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46This paper explores notions of realism, evidence, undecidability and faith in the context of our relationship with images following the digital revolution and the transition from a culture of analog photographic and filmic records to the new space-time of virtual reality. The argument provide a reappraisal of modern and post-modern conceptions of the photographic image and of film, which have queried the inherent realism of the indexical photographic sign, and have highlighted the fraught ontolo…Read more
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15This article provides a re-assessment of Lev Shestov's existential philosophy in the context of the early French reception of Husserlian phenomenology.
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7Léon Chestov: Le Pouvoir des clés (edited book)Le Bruit du Temps. 2010.An introduction to Lev Shestov's life, existential philosophy and legacy in the context of late 20th-C French thought.
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29Fondane-Artaud: une pensée au-delà des catégoriesEurope 827 (827): 143-150. 1998.A comparative analysis of Fondane's and Artaud's conceptions of the theatre and of their engagement with the cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
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10This essay on Benjamin Fondane's relationship to Lev Shestov was published as a postface to the new critical edition of Fondane's book of memoirs, Rencontres avec Léon Chestov, which provides a compelling account of the relationship of the influential existential thinker with French and German intellectuals during the late 1920s and in the run up to the Second World War.
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25Quand "l'esprit rencontre la nuit": révolte et déraison selon CamusCahiers de la Mediterrannee. 2016.An analysis of Camus' relationship to Lev Shestov and existential thought, with reference to Le Mythe de Sisyphe, L'Homme révolté, Camus' polemic with Fondane, and related notebooks, diaries and manuscript documents in private and public archival collections.
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5The exhibition organised by the Shestov Studies Society in Paris marks Lev Shestov's 150th anniversary, and provides an overview of his relationship with French and German writers and philosophers, as well as of his legacy in post-war literature and thought.
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16Evidence et conscienceIn N. A. Struve & Alice Laurent (eds.), Léon Chestov: un philosophe pas comme les autres?, Institut D'études Slaves. pp. 111-125. 1996.A historical and analytical presentation of Lev Shestov's existential critique of Husserl's theory of self-evident truth.
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11This is an introduction to the first critical edition of Lev Shestov's essay on Bolshevism, for which I also provided the annotations. This publication is part of the new critical edition of Lev Shestov's works in French, which I have been asked to coordinate.
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12Léon Chestov : la pensée du dehors (edited book)Le Bruit du Temps. 2016.Exhibition catalogue devoted to the life and work of Lev Shestov, scheduled to mark the author's 150th anniversary in 2016. The critical essays in this volume re-trace Shestov's intellectual biography, his French and German reception, and his legacy in post-war literature and thought
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25God no longer amusesTimes Literary Supplement 5781 25-25. 2014.Book-review of the new critical edition of Benjamin Fondane's Théâtre complet and his philosophical writings, La Conscience malheureuse.
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112This book examines the polemics and interactions between existential thought and the mainstream Surrealist movement and its dissidents. Two different conceptions of the absurd emerge from this confrontation: the Surrealist 'free functioning of thought', and the existential critique of rational discourse elaborated by Lev Shestov and Benjamin Fondane.
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6This paper explores the interaction between writing, theatrical performance and filmmaking practice in Marguerite Duras's 'text-play-film', India Song, with reference to the role of sound-image asynchrony in the emergence of a 'time-image' and its related intermedial effects from the intended theatrical mise-en-scene to the radio broadcast and the screen adaptation.
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20Léon Chestov - La Philosophie de la tragedie. Dostoïevski et Nietzsche (edited book)Le Bruit du Temps. 2012.Scholarly edition of Leon Chestov's book on Dostoevsky and Nietzsche including a preface, short bibliographical introduction, critical annotations, chronology and bibliography.
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23Editorial: Special issue on Lev Shestov and Georges BatailleLev Shestov Journal 12. 2012.Editorship of the special issue of the Lev Shestov Journal devoted to the relationship between the Russian existential philosopher and his life-long friend and French translator, Boris de Schloezer. This issue includes extracts from the previously unpublished correspondence between the two authors
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8This paper analysed Fondane's conception and practice of avant-garde photography and film in relation to Lev Shestov's existential thought and its postmodern reconceptualization in Deleuze's theory of 'nomadism' and his notion of the 'time-image'.
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6Lupta pentru libertatea de gandire (edited book)EIKON. 2010.The chapter analyses the relationship between Benjamin Fondane and Lev Shestov as reflected in the former's volume of memoirs - Rencontres avec Léon Chestov, published after the author's untimely death at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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5Jean-Luc Marion: a reflectionIn Ramona Fotiade & David Jasper (eds.), Giveness and Revelation, Oxford University Press. 2016.An introduction to Jean-Luc Marion's Gifford Lectures, which he gave at the University of Glasgow in 2014.
Areas of Specialization
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Continental Philosophy |
Existentialism |
Phenomenology |
Gilles Deleuze |
Jacques Derrida |
Felix Guattari |
Michel Foucault |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |