Trigg, Dylan

Dylan Trigg was born on May 18, 1978 in Hertfordshire , United Kingdom . He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Birkbeck (University of London) in 2004, a master's degree in aesthetics at the University of Sussex in 2005. In the same place, in 2009, he received a doctoral degree in philosophy, the thesis topic “Memory and Place: A Phenomenological Study” (“Memory and Place: a Phenomenological Study”).

In 2011—2013 worked with the support of at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris : first at the Center for Applied Epistemology Research (Center de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée ( École Polytechnique )), then with the archives of Edmund Husserl (Husserl Archives, ( École Normale Supérieure )) .

He married in Paris in 2014.

From 2012 to 2013 he lived in Dublin , worked as a teacher at University College Dublin . From 2014 to 2016, he lived and worked in Memphis , Tennessee , USA , teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis .

In 2016–2017 returned to Paris, since 2017 he has been working in Austria at the University of Vienna .

Dylan Trigg's philosophy is a project of renewing the phenomenological tradition and giving it " vitality and dynamism ." Claiming the primacy of the body to constitute its “I”, “Inhuman phenomenology” or “phenomenology of horror”, developed by Trigg, avoids falling into the “correlation circle” ^{[1] of} post-Kantian philosophy and all previous phenomenology. This is due to the fact that the said primary body is not necessarily perceived as human.

By defining such a bodily subject, which “ is not at all obliged to be a human subject, ” Dylan Trigg also breaks with the ethical component of the phenomenology preceding it, emanating from a sense of unity and coherence in the phenomenological experience. The latter is lost by the subject of new phenomenology due to its fragmentation: having a human affective experience as a starting point, Trigg explores horror (defined as “ experiencing oneself as another ”) and non-human neighboring with a human body ^[2] .

Based on the work of Husserl , Levinas and Merlot-Ponty , Dylan Trigg really develops the existing tradition (rather than “starts anew”), showing that phenomenology remains relevant after new twists and turns of continental philosophy and can respond to Quentin Meias's anti-correlational challenges. ^[3]

• The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason (New York: Peter Lang, 2006)
• The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012 [Paperback: 2013])
• The Thing: a Phenomenology of Horror (Winchester: Zero Books, 2014)
• Topophobia: a Phenomenology of Anxiety (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)

In Russian

• Dylan Trigg. Something: the phenomenology of horror. - Perm: Hyle Press, 2017. - 174 p. - ISBN 978-5-9906611-5-8 .
• Anton Zankovsky . Something of the Nemean Forest: Snob, Warlock, Animal. // Anton Zankovsky. Aristotle and port whores. - SPb: CHAOSSS / PRESS, 2019. C.19-28.

• Phenomenology
• Speculative realism

• Dylan Trigg's official website
• Dylan Trigg's current study page on the University of Vienna website
• Google Scholar Profile
• Interview with the philosopher in the journal Figure / Ground
• The philosopher's page on the ResearchGate portal