St John's College
St John's Street
Cambridge
CB2 1TP
United Kingdom
The question of religious belief occupies a critical place in French intellectual history. Marie Chabbert’s research explores the directions that the debates surrounding religious freedom and pluralism have taken in twentieth and twenty-first century France in the face of the two World Wars, the dismemberment of colonial empires, the emergence of globalisation and the so-called ‘return of religion’. In her doctoral thesis, Dr Chabbert has demonstrated that, through their engagements with the concept of the death of God, Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Luc Nancy query the boundaries between the religious and the profane, theism and atheism, thereby inaugurating new perspectives for thinking the increased fluidity of the religious in the postsecular world. Building on these findings, she is now interrogating what she identifies as a rapprochement between religious faith and scientific reasoning in contemporary French thought as a result of the growing postsecular and ecological demand to reconsider the way in which we understand ourselves and our place in the universe.
Dr Chabbert holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, an MPhil in Comparative European Culture from the University of Cambridge, and a Double-BA in Politics and Lettres Modernes from Sciences Po Paris and La Sorbonne Paris IV.
As part of a wider commitment to public engagement in the humanities, Marie Chabbert works as a freelance journalist for the French newspaper Le Monde and is a regular contributor to the intellectual magazine Esprit. She is also an Executive Committee member of the European Interfaith Youth Network of Religions for Peace, the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s religions dedicated to promoting multi-religious cooperation for peace. In January 2021, she was chosen by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and United Nations Counter-Terrorism Center to become one of the 18 “Young Religious Leader” from Europe and the Middle-East in their Edin (Empowering Dialogue & Interfaith Networks) programme.
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French philosophy and critical theory
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature and culture
- Translation from and into French
- Recent and contemporary French philosophy
- Contemporary philosophy of religion
- The intersection between French thought and the anthropology of religion
- The debate between science and religion and its recent developments
Forthcoming
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Deconstructive Ethics and the Naming of God’, DERRIDA: Ethics in Deconstruction, ed. Barry Stocker, Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 29:3-4, forthcoming 06.2024, pag. to be confirmed.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘The Radical Theologian as Whistle-Blower: Changing the Manner in Which the Faithful are Counted with John D. Caputo’, The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Weak Theology, ed. Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci (London: Rowman & Littlefield), forthcoming 07.2022, pag. to be confirmed.
Chabbert, Marie, and Nikolaas Deketelaere (eds). The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, forthcoming 04.2022 (London: Routledge).
Published in English
Chabbert, Marie, and Nikolaas Deketelaere (eds). The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26:3-4, 07.2021.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘The Eternal Return of Religion: Jean-Luc Nancy on Faith in the Singular-Plural’, in The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26:3-4, 207-224.
Chabbert, Marie, and Nikolaas Deketelaere. ‘Editorial Introduction: The Conduct of Sense’, in The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26:3-4, 4-11.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Towards a Sacrificial Aneconomy? Georges Bataille and the Aporia of Sacrifice’, in Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy, ed. by Brian Nail and Jeffrey Ellsworth (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp.23-43.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘The Pure Experience of Impurity: Georges Bataille, a Stain in/on the History of French Thought’, in Stains//les taches: Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, ed. by Zoe Angelis and Blake Gutt (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019), pp.163-80.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘On Becoming-Secular: Gilles Deleuze and the Death of God’, in The Sacred in the Secular, ed. by Daisy Gudmunsen and Claudia Dellacasa, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 13, 12.2018, 50-59.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘“What Forced Men to Kill Their Own Kind in Religious Ceremonies”? Anthropology and Metaphysics of Sacrifice in the Work of Georges Bataille and René Girard’, in Bonds & Boundaries, ed. by Alexandra R. A. Lee, Tropos: Journal of Comparative Cultural Inquiry, 3:1, 12.2015, 58-66.
Published in French
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Une perte irréparable… Hommage à Jean-Luc Nancy’, Revue Esprit, N°480, 12.2021, 3-13.
Chabbert, Marie, and Nikolaas Deketelaere. ‘Souvenir de Jean-Luc Nancy : Le colloque d’Oxford’ – and its translation, ‘Memory of Jean-Luc Nancy : The Oxford Conference’, Crossing: The INPR Journal, Fall 2021, v-ix.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Être avec Charlie’, Revue Esprit, N°471, 01.2021, n.pag.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Apprendre à refaire société’, Revue Esprit, N°470, 12.2020, 13-17.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Liberté, Egalité… Totalité ? Décrypter les dangers de #JeSuis avec Jean-Luc Nancy’, in #NousSommes: Collectivity and the Digital in French Thought and Culture, ed. by Susie Cronin, Sofia Hewson, and Cillian O’ Fathaigh (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020), pp.85-100.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Dieu’, in Le Dictionnaire Critique Georges Bataille, ed. by Nicola Apicella and Monika Marczuk, Cahiers Bataille, 4, 03.2019, 71-74.
Chabbert, Marie. ‘Georges Bataille et le pas au-delà du sacrifice’, in Leçon d’économie générale : l’expérience-limite chez Bataille-Blanchot-Klossowski, ed. by Alain Milon (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Nanterre, 2019), pp.191-204.
English Translations
Nancy, Jean-Luc. ‘The World’s Fragile Skin’, trans. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, in The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26:3-4, 07.2021, 12-16.
Falque, Emmanuel. ‘Spread Body and Exposed Body: Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy’, trans. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, in The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26:3-4, 07.2021, 126-138.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. ‘An Accordion Tune’, trans. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, in The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26:3-4, 07.2021, 239-242.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. ‘A Coming Without Past or Future’, trans. by Nikolaas Deketelaere and Marie Chabbert, in Jean-Luc Nancy, Doing, trans. by Charlotte Mandell (Salt Lake City: Seagull Books, 2020), pp.93-111.
French Translations
Berengarten, Richard. Lumière noire, trans. by Marie Chabbert. Publisher to be confirmed; translation of the 14 poems from Black Light completed, forthcoming.
Chabbert, Marie, Rigaud, Margaret, et Anthony Rudolf (eds). L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, Revue NU(e), 64, 10.2017.
Nikolaou, Paschalis et Richard Berengarten, ‘L’œuvre : ses forms et ses voix’, trad. de Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
Berengarten, Richard. ‘Cigales (I)’, trad. de Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
Berengarten, Richard. ‘Cigales (II)’, trad. de Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
Berengarten, Richard. ‘Simplement le miracle ordinaire’, trad. de Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
Berengarten, Richard. ‘Extraits de Manuel (2014)’, trad. de Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
Derrick, Paul Scott. ‘Manuel: toutes les mains applaudissent’, trad. de Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
Berengarten, Richard. ‘Extraits de Imagèmes (2013)’, trad. d’Elodie Broad et Marie Chabbert, L’œuvre poétique de Richard Berengarten, ed. par Marie Chabbert, Margaret Rigaud et Anthony Rudolf, Revue NU(e), 64, n.pag.
