Dr David Macey

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Internationally renowned French scholar

With the death of Dr David Macey, we have lost an internationally renowned scholar, author and translator, whose publications mapped and excavated the terrain of contemporary French intellectual and political debates. His work was notable for the scope of the cultural and scholarly resources he brought to bear on complex and often dense topics, and for his eloquent and lucid writing which made these subjects accessible and pleasurable for a readership beyond the academy. Students around the world find their journeys into and through these debates much more navigable and engaging as a result of his Dictionary of Critical Theory …