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Teacher : [[Natacha Pfeiffer]]

'''Thinking in contact. For a situated philosophy'''

This course examines contemporary philosophical approaches that decide to think in contact with a particular context, and reflect on the position from which they state their theory. Using Donna Haraway's feminist concept of "situated knowledge" as a theoretical foundation, this course aims to explore philosophies that are in touch with the issues, urgencies and questionings of their time, as well as philosophies that dare to think with this context, i.e., to think in contact with foreign and a priori non-conceptual matter. While this commitment to contextualized thinking may seem counter-intuitive in relation to the challenges of a classical philosophical approach, we shall see how thinking directly with matter can enrich philosophical questioning and take it beyond its usual frameworks. In this way, the various perspectives addressed are designed to give students the tools they need to decode the issues facing the contemporary world, and to question the very act of philosophizing.

Each session is built around a specific text, which will be analyzed collectively, followed by a period of discussion and debate. The course itself is designed as a space for contact, where students are encouraged to confront authors, concepts and their different points of view.

This course, centered on "situated philosophy", is resolutely transdisciplinary and open to concepts drawn from other disciplines. It will question the ways in which different philosophical ideas are constructed, and theorize the epistemological knots and risks involved in these philosophies of contact. Within this framework, the course aims to train students to question the position from which they create and relate to the world.

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+Teacher : [[Fleur Courtois]]
-'''Thinking in contact. For a situated philosophy'''
+'''Alternative Philosophical Narratives'''
-This course examines contemporary philosophical approaches that decide to think in contact with a particular context, and reflect on the position from which they state their theory. Using Donna Haraway's feminist concept of "situated knowledge" as a theoretical foundation, this course aims to explore philosophies that are in touch with the issues, urgencies and questionings of their time, as well as philosophies that dare to think with this context, i.e., to think in contact with foreign and a priori non-conceptual matter. While this commitment to contextualized thinking may seem counter-intuitive in relation to the challenges of a classical philosophical approach, we shall see how thinking directly with matter can enrich philosophical questioning and take it beyond its usual frameworks. In this way, the various perspectives addressed are designed to give students the tools they need to decode the issues facing the contemporary world, and to question the very act of philosophizing.
+In Marisol de la Cadena's book, The Earth Beings, one can sense how the Western concept of "History" has been a weapon of destruction by excluding and/or exterminating everything that cannot enter it. The story of a mountain helping an indigenous community in Cuzco defeat a white landowner is not an objective fact that history can count as a "historical moment." It is only a story, not history. This simple judgment roots exclusion and disqualification in a logic that removes all power to alter the other: "Let the other be transformed, converted to logocentrism and white human exceptionalism, or let their existence be diminished, even denied!" » In this sense, the Western-centric historical discipline is an armed narrative (colonizing and conquering) against which, in particular, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Studies are constantly fighting.
-Each session is built around a specific text, which will be analyzed collectively, followed by a period of discussion and debate. The course itself is designed as a space for contact, where students are encouraged to confront authors, concepts and their different points of view.
+But if we inherit the murderous side of these Western rationalizations, we also inherit alternative narratives lodged within what we call our White History. This is what Deborah Bird Rose teaches us, notably in her book The Dream of the Wild Dog: Love and Extinction. While highlighting the ecocides and genocides that have resulted from the Platonic hyper-separatism between nature and culture at the basis of Western-centric logic, Rose also returns to what tells, or could tell, fruitful interconnections, where the rupture already seems irremediable. The imperialist whiteness that innervates Western culture must not make us forget the colorful specter that also inhabits it.
-This course, centered on "situated philosophy", is resolutely transdisciplinary and open to concepts drawn from other disciplines. It will question the ways in which different philosophical ideas are constructed, and theorize the epistemological knots and risks involved in these philosophies of contact. Within this framework, the course aims to train students to question the position from which they create and relate to the world.
+It is from these lessons in our heavy legacies that this course proposes to wander through a series of small alternative narratives that cover the heritage of Western philosophy. To do this, it will be a question of interweaving stories that go beyond the usual historical and philosophical framework. How can we situate ourselves in this perpetual philosophical mix and coexist with both our voracious demons and our angels who are beating their wings?

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Sammy le 29 septembre 2025 à 11:08

Sammy : Page créée avec « Teacher : Natacha Pfeiffer '''Thinking in contact. For a situated philosophy''' This course examines contemporary philosophical approaches that decide to think in co... »