Immanent Theory of Ethics", Deleuze and Ethics, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 123–141, ISBN 978-0-7486-4629-6, retrieved 2026-02-16{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  17. ^ Smith, Daniel W. (2023), Smith, Daniel W.; Luzecky, Robert (eds.), "The Pure and Empty Form of Time: Deleuze?s Theory of Temporality", Deleuze and Time, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 45–72, retrieved 2026-02-16
  18. ^ Smith, Daniel W. (1991), Patton, Paul (ed.), "Deleuze?s Theory of Sensation: Overcoming the Kantian Duality", Deleuze: A Critical Reader, Blackwell, pp. 29–56, retrieved 2026-02-16
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