Category: EN

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 1

Beyond the individual : the collective, the community, its practices and customs – the human cultures

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 2

Heidegger’s Being and Time opens with an intriguing vocable. The German philosopher asks a very particular question : what is the meaning of Being ? …

May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Introduction

Our trajectory through the idiosyncrasies and insights of the foreigner has brought us to unsuspected lands…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 1

The fact is so evident that we have managed to explore foreignness extensively without discussing it in depth : foreignness is a matter of space…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 2

We have already touched upon the avenir as a radical modification of Heidegger’s temporal project…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 3

As we saw, foreignness is greatly a matter of difference…

May 9, 2014
February 17, 2014

Ethnocentrism is the feared ghost of the anthropologist’s good conscience. The colonial agenda of early anthropology, in the 19th century, would soon be complemented by the conscientious methodological and ethical concerns of mid 20th century ethnologists, within which the structuralist lineage would quickly acquire a leading position…

January 27, 2014

“How does it matter to us?” seems to be the logical conclusion for a number of intellectual explorations. A conceptual construction or a scientific elaboration would then have their raison d’être in their capacity for implying a set of conclusions bringing a benefit … Addressing evolution theory, Elliott Sober brings this assumption to its most ambitious edge…