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2This article provides the first account of Shestov's pervasive influence on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy (from Nietzsche et la philosophie to Milles plateaux), on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of nomad thought and "thought from outside", leading to an interpretation of Shestov and Kierkegaard's unexpected mentions in Gilles Deleuze's treatise on cinema, Cinema 1 - L'Image mouvement, and Cinema 2 - L'Image-temps.
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1This chapter presents Boris de Schloezer's role as a translator and interpreter of Lev Shestov in France, following the two intellectuals' exile to Paris due to the bolshevik revolution in Russia and in Ukraine. The argument draws on previously unpublished correspondence between the two authors kept in the archives of the Mediatheque de Monaco and the Sorbonne University Library. The chapter also analyses Boris de Schloezer's conception of literary translation and his own fictional writings whic…Read more
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3ChestovIn Mathilde Lequin & Albert Piette (eds.), Dictionnaire des Anthropologies. pp. 211-219. 2022.A critical presentation of Lev Shestov's thought in the context of French anthropology and philosophy of religion, with reference to Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Edmund Husserl, Jean Malaurie, as well as Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.
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3This is an introduction to Marina Ogden's study of the parable of the Angel of Death in Lev Shestov's philosophy which deals with the dialogue between existential thought and Freudian psychoanalysis in the interpretation of memory, trauma and rebirth.
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1EditorialLev Shestov Journal = Cahiers Léon Chestov 13 1-2. 2014.Presentation of the special issue devoted to Shestov and Kierkegaard.
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7A critical presentation of Lev Shestov's life and work from his formative years and early writings on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nietzsche to his European reception and interactions with French and German philosophers and writers, following his exile in 1921. The chapter provides an interpretation of his conception of temporal existence, death, faith and non-systematic philosophical reflection from the point of view of his legacy and influence on prominent postmodern writers and philosophers.
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2A critical and historical presentation of the Romanian avant-garde in Paris, with specific reference to Benjamin Fondane's literary work and existential philosophy, from the point of view of Gilles Deleuze's conception of nomadism and outside thought. This article is a contribution to a Festschrift published in honour of Mircea Martin, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest, and a prominent figure of post-World War II East European literary critic…Read more
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5The thought from outside: memory, truth and the repetition of faithIn I. Alphandary & L. Koczanowicz (eds.), Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus, Routledge. pp. 110-124. forthcoming.Through the comparative analysis of Chris Marker’s La Jetée, Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Alan Resnais’s You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love and 2046, this chapter considers the effectiveness of the postmodern notions of the “outside” as theorized first by Foucault, and then by Deleuze and Guattari for the possibility of outlining a different conception of temporality in its relationship to memory and testimonial. Deleuze’s notions of…Read more
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6Une pensée du contre-pouvoir: foi et subversion de la raisonIn L. Chestov (ed.), Le Pouvoir des clés. Nouvelle éd. corrigée, présentée et annotée par Ramona Fotiade, Le Bruit Du Temps. pp. 462-510. 2010.An original critical study of Lev Shestov's landmark existential essay on the history of the philosophy of religion, this book section constitutes the postface of the first volume in the new annotated critical edition of Shestov's complete works which was entrusted to the Lev Shestov Studies Society at Glasgow by the French publishers, Le Bruit du Temps. The study is followed by an updated chronology and a bibliography of the author's main works in Russian, French, German and English.
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11The profane illumination of cinema: knowledge, uncertainty and belief in the age of virtual realityJournal for the Study of Christian Culture 40 204-230. 2018.This 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 first part of the paper contrasts the phenomenological account of photographic images and the post-structuralist elaboration of an aesthetics of spectrality in the works of Roland Barthes, Deleuze and Derrida. Through the c…Read more
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20Lev Shestov: the meaning of life and the critique of scientific knowledgeIn R. A. Poole, G. Pattison & C. Emerson (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought., Oxford University Press. forthcoming.A critical presentation of Lev Shestov's life and work from his formative years and early writings on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nietzsche to his European reception and interactions with French and German philosophers and writers, following his exile in 1921. The chapter provides an interpretation of his conception of temporal existence, death, faith and non-systematic philosophical reflection from the point of view of his legacy and influence on prominent postmodern writers and philosophers.
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6This paper, delivered at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, at the University of Kyoto in July 2019, starts from Jacques Derrida's considerations on Plato's Phaedo, in Learning to Live Finally, in order to consider the possibility of an existential ethics in light of the Kierkegaardian notion of the self and of Judith Butler's theory of grievability, vulnerability and the relationship to the other.
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5Introductory study and critical note on the sources and the composition of Shestov's influential study of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, The Philosophy of Tragedy, which was originally written in the early 1900s and later translated into French and published in Paris in 1926. This publication forms part of the new annotated critical edition of Lev Shestov's works which was entrusted to the Lev Shestov Study Society in Glasgow by the French publishers, Le Bruit du Temps.
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561Foi et raison chez Léon Chestov et Blaise PascalLev Shestov Journal = Cahiers Léon Chestov 17 15-29. 2017.Conference paper delivered at the Maison de la recherche in October 2016, at an international colloquium scheduled to mark Lev Shestov's 150th anniversary. The article provides a comparative analysis of Shestov's and Pascal's conceptions of the relationship between faith and reason.
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5“Dans un miroir obscurement”: Léon Chestov et l’éblouissement de la raison’, ‘Note sur les textesIn L. Chestov (ed.), Athènes et Jérusalem, Le Bruit Du Temps. 2011.Introductory critical study and contextual presentation of the sources, composition and reception of Lev Shestov's best known philosophical work, Athens and Jerusalem, first published in French in 1938. This volume is part of the new annotated critical edition of the existential thinker's complete works which was entrusted to the Lev Shestov Studies Society by the Paris publishers, Le Bruit du Temps.
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7Avant-propos’, ‘Avertissement’, ‘Note sur les textesIn L. Chestov (ed.), Le Pouvoir des clés. Nouvelle éd. corrigée, présentée et annotée par Ramona Fotiade, Le Bruit Du Temps. pp. 9-25. 2010.Critical introduction, acknowledgments and contextual presentation and interpretation of Lev Shestov's influential theological study, Potestas Clavium, as part of the new scholarly edition project entrusted to the Lev Shestov Society by the French publishers, Le Bruit du Temps.
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3IntroductionIn Ramona Fotiade, D. Jasper & O. Salazar-Ferrer (eds.), Embodiment : Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying, Ashgate. pp. 1-6. 2014.No abstract available.
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11Embodiment : Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying (edited book)Ashgate. 2014.This volume examines a number of landmark conceptual shifts that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity, mortality, resurrection and eternal life. Drawing together some of the best international scholars in the field, the volume provides for the first time a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion today (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, …Read more
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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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22Editorial: 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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11EditorialLev 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.
Areas of Specialization
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Continental Philosophy |
Existentialism |
Phenomenology |
Gilles Deleuze |
Jacques Derrida |
Felix Guattari |
Michel Foucault |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |