Between Crisis and War: Philosophising?
Year two
The problem of language, communication in modern times, Baudelaire’s “La cloche fêlée”: what do we call modernity? Filmed with the help of Les Films de l’an 2.
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#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Is it philosophical critique that provokes the crisis of the city, or is it because the city is in crisis that philosophizing is needed more than ever?
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#2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
How does a sonnet by Baudelaire, La Cloche fêlée, allow us to link the problem of language and communication to the thought of our historical present, modernity?
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#2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Why does philosophy, daughter of crisis, start from words of ordinary language, and what does modern poetry say about the historical moment named by the word "Occident"?
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#2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
What is missing from the Cartesian subject in order to think the modern subject, and why do both the abstract self and the exclusive community end in destruction?
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#2.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
How does the modern subject divide itself, and how does literature express the unconscious before Freud theorizes it?
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#2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
How does the reading of Phèdre, which joins the highest poetic beauty to the most profound content, lead from the psychological unconscious to class unconscious, and is there a universal criterion of beauty?
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#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
What path did the workshop "Between Crisis and War: Philosophizing?" follow, from the definition of philosophy to the passage to the philosophy of action?
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#2.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
How can philosophy, after having answered with the sciences the question "what can I know?", move on to the knowledge of man and his historical present?