www.egs.edu/ Christopher Fynsk, contemporary philosopher talks about Maurice Blanchot, his life as an author, how he introduces the question of literature, his political background, the impact of surrealism, Thomas The Obscure, The Book To Come, The Literary Space, post-war period of Blanchot, in relation to the statements of Lacan, Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Levinas and the post-structuralist thinking in Blanchot's theoretical and literary works.
Christopher Fynsk has been the Director of the Centre for Modern Thought as well as the head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. He also currently holds the Maurice Blanchot Chair for Continental Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Previously he taught at SUNY Binghamton where he was co-director and founder of the Philosophy, Literature and Theory of Criticism department.
Internationally recognized as a Heidegger scholar and literary theorist, Christopher Fynsk has worked extensively with Philipe Lacou-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy as well as others over the course of his career. In his book Heidegger; Thought and Historicity (1986), Fynsk examined Heidegger's notions of human finitude and difference, especially through an examination of the role of 'mitsein' in Being and Time. In later works, Fynsk has taken up the idea of language (that there is language) and its relation to being. His book Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (2000) continues this engagement with language.
Amongst Chris Fynsks published works are Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy (1989), Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (1986), Politics Language and Relation: that there is language (1996), Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (2000), The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (2004).
Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department. Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2012 Christopher Fynsk.
Christopher Fynsk has been the Director of the Centre for Modern Thought as well as the head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. He also currently holds the Maurice Blanchot Chair for Continental Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Previously he taught at SUNY Binghamton where he was co-director and founder of the Philosophy, Literature and Theory of Criticism department.
Internationally recognized as a Heidegger scholar and literary theorist, Christopher Fynsk has worked extensively with Philipe Lacou-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy as well as others over the course of his career. In his book Heidegger; Thought and Historicity (1986), Fynsk examined Heidegger's notions of human finitude and difference, especially through an examination of the role of 'mitsein' in Being and Time. In later works, Fynsk has taken up the idea of language (that there is language) and its relation to being. His book Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (2000) continues this engagement with language.
Amongst Chris Fynsks published works are Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy (1989), Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (1986), Politics Language and Relation: that there is language (1996), Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (2000), The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (2004).
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