Jean-Joseph Goux

Jean-Joseph Goux is Laurence Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice University (emeritus). He was associated with the Tel Quel group in the late 1960s. Between philosophy, economy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, his work engages the field of “symbolic economy.” He taught at the University of California (San Diego, Berkeley) and at Brown University. He was program director at the College International de Philosophie in Paris and associate director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His books include Symbolic Economies (Cornell University Press, 1990), The Coiners of Languages (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), and Oedipus Philosopher (Stanford University Press, 1993). He also has published Frivolite de la valeur (Blusson, 2000) and most recently Accrochages, conflits du visuel (Des femmes, 2007); L’art et l’argent (Blusson, 2011); and Le tresor perdu de la fi nance folle (Blusson, 2013).