Ray Brassier

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 719 citations indexed

About

Ray Brassier is a scholar working on Philosophy, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ray Brassier has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 719 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Philosophy, 4 papers in Clinical Psychology and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ray Brassier's work include Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (4 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 papers) and Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 papers). Ray Brassier is often cited by papers focused on Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (4 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 papers) and Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 papers). Ray Brassier collaborates with scholars based in Lebanon, United Kingdom and Slovakia. Ray Brassier's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Radical philosophy and Continental Philosophy Review.

In The Last Decade

Ray Brassier

19 papers receiving 473 citations

Hit Papers

After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
    2008 454 citations Ray Brassier et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ray Brassier Lebanon 6 232 196 114 109 99 24 719
Catherine Malabou France 16 256 1.1× 212 1.1× 83 0.7× 106 1.0× 50 0.5× 86 722
Constantin Boundas Canada 6 207 0.9× 302 1.5× 151 1.3× 136 1.2× 42 0.4× 22 843
Keith Ansell‐Pearson United Kingdom 11 292 1.3× 188 1.0× 65 0.6× 72 0.7× 30 0.3× 57 638
Steven Shaviro United States 10 112 0.5× 218 1.1× 146 1.3× 157 1.4× 36 0.4× 44 726
Henri Bergson Canada 15 240 1.0× 182 0.9× 57 0.5× 46 0.4× 88 0.9× 62 780
Georges Didi‐Huberman France 16 151 0.7× 212 1.1× 158 1.4× 79 0.7× 40 0.4× 150 959
Edmond Wright United States 7 148 0.6× 208 1.1× 68 0.6× 61 0.6× 54 0.5× 22 518
Vіncent Descombes France 16 195 0.8× 338 1.7× 79 0.7× 49 0.4× 52 0.5× 69 736
Daniel Smith United States 12 211 0.9× 172 0.9× 70 0.6× 80 0.7× 25 0.3× 48 519
François Dosse France 14 127 0.5× 272 1.4× 55 0.5× 68 0.6× 22 0.2× 86 639

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brassier, Ray. (2017). Concepts and Objects. Philosophical Literary Journal Logos. 27(3). 227–260. 3 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2017). Le néant déchaîné. Presses Universitaires de France eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2016). Dialectics Between Suspicion and Trust. 4(1). 98–113. 2 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2013). That Which is Not: Philosophy as Entwinement of Truth and Negativity. 1(1). 174–186. 1 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2013). Nominalism, Naturalism, and Materialism: Sellars’s Critical Ontology. 111–124. 1 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2011). Lived Experience and the Myth of the Given: Bergson and Sellars. 32(3).
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Brassier, Ray, et al.. (2011). I Am a Nihilist Because I Still Believe in Truth. 5 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2011). The View from Nowhere. 8(2). 7–23. 3 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray, et al.. (2009). Transitzone/Against an Aesthetics of Noise. 1 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2008). The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze's Ontological Proposition. 19. 2 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray, et al.. (2008). After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 454 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brassier, Ray, et al.. (2007). Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis. Leuven University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2007). Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 111 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2007). Nihil Unbound. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 105 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2007). Le genre est obsolète. Multitudes. n o 28(1). 167–173.
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Brassier, Ray. (2005). Badiou's Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics. Angelaki. 10(2). 135–150. 4 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2004). Alain Badiou: theoretical writings. 1 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2003). Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theology. Radical philosophy. 118. 8 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2003). Axiomatic heresy: the non-philosophy of François Laruelle. Radical philosophy. 121. 8 indexed citations
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Brassier, Ray. (2003). Solar Catastrophe: Lyotard, Freud, and the Death-Drive. Philosophy Today. 47(4). 421–430. 2 indexed citations

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