Ms Raphaëlle Burns
Graduate Library Trainee
I studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge where I developed an interest in forms of government. I went on to study the historical and philosophical sources of the Western legal tradition first at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and later at Birkbeck, University of London. Since then my research has focussed on the role attributed to the imagination in different political and legal traditions. In this context, I completed an interdisciplinary MRes at the London Consortium in 2010 where I compared the legacy of Aristotelian conceptions of imagination and intellect in the works of Averroes and Giordano Bruno.
I have also worked in academic publishing at Continuum and Zed Books. I am currently working on an English translation of Deleuze: L’Empirisme Transcendental by Anne Sauvagnargues.