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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 This issue includes extracts from the previously unpublished correspondence between the two authors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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5Lupta 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.
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8EditorialLev Shestov Journal 13. 2013-14.Presentation of the special issue devoted to Shestov and Kierkegaard.
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4A documentary film co-scripted and produced by the Director of the Lev Shestov Studies Society and Passager Productions to mark the existential philosopher's 150th anniversary. Several interviews with specialists from France, Canada, Switzerland and the UK accompany the biographical and critical interpretation of the author's interaction with French and German intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as his influence on post-war European philosophers and writers. The film was launched d…Read more
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7From Athens to Jerusalem: Kant, Shestov and the possibility of faithIn C. Audard-Montefiore, N. Bunnin, P. Flather, M. Fraser & S. Lewis (eds.), Life and Philosophy: A Collection of Essays to Honour Alan Montefiore on His 85th Birthday, . pp. 94-100. 2011.A comparative analysis of Kant's and Shestov's conceptions of religion, freedom and faith dedicated to the memory of Alan Montefiore.
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6Behind the veil of aristocracy: Cioran’s strategy for dealing with the painful memories of his nationalist pastThe Times Literary Supplement 10 17-18. 1995.An examination of Cioran's philosophical writings and his early political involvment in nationalist movements in Romania.
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5Le Ravissement de la parole : espace scénique et image-temps dans India SongOuvroir Litt Et Arts. 2018.An analysis of the sound-image asynchrony in Marguerite Duras's India Song, leading to a re-assessment of the notion of 'cinematic writing' in light of Derrida's deconstructive theory of writing and Deleuze's notion of 'time-image'.
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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.
Areas of Specialization
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Continental Philosophy |
Existentialism |
Phenomenology |
Gilles Deleuze |
Jacques Derrida |
Felix Guattari |
Michel Foucault |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |