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Mari Ruti
1964-2023
«Mari Ruti was born in 1964 in Nuijamaa, Finland. Her family home
ran along the border of the Soviet Union and had no indoor plumbing or
running water. She emerged as a prolific writer, distinguished
scholar, and beloved teacher out of the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Through force of will and incredible discipline, Mari made it from
these humble beginnings to Harvard University, where she earned a PhD
in 2000.
Mari holds degrees from Brown (BA), Harvard (MA, PhD), and the
University of Paris (DEA), where she studied with philosopher Julia
Kristeva. At Harvard, Mari studied primarily under Alice Jardine and
Barbara Johnson and worked as a full-time lecturer until being
appointed to the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor
specializing in critical theory, psychoanalysis, continental
philosophy, phenomenology, poststructuralism, and feminist and queer
theory. Students flocked to fill her classes and work with her. Within
a short period, Mari developed into one of the preeminent theorists of
our time and was granted the position of Distinguished Professor. The
number of students that Mari inspired and encouraged is
immeasurable.
The act of writing brought Mari great joy and fulfillment. Her work
particularly allows complicated concepts to become accessible and the
most difficult thinkers to become approachable. Mari’s work on notions
of sublimation and desire emphasizes how upholding one’s singularity
through a creative act allows one to be true to one’s authentic self
and dispel the pressures of conformity coming from the social order.
Her books are wildly popular, not just with scholars whose work ranges
from queer antinormativity to ethics, but in communities of
clinicians, analysts, artists, and creative writers who find
transformative insights into the experiences of love, loss, hardship,
and how to live an ethical, examined, and meaningful life. Her many
books include Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic
Life (Other Press, 2006), A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis
and the Art of Living (SUNY Press, 2009), The Case for Falling in Love
(Sourcebooks, 2011), The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal
Within (Fordham University Press, 2012), The Call of Character: Living
a Life Worth Living (Columbia University Press, 2013), Between Levinas
and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2015), The Ethics of
Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects (Columbia University
Press, 2017), Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings (Columbia University
Press, 2018), and Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect (Bloomsbury,
2018). She has left behind a number of unpublished manuscripts that
will appear posthumously.
In 2018, Mari received a breast cancer diagnosis. When, against her
wishes, her breasts were not immediately removed, the cancer spread to
other parts of her body. Mari consulted doctors from around the world
in search of the best possible treatment for the cancer. This effort
prolonged her life beyond the estimates of nearly every doctor. When
she died, her cancer load was actually much lower than it had been
previously, indicating the success of the treatment she pursued, but
her lungs were irrevocably weakened. She died on the morning of June
8, 2023, in hospital near her home in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia,
Canada.
Mari is survived by her mother Ritva Ruti and her brother Marko Ruti.
She is predeceased by her father Jukka Ruti. Mari will also be missed
terribly by a large circle of friends, students, and colleagues all
over the world who adore her. Relationships were of paramount
importance to Mari, and she had a remarkable ability to attract
kindred souls wherever she went, building community and family around
her. She was especially adept at seeing and connecting with the
children in her life.
Mari loved and celebrated being alive. A favorite running trail, a
perfect spot for tea, the best hamachi nigiri in town, or the idyllic
ocean-view perch from which to write-she had an ability to find and
celebrate the special places around her. From her mother’s sauna
overlooking Myrajarvi lake in Finland to a banana grove in Hana, Maui
HI, from Lunenburg NS to Woods Hole MA to Vancouver BC-she found
places with which she connected, and she made them home. She found
pleasure and beauty all around her, and she had a knack for truly
relishing life. She thought deeply, wrote brilliantly, spoke honestly,
loved earnestly, laughed easily, and lived with glorious vitality. And
she never met a piece of chocolate she didn’t like.
Mari approached her illness and treatment with tenacity and
determination. She advocated for herself with ferocity, never losing
her belief in herself or her instincts. To her last days Mari’s
courage, incandescent vibrancy, and intellectual rigor was matched
only by her kind-heartedness. Mari lived by her theoretical ideals in
that she faced the existential crisis of life and treated each new
decision as a creative act.»
19642023
Décès pour la Ville Mahone-Bay, Province Nova Scotia
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