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9Le contemporain, l'intempestif et l'imminent. Petits arrangements avec une époquePresses du réel. 2026.L'époque contemporaine a substitué au futur – horizon ultime de la modernité – la promesse d'une expérience à jamais conjuguée au présent. Mais à force de vouloir être de son temps et de rester en phase avec l'actualité, l'actuel a pris le pas sur le possible. Le régime présentiste du contemporain nous a paradoxalement enfermés dans un hors-temps qui nous prive de recul et nous rend aveugles à ce qui peut advenir. Ce livre explore les contre-temps de notre époque : ses désynchronisations et ses …Read more
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Le premier livre de Merleau-Ponty, un romanChiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought 21 253-268. 2019.
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4Gilbert Simondon, Imagination et invention (1965-1966), Édition établie par Nathalie Simondon et présentation de Jean-Yves Chateau, Chatou, Éd. De la Transparence, 2008, 206 P (review)Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 134 (2): 237-280. 2009.
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18Instituierende PraxisDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 73 (5): 657-673. 2025.Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy has lately garnered renewed attention. While the kind of political tradition this philosophy belongs to remains a highly contested topic, the paper would like to make a twofold claim. Firstly, that Merleau-Ponty shares elementary assumptions with the tradition known as “postfoundationalism”. Secondly, that historically speaking, his thinking has influenced some of the figures associated with postfoundationalism today and should thus be acknowledged as an inte…Read more
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12ContributorsIn Emmanuel Alloa, Rajiv Kaushik & Frank Chouraqui (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy, State University of New York Press. pp. 303-307. 2019.
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14IndexIn Emmanuel Alloa, Rajiv Kaushik & Frank Chouraqui (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy, State University of New York Press. pp. 309-312. 2019.
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52Nicht(s) sagen: Strategien der Sprachabwendung im 20. Jahrhundert (edited book)transcript Verlag. 2008.
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6EinleitungIn Emmanuel Alloa, Michael G. Festl, Federica Gregoratto & Thomas Telios (eds.), Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk und Wirken, Transcript Verlag. pp. 7-12. 2019.
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5»…ein Reden und ein Denken, das nicht wir haben«. Zur Figur der indirekten Rede bei Maurice Merleau-PontyIn Emmanuel Alloa & Alice Lagaay (eds.), Nicht(s) sagen: Strategien der Sprachabwendung im 20. Jahrhundert, Transcript Verlag. pp. 207-224. 2008.
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7EinleitungIn Emmanuel Alloa & Alice Lagaay (eds.), Nicht(s) sagen: Strategien der Sprachabwendung im 20. Jahrhundert, Transcript Verlag. pp. 7-22. 2008.
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31On ne saurait reprocher à une pensée dont le développement a été brutalement interrompu de ne pas être conclusive. Mais si cet inachèvement a inspiré de nombreux lecteurs pour imaginer des possibles prolongements, l’œuvre elle-même a souvent fait l’objet d’un oubli paradoxal. En suivant le fil rouge d’un concept opératoire traversant toute l’œuvre, on découvre la singulière cohérence philosophique qui l’anime. Observer Merleau-Ponty à l’œuvre, c’est redécouvrir tout le sens d’une pensée (du) sen…Read more
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Resistencia de lo sensible. Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-PontyIn Leonardo Verano Gamboa, Javier Roberto Suárez González & Pedro Pablo Serna Serna (eds.), Resistencia. Posibilidad del acontecimiento del sentido, Uni Norte. 2025.
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9Transparency: Thinking Through an Opaque ConceptIn Emmanuel Alloa & Dieter Thomä (eds.), Transparency, Society, Subjecticity. Critical Perspectives, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1-13. 2018.Introducing the topic, presenting transparency and its discontents, and offering an overview over the volume and its three sections “Transparency in the Making,” “Under the Crystal Dome,” and “From the Panopticon to the Selfie and Back.” To think through transparency means to think through an opaque concept.
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25Attraverso l'immagine. Una fenomenologia dei media visualiMeltemi. 2025.Cosa ci fanno vedere le immagini? Ma soprattutto, come ci fanno vedere? Perché oggi sono le immagini a darci accesso al mondo? In cosa consiste il loro potere? Queste sono solo alcune delle domande che Emmanuel Alloa si pone in Attraverso l’immagine, un saggio filosofico di ampio respiro che indaga le origini del nostro rapporto ambivalente con le immagini.
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1Wie es wäre wenn es denn wäre. Zur utopischen Kraft der ImaginationIn Serena Gregorio (ed.), Geist und Imagination. Zur Bedeutung der Vorstellungskraft für Denken und Handeln, Suhrkamp. pp. 259-281. 2024.
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64The Share of PerspectiveRoutledge. 2024.This book is a defence of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that we must rediscover: the point of view is not only what divides, it is also what is shared. The book makes a case why perspectivism alone can avoid us falling back into epistemological naivetés. It presents a series of case studies ranging from innovative interpretations of classical authors and key moments in the history of art—from ancient painting, tr…Read more
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Restitutionen. Wiedergaben des 'Ursprungs des Kunstwerks' in der französischen PhilosophieIn David Espinet & Tobias Keiling (eds.), Heideggers Ursprung des Kunstwerks: Ein kooperativer Kommentar, Vittorio Klostermann. pp. 261-276. 2011.
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25La Parole Oblique. Merleau-Ponty et les Enjeux d’une Éthique de L’indirectPhainomenon 19 (1): 157-174. 2009.Philosophical speech is required to reach the core of the things themselves, often at the risk of subsuming the individual thing under the law of a general concept and ruining its singularity. Is another approach available to philosophy at all? The question of the violence of the discourse has been raised by many thinkers in the 20th century. Just as Wittgenstein, Husserl demanded for a replacement of deduction by description which would let the things appear in their own light. Merleau-Ponty ha…Read more
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43Die Hintergründigkeit des AlltagsPhänomenologische Forschungen 2018 (1): 8-26. 2018.In contemporary philosophy, many attempts were made to rehabilitate the everyday. However, such a reappraisal of the everyday is ambivalent, as it tends to objectify what is profoundly elusive due to its diffuse, ambient character. The two prevailing strategies (the,celebration‘ of the everyday and the,critique‘ of the everyday) both miss the everyday because they treat it as a positive entity. Whether by celebrating or by understanding it – in both cases they kill it. This article argues that p…Read more
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19What is Philosophy? What is Politics? What is Critique? - An Interjection on Definitory PracticesPhilosophy, Politics, Critique 1 (1): 7-13. 2024.10.3366/ppc.2024.0004.
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37This Obscure Thing Called Transparency. Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor (edited book)University Press Leuven. 2022.The paradoxical logic of transparency and mediation Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media – it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxic…Read more
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41Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary PhilosophyIn Emmanuel Alloa, Rajiv Kaushik & Frank Chouraqui (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-14. 2019.
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119Performing an Appearance. On the Performativity of ImagesParadigmi. Rivista di Critica Filosofica 41 (3). 2023.It is all the rage today to speak about the “power" of images. Yet while it seems hardly disputable that images generate fascination or repulsion and that they provoke laughter, tears or delight, it is by no means clear what it entails to grant them an agency of their own. The article sets out to chart the current literature on the topic, and to indicate why it is not the same to ask what it means for images to do things to us and what it means do things with images. While the former question of…Read more
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Décider de l'indécidable. Derrida et la justice algorithmiqueIn Sara Guindani & Alexis Nouselovici (eds.), Derrida. La dissémination à l’œuvre, Msh Editions. 2021.
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69The Do It Yourself-Paradigm: An Inquiry into the Historical Roots of the Neglect of TestimonyEarly Science and Medicine 22 (4). 2017.In contemporary social epistemology, the claim has been made that there is a traditional “neglect of testimonial knowledge,” and that in the history of epistemology, first-hand self-knowledge was invariably prioritised over secondary knowledge. While this paper acknowledges some truth in these statements, it challenges the given explanations: the mentioned neglect of testimonial knowledge is based not so much on a primacy of self-knowledge, but that of self-agency. This article retraces some cru…Read more
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Korrelation: Phänomenologie als KorrelationsforschungIn Emmanuel Alloa, Thiemo Breyer & Emanuele Caminada (eds.), Handbuch Phänomenologie, Mohr-siebeck. pp. 148-153. 2023.Die Phänomenologie stellt eine der Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie dar und findet in zahlreichen Wissenschaften sowie in Praxis und Therapeutik starke Resonanz. Nach 120 Jahren Wirkungsgeschichte füllt die Bibliothek phänomenologischer Werke zahllose Bücherregale und selbst für Expert:innen ist die Forschungsliteratur mittlerweile unüberschaubar geworden. An allgemeinen Einführungen sowie spezialisierter Fachliteratur mangelt es dabei keineswegs, wohl aber an einem Handbuch, in dem sow…Read more
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Gegenwärtigung und Vergegenwärtigungen. Wahrnehmung, Erinnerung, FantasieIn Emmanuel Alloa, Thiemo Breyer & Emanuele Caminada (eds.), Handbuch Phänomenologie, Mohr-siebeck. pp. 185-191. 2023.Die Phänomenologie stellt eine der Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie dar und findet in zahlreichen Wissenschaften sowie in Praxis und Therapeutik starke Resonanz. Nach 120 Jahren Wirkungsgeschichte füllt die Bibliothek phänomenologischer Werke zahllose Bücherregale und selbst für Expert:innen ist die Forschungsliteratur mittlerweile unüberschaubar geworden. An allgemeinen Einführungen sowie spezialisierter Fachliteratur mangelt es dabei keineswegs, wohl aber an einem Handbuch, in dem sow…Read more
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
PhD, 2009
Fribourg, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Areas of Specialization
| Aesthetics |
| Social and Political Philosophy |
| Philosophy of Visual Art |
| Epistemology |
| Embodiment and Situated Cognition |