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Thinking about Ethics:
Deleuze’s not-so-Secret Vital Link with Spinoza and Nietzsche
Alan D. Schrift
18h30 Tuesday
February 19 2008
Grand Salon
The American University of Paris
Concepts & Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy
Regards Croisés / Joint Seminar 2007-2008 Local | Vital | Legal
"Thinking about Ethics: Deleuze's not-so-Secret Vital Link with Spinoza and Nietzsche"
Alan D. Schrift
F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College
The third seminar in the 2007-2008 ‘Regards croisés’, Concepts and Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy series took place Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at The American University of Paris.
Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College, led the seminar with a talk entitled: "Thinking about Ethics: Deleuze's not-so-Secret Vital Link with Spinoza and Nietzsche."
Professor Schrift is the author of several major works and articles on Friedrich Nietzsche, including Nietzsche’s French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism, an examination of post-1960 French appropriations of Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous and Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, a comparative analysis of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida’s interpretations of Nietzsche, examining these interpretations as exemplary of their respective approaches to the history of philosophy. His most recent book is Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers. He is currently at work on two significant editorial projects: General Editor, with Keith Ansell Pearson, of the Stanford University Press translations of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, and editor of an eight-volume History of Continental Philosophy.
The 'Regards croisés' seminar series in 'Concepts and Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy' presents different French and Anglo-saxon perspectives on twentieth and twenty-first century French philosophy around the concepts of 'Local, Vital, Legal'. Papers are presented by specialists in contemporary French philosophy as well as by those who are engaged in examining the impact of French philosophy within other domains and disciplines: literature, law, politics, art, and the sciences. The joint seminar in 'Concepts and Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy' is organized by the Critical Theory Collective at The American University of Paris in partnership with the Centre International d'Étude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine (CIEPFC) at the École normale supérieure and Columbia University Paris - Reid Hall.
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