Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Second term
Friday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 119 Marais 2300

French

The seminar is a research-seminar and intends to introduce the students to research-creation. As a preliminary gesture, we will question the ‘inherited institution' (Castoriadis) of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. We are used to think of aesthetics as devoted to the study of works of arts as well as of ‘Beauty'. But the etymology of its name (aesthesis) points to everything we can experiment with our sense organs.
Moreover, we will see that the philosophical institution of ‘aesthetics' as a specific topic, which is due to Aristotle's Poetics, often aims at repeling the political dimension of artistic performances and works of art. We will try to read this kind of philosophical texts with a critical mind (we can mention, for instance, Heidegger's ‘Origin of the work of art'). But we will also focus on hybrid texts, creating a kind of ‘poetical philosophy' or ‘philosophical poetry' in order to be empowered with a political performativity or even to build a new culture (Nietzsche with his Zarathoustra, for instance).
We will work on philosophical works (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, Arendt, Rancière, Castoriadis) as well as on ‘philosophers-poets' (Nietzsche, Glissant), playwrights which have also theorized their own art (Brecht, Artaud) and performances the professor has been involved in (with Theatercombinat in Vienna, Theater companies such as Sturmfrei and Kaleidos in Switzerland, Avignon Festival, etc.)

For the Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General :

For the Bachelor in Philosophy :

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The content of the seminar changes every year.
As students have worked on Aristotle's Poetics in 2017-2018, this year will be devoted to the study of a ‘poetic philosophy' which has a very specific kind of political performativity : Edouard Glissant's Traité du Tout-Monde (Poétique. IV, Paris, Gallimard, 1997). Some other texts will be read as well: Tout-Monde (Paris, Gallimard, 1993), Éloge de la Créolité of Jean Bernabé, Raphaël Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau (Paris, 1989), and Frères Migrants from Patrick Chamoiseau (Seuil, 2017).

Lectures

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