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Sep 15, 2026, 6:28 AM

Daryoush Ashouri, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Crisis of Modernity IV

De gauche à droite : Ali-Ashraf Sadeghi, Saeed Hamidian et Darioush Ashouri, séminaire sur l'écriture du persan, Centre des publications universitaires, 1982-1983 (1361 AP). (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Daryoush Ashouri (Persian: داریوش آشوری), born in Tehran on August 2, 1938, is one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the last half-century — and one of the least easily categorized. Trained at the University of Tehran's Faculty...

Sep 12, 2026, 11:14 AM

Ahmad Fardid, Martin Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity III

Ahmad Fardid was born in Yazd, central Iran, in 1910. He taught philosophy for decades at the University of Tehran without ever publishing a systematic book, and became, through his encounter with the French Islamologist Henry Corbin, the first...

Sep 10, 2026, 6:25 AM

Reza Davari Ardakani, Martin Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity II

Reza Davari Ardakani (copyright authorized)

Reza Davari Ardakani was born in Ardakan, in central Iran, in 1933. He belongs to a generation of Iranian philosophers specialists of Ahmad Fardid and Martin Heidegger. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran, and president...

Sep 8, 2026, 5:59 PM

Bijan Abdolkarimi, Martin Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity

Bijan Abdolkarimi (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Bijan Abdolkarimi was born in Tehran in 1963. He studied philosophy at the University of Tehran, where he completed his undergraduate and master's degrees, before pursuing a doctorate in Western philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University in India. His doctoral...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:38 PM

Esther Teillard Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #346

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Esther Teillard is a French writer and literary journalist from Marseille who studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy and contributed to Artpress and France Culture. She published in 2025, Carnes (Pauvert editions, Prix Sade du premier...

Sep 4, 2026, 6:32 PM

US Senate Presses UBS for More Details on Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts

UBS Building, New York City (Wikipedia CY BB 4.0)

UBS is facing renewed pressure from the United States Senate over Credit Suisse’s historical handling of accounts linked to Nazi Germany (Bloomberg), after the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded answers to dozens of additional questions and accused the Swiss lender...

Sep 2, 2026, 5:08 AM

Raphael Zagury-Orly Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #345.2

Raphael Zagury-Orly (@copyright authorized by Yana Rotner)

Raphael Zagury-Orly is a philosopher. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He has taught at numerous universities and art schools across Europe and Israel. In 2019, he was appointed Programme Director...

Sep 1, 2026, 8:27 AM

Raphael Zagury-Orly Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #345.1

Raphael Zagury-Orly (@copyright authorized by Yana Rotner)

Raphael Zagury-Orly is a philosopher. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He has taught at numerous universities and art schools across Europe and Israel. In 2019, he was appointed Programme Director...

Aug 30, 2026, 3:19 PM

Marco Koskas Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #344

Marco Koskas (copyright Fabrice Calvo)

Marco Koskas (b. 1951, Tunisia) is a French-Israeli novelist first discovered by Erik Orsenna, who signed him at Grasset after reading his early manuscript pages. Celebrated from his 1979 debut Balace Bounel onward and a Villa Médicis resident (1980–1982),...

Aug 27, 2026, 1:32 PM

Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry during WWII

Focke Wulff (wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Daniel Uziel worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and for the Israeli Air Force and the German Foreign Office. He spent a year as a research fellow with the U.S. National Air and Space Museum. He published Arming...

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Alexandre Gilbert is the director the Chappe gallery since 2005. He lives and works in Paris.