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Nov 1, 2026, 6:01 PM

Mohamed Maouhoub, Derrida and the Crisis of Modernity XII

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A few years ago, in Marseille, two translators were asked to carry the same book into two sister languages. Moshe Ron was to render Jacques Derrida’s Le Monolinguisme de l’autre into Hebrew, and Mohamed Maouhoub into Arabic. The Mucem...

Oct 28, 2026, 10:13 PM

Ali Vahdati Daneshmand, Bernard Stiegler and the Crisis of Modernity XI

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The corridors of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tehran offer an unexpected encounter between intellectual worlds. Classical Persian thinkers share the shelves with French philosophers such as Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Nancy, Agamben or Bernard Stiegler. Their...

Oct 25, 2026, 1:01 PM

The Theological-Political Turn: A Critique (Polity, 2026)

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Dominique Janicaud, in his 1991 essay Le tournant théologique de la phénoménologie française (translated in Phenomenology and the Theological Turn; see also this edition and this scan) said that a generation of phenomenologists had let theology in through the...

Oct 24, 2026, 11:33 PM

Herman (Hersz) Strasfogel, Birkenau’s Lost Witness

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In 2018 the archivist Karen Taïeb restored a Sonderkommando letter to its author. With Géraldine Muhlmann, she published L’histoire de la lettre de Hersz-Herman Strasfogel, in 2026. The letter On 6 November 1944, Hersz Strasfogel, a Polish Jew deported from France...

Oct 22, 2026, 6:55 PM

Fathi El-Meskini, Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity X

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In 2012, the Tunisian philosopher Fathi El-Meskini, born in 1961, published Being and Time in Arabic. Iran, the subject of earlier installments, had translators, disciples and fierce critics of Heidegger long before. The Arab world took far longer, and...

Oct 21, 2026, 9:53 PM

Coralie Camilli Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #348.2

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Coralie Camilli, substitute philosophy professor at the University of Corsica, Associate Researcher at CNRS and French boxing champion, published L’art du combat (Puf) in 2020, Jours de grâce et de violence (Vérone éditions), Insulaires (Vérone éditions) in 2023. and...

Oct 21, 2026, 9:29 AM

Coralie Camilli Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #348.1

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Coralie Camilli, substitute philosophy professor at the University of Corsica, Associate Researcher at CNRS and French boxing champion, published L’art du combat (Puf) in 2020, Jours de grâce et de violence (Vérone éditions), Insulaires (Vérone éditions) in 2023. and...

Oct 20, 2026, 3:10 AM

Siavash Jamadi, Martin Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity IX

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Siavash Jamadi, translator of Being and Time into Persian wrote a thousand-page history of phenomenology. (Editor’s note: the translator discussed here is not Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, arrested during the January 2026 protests in Shahrekord and executed on 3 October 2026...

Oct 18, 2026, 9:52 AM

Morad Farhadpour, Giorgio Agamben and the Crisis of Modernity VIII

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The earlier instalments of this series traced a recognisable genealogy. Mehdi Pârsâ read Derrida. Daryoush Ashouri and Reza Davari Ardakani, each differently, took up the question that Ahmad Fardid bequeathed to Iranian thought: what is the West, and what...

Oct 12, 2026, 3:47 AM

Akbar Jabbari, Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity VII

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On Thursday, September 3, 2026 (12 Shahrivar 1405), Akbar Jabbari lectured at Shahr-e Falsafeh-ye Iran, “Iran’s City of Philosophy,” on “Heidegger and the Jewish Question.” The Persian-language site Sedanet, which archives his 2016 lectures on Plato and talks on...

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