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7691Seeing-in, seeing-as, seeing-with: Looking through picturesIn Elisabeth Nemeth, Richard Heinrich, Wolfram Pichler & Wagner David (eds.), Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts. Volume I. Proceedings of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium [extended version 2021], Ontos: 179-190. pp. 179-190. 2011.In the constitution of contemporary image theory, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy has undoubtedly become a major conceptual reference. Rather than trying to establish what Wittgenstein’s own image theory could possibly look like, this paper would like to critically assess some of the advantages as well as some of the quandaries that arise when using Wittgenstein’s concept of ‘seeing-as’ for addressing the plural realities of images. While putting into evidence the tensions that come into play w…Read more
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68Iconic Turn: A Plea for Three Turns of the ScrewCulture, Theory, and Critique 56 (3). 2015.In the early 1990s, W.J.T. Mitchell and Gottfried Boehm independently proclaimed that the humanities were witnessing a ‘pictorial’ or ‘iconic turn’. Twenty years later, we may wonder whether this announcement was describing an event that had already taken place or whether it was rather calling forth for it to happen. The contemporary world is, more than ever, determined by visual artefacts. Still, our conceptual arsenal, forged during centuries of logocentrism, still falls behind the complexity …Read more
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69La chair comme diacritique incarnéChiasmi International 11 249-262. 2009.In 20th century thinking, few concepts have provoked as many misunderstandings as Merleau-Ponty’s notion of ‘Flesh’. Such misunderstandings (of which the article sketches the outline of an archaeology) rest on the initial assumption that the Flesh has to be derived from the body. The article suggests that the dominant readings of the Flesh can be organized along what could respectively be called the scenario of propriety and the scenario of expansion, beyond which a third way comes into view whi…Read more
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1Kreativität der Diaspora. Über neuere Phänomenologie in FrankreichPhilosophische Rundschau 60 (1): 52. 2013.
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172Visual Studies in Byzantium. A pictorial turn avant la lettreJournal of Visual Culture 12 (1): 3-29. 2013.As Hegel once said, in Byzantium, between homoousis and homoiousis, the difference of one letter could decide the life and death of thousands. As this article seeks to argue, Byzantine thinking was not only attentive to conceptual differences, but also to iconic ones. The iconoclastic controversy (726-842 AD) arose from two different interpretations of the nature of images: whereas iconoclastic philosophy is based on the assumption of a fundamental 'iconic identity', iconophile philosophy defend…Read more
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86Writing, Embodiment, Deferral: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on The Origin of GeometryPhilosophy Today 58 (2): 219-239. 2014.A simplistic image of twentieth century French philosophy sees Merleau-Ponty’s death in 1961 as the line that divides two irreconcilable moments in its history: existentialism and phenomenology, on the one hand, and structuralism on the other. The structuralist generation claimed to recapture the dimension of objectivity and impersonality, which the previous generation was supposedly incapable of. As a matter of fact, in 1962, Derrida’s edition of Husserl’s The Origin of Geometry was taken to be…Read more
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46Leib und Sprache. Zur Reflexivität verkörperter Ausdrucksformen (edited book)Velbrück. 2013.Die elf Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln dem Problem der Verkörperung von Sinn nach: phänomenologische, psychoanalytische und sprachwissenschaftliche Ansätze bilden dabei den Schwerpunkt; sie werden aber durch Studien aus der Literaturtheorie, der politischen Theorie und der Filmwissenschaft ergänzt. Was heißt es – das ist die zentrale Frage –, den Körper als leibliches Medium aufzufassen, welches Sinn nicht nur verkörpert, sondern überhaupt erst entstehen lässt? Gibt …Read more
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2Der Leib, ein 'merkwürdig unvollkommen konstituiertes Ding'In Emmanuel Alloa, Thomas Bedorf, Tobias Nikolaus Klass & Christian Grüny (eds.), Leiblichkeit. Geschichte und Aktualität eines Begriffs, Mohr-siebeck / Utb. 2012.
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52Metaxu. Figures de la médialité chez AristoteRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 62 (2): 247. 2009.Depuis la renaissance des études aristotéliciennes avec Werner Jaeger, on a souvent observé la fréquence lexicographique des termes dénotant la médiété et la médiation dans le corpus aristotélicien. Cette récurrence a cependant généralement été traitée comme un effet homonymique, rien ne permettant de relier a priori la médiété éthique, le terme intermédiaire en logique ou encore le milieu perceptif. Et pourtant, le fait qu'Aristote s'interroge lui-même sur cette « plurivocité » du médium peut ê…Read more
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47Flected Bodies: on the relationship between body and languageEidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 21 200-220. 2014.Although in the modern age there were plenty of attempts to overcome the mind-body dualism, its philosophical theories of language reintroduced it in a subtle but not less effective way.In this article several theorems to think on the materiality of the sign are discussed, and, from Kierkegaard to the post-Saussurean structuralism, the prominent role of thinking the materialization as something necessary but arbitrary in its modality is shown. The body of language under this understanding is not…Read more
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8Buchkritik: Das unsichtbare Bild (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (5): 816-821. 2012.Christoph Asmuth: Bilder über Bilder – Bilder ohne Bilder. Eine neue Theorie der Bildlichkeit. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, 194 S.
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7Nicht(s) Sagen: Strategien der Sprachabwendung Im 20. Jahrhundert (edited book)Transcript. 2008.Das 20. Jahrhundert war durch eine radikale Rückbesinnung auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Sprache gekennzeichnet. Der neuzeitliche Traum einer restlosen Benennung des Weltganzen wird fraglich, wenn ihr Medium – die propositionale Aussagelogik – unter Verdacht gerät. Der Band wirft die brisante Frage auf, ob der für das Jahrhundert prägende linguistic turn nicht so sehr in einer Hinwendung, als vielmehr in einer »Abwendung« vom Sagen besteht, die sich in der Entsagungsgeste von Melvilles B…Read more
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Suspension et gravité. L’imaginaire sartrien face au TintoretAlter. Revue de Phénoménologie 15 (15): 123-141. 2007.
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
PhD, 2009
Fribourg, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |