Pol Vandevelde has studied in Belgium and Germany, and specializes in contemporary French and German phenomenology and theory of interpretation. He has authored, translated or edited 16 books and published 82 articles and book chapters.
Être et Discours. La question du langage dans l'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938). Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1994.
Awarded First Prize by the Royal Academy of Belgium.
The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning , and Negotiation. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning. London/ New York: Routledge, 2012.
He has also translated books by Heidegger, Husserl, and Apel from German into French, a book by Pierre Rousselot from French into English, and a book by Gadamer from German into English. He is a Permanent Invited Professor at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago, Chile). To see his CV, click here.
Edited, and Translated Texts:
The Selected Writings of Hans-George Gadamer: Volume I Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy, edited and translated by Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer. London: Bloomsbury Publishings, 2016.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Volume II Art, Action and the Historical Dimension of Language, edited and translated by Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming.
Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology, edited by Pol Vandevelde and Kevin Hermberg. London: Continuum, 2011.
Phenomenology and Literature, edited by Pol Vandevelde. Würzburg, Germany: Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2010.
Karl-Otto Apel, Transformation de la philosophie, volume 2, textes rassemblés et traduits sous la direction de Pol Vandevelde. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2010.
Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl’s Corpus, edited by Pol Vandevelde and Sebastian Luft. London: Continuum, 2010.
Pierre Rousselot, Essays on Love and Knowledge, ed. Andrew Tallon and Pol Vandevelde, trans. Andrew Tallon, Pol Vandevelde, and Alan Vincelette. Vol. 3 of The Collected Philosophical Works of Pierre Rousselot. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008.
Issues in Interpretation Theory, edited by Pol Vandevelde. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006.
Edmund Husserl, Autour des Méditations Cartésiennes, trans. from German by Natalie Depraz and Pol Vandevelde. Grenoble: Millon, 1998.
Paul Ricoeur, A Key to Edmund Husserl’s Ideas. Edited by Pol Vandevelde, trans. B. Harris and J. Bouchard Spurlock. Marquette University Press, 1996.
Martin Heidegger, Aristote, “Métaphysique IX 1-3.” De l'essence et de la réalité de la force, trans. from German by Bernard Stevens and Pol Vandevelde. Paris: Gallimard, 1991.