Contemporary Philosophy

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.