The call in the thought of Lévinas, Marion and Chrétien

Setting out from an analysis of the notion of the call in the works of Lévinas and his adherents, my task will be to show how that which is presented as description of a phenomenon is in fact the deconstruction of the text of tradition. In order to accomplish this, it will be apposite first to carry out an overview of the uses of the notion of the call in order to flesh out its recurring constants; subsequently, it will become possible to demonstrate the ways in which description is entirely dependent on a prerequisite act of deconstruction. That phenomenological description should thus be dependent on deconstruction explains why, in all theses texts, the notion of the call is a description of trauma which cannot account for all the dimensions of the call—such as the artistic dimension of the call exemplified by Alberti and analysed here through the example of Carvaggio's The Calling of Saint Matthew.

Le labyrinthe de l’idéalisme: Scepticisme, réalisme et idéalisme dans l’élaboration de la « Doctrine de la science » de 1794

Why was Kantian idealism so inadequate in Fichte’s eyes that he needed to re-found the whole of philosophy in his Grundlage, based on a thorough re-examination of the intricacies of idealism leading to its ultimate re-definition? In order to answer this question, I will first examine the original question of the «Science of knowledge » (94/95). I will then analyze the meaning of how Fichte, in the Grundlage, typologizes various realisms and idealisms as being either qualitative, quantitative or abstract. This will allow me to show that Fichtean idealism is not determined by any kind of « philosophy of the subject » but rather by the question of the ideality of statement as raised by the problem of the nature of the enunciation of philosophic speech. As a conclusion, I will show how contemporary realism, which is characteristically critical of « idealism », is profoundly mistaken on two fundamental questions: firstly, because it establishes a link between idealism and subjectivity whereas it has been linked to ideality; secondly, because it defines idealism in the light of the categories of reality and of the existence of the thing whereas it is above all about the question of how one ascertains meaning

Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus

Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising; but, in spite of our enhanced awareness, little deliberate attention is devoted to modeling or grounding such phenomena. Attending to both linguistic and extra-linguistic modalities of chiasmus (the X figure), a group of anthropologists has recently embraced this challenge. Applied to contemporary problems in linguistic anthropology, chiasmus functions to highlight and enhance relationships of interdependence or symbiosis between contraries, including anthropology’s four fields, the nature of human being and facets of being human

Science de la science et réflexivité dans la Wissenschaftslehre de 1813

Bien que constitué de textes fragmentaires, le dernier moment de la philosophie de Fichte n’en paraît pas moins reprendre les grandes lignes de partage de son enseignement antérieur. C’est ainsi qu’à côté d’une Logique transcendantale, nous trouvons aussi bien, comme dans les périodes précédentes, des Conférences d’introduction à la doctrine de la science, que des Faits de conscience, qui souvent annoncent l’enseignement de la doctrine de la science « proprement dite ». De même, comme par le ..