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This course will be centered on contemporary philosophical texts, with brief incursions in the history of philosophy. Some of the texts will be thoroughly analyzed in order to get to the very material of philosophy. This year, the course will focus on the threefold issue of being as arrangement, characterization and set of effects. We will show how this description is an attempt at avoiding an essentialist outlook on philosophy, and try to outline a perspective on the world it seeks to build. We will dwell on Nietzsche’s critique of the philosophy of his time and on his attempt at developing a new characterization of being as a power rather than a truth. We will continue with the invention of American pragmatic philosophy through works by William James and John Dewey. We will conclude by charting a line of descent of arrangement theory articulated around the work of Deleuze and Guattari, who offered to characterize situations from the way they are assembled, from their components as evolving within ways of being together.
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The course aims to make students aware, through the practice of philosophical texts, of what the production of philosophical thought requires, as well as of some of the issues of philosophy today, mainly those of being and of multiplicity, but also of the production of the notion of individual (or subject). The course also aims to show how a philosophical question is treated, how the texts of philosophies produce concepts that are solid, that stand up to a given problem. The course is organized around the reading of philosophical texts from the contemporary era, making brief detours in the history of philosophy. We will work on some texts in depth, studying what is the very material of philosophy. Rather than presenting a history of philosophy advancing in a progressive way, we will present a history of philosophy which progresses by accidents, reversals and variations. We will show that even if we can think that the same question "evolves" over time, we should rather camp each time a question in relation to a problem, an era, a style.
  
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'''Compulsory course in Master cycle.'''

Version actuelle datée du 13 juillet 2023 à 13:13

Teacher: Nicolas Prignot

The course aims to make students aware, through the practice of philosophical texts, of what the production of philosophical thought requires, as well as of some of the issues of philosophy today, mainly those of being and of multiplicity, but also of the production of the notion of individual (or subject). The course also aims to show how a philosophical question is treated, how the texts of philosophies produce concepts that are solid, that stand up to a given problem. The course is organized around the reading of philosophical texts from the contemporary era, making brief detours in the history of philosophy. We will work on some texts in depth, studying what is the very material of philosophy. Rather than presenting a history of philosophy advancing in a progressive way, we will present a history of philosophy which progresses by accidents, reversals and variations. We will show that even if we can think that the same question "evolves" over time, we should rather camp each time a question in relation to a problem, an era, a style.

Compulsory course in Master cycle.

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