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David Macey

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David Macey
Macey's publicity photograph
Macey's publicity photograph
Born(1949-10-05)5 October 1949
Sunderland, England
Died7 October 2011(2011-10-07) (aged 62)
Occupation
  • Historian
  • biographer
  • translator
NationalityEnglish
Alma materUniversity College London
Spouse
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(m. 1988)​

David Macey (5 October 1949 – 7 October 2011) was an English translator and intellectual historian of the French left. He translated around sixty books from French to English, and wrote biographical studies of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon.[1][2][3]

Life

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David Macey was born in Sunderland and grew up in Houghton-le-Spring. His father was a miner who had been sent down the pit aged fourteen, and his mother a woman whose family had been unable to afford for her to take up a grammar school place.[2][3] Macey was educated at Durham Johnston Grammar School and went on to study French at University College London,[1] where he wrote a PhD on Paul Nizan.[4]

Interested in trying to link Marxism and psychoanalysis,[1] Macey became a prolific contributor to Radical Philosophy.[2] From 1974, he taught part-time at North London Polytechnic, UCL and City University London. In 1975, he was a founding member of the British Campaign for an Independent East Timor.[3] After his partner Margaret Atack took a permanent post at Leeds University in 1981, Macey left academia to become a full-time writer and translator.[1] Later, in 1995, he was appointed research associate in the French department of Leeds University; in 2010, he became special professor in translation at the University of Nottingham.[3]

Macey married Atack in 1988, and they adopted three children.[1]

Selected works

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Translations

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Other works

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  • Lacan in Contexts, London: Verso Books, 1988.
  • The Lives of Michel Foucault, London: Hutchinson, 1993; NY: Pantheon, 1993.
  • Introduction to The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis by Jacques Lacan, tr. Alan Sheridan, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
  • Frantz Fanon: A Life, London: Granta, 2000.
  • The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory, London: Penguin, 2000.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Belton, Neil (2 November 2011). "David Macey: His historical studies of philosophers won over French readers". The Guardian.
  2. 1 2 3 Belton, Neil; Peter Osborne (January–February 2012). "David Macey, 1949–2011: Biographer of the French intellectual Left". Radical Philosophy (171).
  3. 1 2 3 4 Taylor, John G.; Elaine Capizzi (12 November 2011). "Dr David Macey: Internationally renowned French scholar". The Independent.
  4. ↑ Macey, David, The work of Paul Nizan: a study in the influence of a political viewpoint on literary themes and structures, PhD thesis, University College London, 1982.
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