Deborah Cook

Deborah Cook (October 12, 1954 – October 6, 2020) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, and post-structuralism. Cook received her BA and MA from the University of Ottawa and her PhD from the Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1985, where her dissertation was on the "Phénoménologie de la Lecture du Roman" under the supervision of Olivier Revault d’Allonnes. She also studied with Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault while at the Sorbonne. From 1988 to 2019, Cook was a professor at the University of Windsor, becoming the philosophy department's longest-serving faculty member. Her work extensively covered the critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno, resulting in five books and over 30 articles dedicated to his work.