Robert Hurley is a translator who has translated into English the work of several leading French philosophers, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Georges Bataille. For example, he led the team translating selections from Foucault's three-volume Dits et écrits, 1954-88.
(with Mark Seem and Helen P. Lane) Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, New York: Viking, 1977
Pierre Clastres, Society against the State: the leader as servant and the human uses of power among the Indians of the Americas, 1977
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. Volume 1, 1979
Jacques Donzelot, The Policing of Families, 1980
Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, San Francisco: City Light Books, 1988
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: an Essay on General Economy. Volume 1: Consumption, Zone Books, 1988. ISBN 978-0-942299-10-6
Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion, Zone Books, 1989
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: an Essay on General Economy. Volume 2: The History of Eroticism, Zone Books, 1993
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: an Essay on General Economy. Volume 3: Sovereignty, Zone Books, 1993
Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, 2000
(with Pierre-Marie beaude) Poétique du Divin, 2001
