Giorgio Agamben on Maurice Blanchot (English Subs)

source: Eidos84    2012年10月18日
Giorgio Agamben on Maurice Blanchot. From the documentary 'Maurice Blanchot' (1998).
Trans. Kris Pender and Philippe Salmon

Michael Hardt On Revolution And Democracy

source: Eidos84    2010年12月2日
'Michael Hardt On Revolution and Democracy'. For Hardt, 'revolution requires a transformation in human nature so that people are capable of democracy'. However, he opposes any dialectical notions of this transformation, and argues instead that the achievement of true democracy, and the concomitant transformation of human nature, must be enacted 'positively'; that is, where democracy is engaged in consciously, and from the outset, rather than arising from a dialectical synthesis of opposites (for instance, Lenin would claim that true democracy can only arise subsequent to the revolution and the installation of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'). For Hardt, revolution and the transformation of human nature will require 'instigating utopia every day'.

Walter Kaufmann: Kierkegaard and the Crisis in Religion

source: Eidos84     2011年1月7日
"Kierkegaard and the Crisis in Religion", the first part of Walter Kaufmann's famous 1960 lecture series on existentialism. Kaufmann begins by explaining that existentialists share as many differences as other schools of philosophy. First coined to refer to the theories of Jaspers and Heidegger, existentialism became primarily associated with the work of Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Nietzsche, all radical individualists who found previous philosophical systems lacking. Kaufmann explains their writings as an answer to the modern crises in religion, philosophy and morality.

Jacques Ranciere: The Importance of Critical Theory for Social Movements...

source: Eidos84    2011年2月1日
Jacques Ranciere on 'The Importance of Critical Theory for Social Movements Today' (October 23, 2009).

Paul Ricoeur: Death and Eternity (English Subtitles)

source: Eidos84    2012年1月8日
A short excerpt from a 1969 interview with Paul Ricoeur.
Translated by Kris Pender and Philippe Salmon.

Bernard Stiegler: Towards a European Way of Life

source: Eidos84     2010年12月26日
Bernard Stiegler: "Towards a European Way of Life". Lecture given at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, in 2008.
Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher and Director of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI). He is also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, Ecole de Philosophie d'Epineuil-le-Fleuriel. His best known work is "Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus".
Between 1978 and 1983 Stiegler was incarcerated for armed robbery, first at the Prison Saint-Michel in Toulouse, and then at the Centre de détention in Muret. It was during this period that he became interested in philosophy, studying it by correspondence with Gérard Granel at the Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail. His transformation in prison is recounted in his book, Passer à l'acte (2003).
Stiegler's work is influenced by, among others, Sigmund Freud, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Valéry, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida.
Key themes in his work are technology, time, individuation, consumerism, consumer capitalism, technological convergence, digitization, Americanization, and the future of politics and human society.

Bernard Stiegler on Heidegger and Death

source: Eidos84    2010年10月11日
French philosopher Bernard Stiegler talks about Heidegger and death in the documentary "Der Ister."

Merleau-Ponty on Mallarmé and Poetic Language

source: Eidos84    2012年5月23日
"Merleau-Ponty on Mallarmé and Poetic Language", another brief excerpt from Merleau-Ponty's radio lecture "Art and the Perceived World" (Causeries 1948).

Merleau-Ponty on Music

source: Eidos84    2012年5月14日
A brief excerpt from Merleau-Ponty's radio lecture "Art and the Perceived World" (Causeries 1948). Throughout the lectures Merleau-Ponty emphasises a return to pure perception. As regards art, Merleau-Ponty presents an aesthetic theory which contends that the meaning of the artwork is to be found solely in our actual perceptual experience of it, and thus does not consist of a 'representation' that would point away from the artwork itself. Music however, as an inherently non-representational art form, offers "too easy an example" of his aesthetic theory, and Merleau-Ponty only briefly discusses it.
(Background music added in a recent replay on French radio)

Merleau-Ponty - Man Seen from the Outside (English Subtitles)

source: Eidos84   2012年1月5日
"Man Seen from the Outside", from Merleau-Ponty's "Causeries" radio lectures. Translated by Kris Pender.

Merleau-Ponty - Animality (English Subtitles)

source: Eidos84    2011年8月31日
"Exploration of the Perceived World: Animality", from Merleau-Ponty's "Causeries" radio lectures.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender

Merleau-Ponty - Sensible Objects (English Subtitles)

source: Eidos84    2011年8月25日
"Exploration of the Perceived World: Sensible Objects", the third of Merleau-Ponty's 1948 radio lecture series.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender

Merleau-Ponty - Exploration of the Perceived World: Space (English Subti...

source: Eidos84    2011年8月14日
"Exploration of the Perceived World: Space", the second of Merleau-Ponty's 1948 "Causeries" radio lecture series.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender.

Merleau-Ponty - The World of Perception and the World of Science (Englis...

source: Eidos84    2011年8月11日
"The World of Perception and the World of Science", the first of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Causeries" radio lecture series, broadcast on the 9th of October 1948.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender.

Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of the Flesh

source: Eidos84   2011年1月17日
Daniela Vallega-Neu - "On Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of the Flesh". April, 12 2007.
*Cleaned up the audio as best I could. Turn down the volume to cut out background noise.

Phenomenology and the Divine: Understanding the French Theological Turn

source: Eidos84    2011年2月6日
Professor Drew Dalton on "Phenomenology and the Divine: Understanding the French Theological Turn".
The talk deals with 20th and 21st century developments in the phenomenology founded by Husserl and Heidegger that allow the discussion of the Divine within phenomenology. The Turn began with Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, but the heart of the turn includes: Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chretien, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and finally Jean-Luc Marion (you could also include Jean-Francois Courtine and Paul Ricoeur, but these weren't discussed in the lecture).

Cornel West: 'What is Philosophy?'

source: Eidos84    2010年12月2日
A very short clip on the esteemed Cornel West's views on the nature of philosophy. For West, philosophy can be seen as 'a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death; wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism; and wrestling with democracy in the face of structures of domination'...

Gilbert Simondon - 'The Technical Object as Such'

source: Eidos84     2012年11月15日
Gilbert Simondon on 'the Technical Object as Such', an excerpt from 'Entretien sur la mécanologie' (1970).
Complete video interview (in segments) available at http://atelier-simondon.ens.fr/entret.... Text published in Revue de Synthèse 130(1) (2009), pp. 103-132.
Trans. Kris Pender

Emmanuel Levinas by Michael Barnes

source: StJohnsNottingham    2016年7月7日
This is an extract from one of our timeline projects. Please visit our timeline website for more information and to access our online editions. http://www.stjohnstimeline.co.uk/

Emmanuel Levinas on Maurice Blanchot

source: Eidos84    2012年10月9日
Emmanuel Levinas on his early relationship with Maurice Blanchot. From Hugo Santiago's 'Maurice Blanchot' (1998).
Trans. Kris Pender and Philippe Salmon