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The Community According to Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy: from The Politic to Art
Pourhosseini, Behrang ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (referee)
Given the difficulty of relying on the classical notions of political thought to refer to what is in common between human beings, we have seen from the 80s the emergence of a debate around the concept of « community » in the field of political philosophy. Out of all the philosophers who have talked about the question of community, three authors, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy, have tried to analyze, in their own manner, the question of « the common » not only in the field of politics but also in the ontological field, as well as the aesthetic or literary field. For these authors, if the question of the community is primarily that of the relation, it's because « being » itself is defined as a relation or as a community. « Being » is always « being-with » or « being-together ». The community is based on the simple fact that one lives with others, and on the inclination of one to the other. What makes the common, which puts the beings in connection, is the fact that being tends to put itself out of itself, and that's what Bataille means by the notion of « ecstasy ». For our authors, love and literature are two decisive moments in the communal experience. Writing is the inherent element of community (communication). It is through writing that the exposure of individuals to the...
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The Absolute Immanence in Deleuze
Park, Daeseung ; Montebello, Pierre (advisor) ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (referee)
The absolute immanence in Deleuze Daeseung Park Abstract The plane of immanence is not unique. Deleuze and Guattari suppose a multiplicity of planes. Each great philosopher draws new planes on his own way, and these planes constitute the "time of philosophy". We can, therefore, "present the entire history of philosophy from the viewpoint of the institution of a plane of immanence" or present the time of philosophy from the viewpoint of the superposition and of the coexistence of planes. However, values of these institutions of planes are not equivalent. Since the plane of immanence cannot take off illusions surrounding the plane, and only a few philosophers are free from the illusions. We could, for this reason, say that a plane is "better" than the others. First of all, it is a question of the "illusion of transcendence" that makes the immanence "to" something. Plato, Christian philosophers and philosophers of the cogito, they correspond with the three ages of the illusion of transcendence. On the other hand, there are some philosophers of the immanence who have nothing to do with the illusion and know the imanence itself, namely, the "best" plane of immanence or the absolute immanence. This thesis' objective is to deal with problems about the absolute immanence according to a question which moves the...
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Capacity of Rancière's Political Subject, a Critical Review
Pao, Tsz-Ching ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (advisor) ; Klass, Tobias Nikolaus (referee)
This work seeks to examine the problematic notion of political competence in modern democratic system. In principle, everyone has the right to politics. However, in order to fulfil the role of political actor, one must meet certain specific criteria. Hence, concerning the subject of politics, it exists a fundamental paradox: it is universal and discriminative at the same time. The project of Rancière could be seen as an attempt to set out the abovementioned contradiction and to make it "productive". He considers the "sans-part" as the subject of politics, arguing that only the "sans-part" could reasonably reveal and thus correct the original wrong of democracy, a wrong done by setting up the social order at the cost of the exclusion of certain people. By means of a putting forwards a disagreement the sans-part show the inequality of the current division of common (partage du commun) and demand a fair redistribution. However, as the sans-part is usually trapped in an unfavourable position, it is not self-evident that the sans-part is able to confront the dominator and to make them admit the wrong they did. Rancière attempts to resolve the aforementioned tension by articulating another form of political competence: the aesthetic ability that everyone has. In this work, this proposal by Rancière will...
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Truth and alterity, their articulations in the Foucauldian analysis of the technics of the self
Charlebois, Philippe ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (advisor) ; Mouze, Létitia (referee) ; Buhlmann, Pierre (referee)
At the end of the manuscript of the last lesson of Courage of the truth, we can read this enigmatic declaration: "there is no establishment of the truth without an essential position of otherness; the truth is never the same; there can be truth only in the form of the other world and the other life" In this dissertation, we will analyse the relation between alterity and truth in the Foucauldian analysis of technics of the self. In order to do so, we will start with an analysis of the Foucaldian methodology used in his last years, especially what he means by alethurgic analysis. Then, we explore the necessity of an other for the manifestation of truth of the subject, for example, the necessity of an other for the ascetic practice of the self. Finally, we explain in which way the truth, in order to appear as such to the self, need to adopt an excentric position which, in its incarnation, will result in the other life. Key words: Foucault, alterity, technics of the self, truth
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Archaeology of Life in Merleau-Ponty and Canguilhem. Convergences from Critical Epistemology to Indirect Ontology
Tanguy, Semyon Vaclav Samuel ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (referee)
: In this research, i am investigating the validity of a divide coined by Foucault, between two philosophers, Canguilhem and Merleau-Ponty, on the basis of their philosophical orientation. The first one belongs to the "philosophy of the concept", while the other represents the "philosophy of the subject", and those two traditions, says Foucault, are "radically heterogeneous". I believe that this divide doesn't take into account that both Merleau-Ponty and Canguilhem are intending to tackle such an opposition between concept and subject by going back, using an archeological methodology, to its root. They both find it in a faulty comprehension of what the body, and more generally what the concept of "life" is, in their contemporary episteme, as it is seen through the scope of quantity and measurability. Working their way down from epistemology to ontology, they'll undermine this very scope by showing how quality and value stem from life itself, without the need for any kind of reflexive subject to postulate them, and are core categories for its understanding. Their ontology, indirect as it is, as life can only express itself through its anthropological situation, shows that before the "concept" or before the "subject", exists the "living", the "being-in-the-world", from which they both originate....
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Capacity of Rancière's Political Subject, a Critical Review
Pao, Tsz-Ching ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (advisor) ; Klass, Tobias Nikolaus (referee)
This work seeks to examine the problematic notion of political competence in modern democratic system. In principle, everyone has the right to politics. However, in order to fulfil the role of political actor, one must meet certain specific criteria. Hence, concerning the subject of politics, it exists a fundamental paradox: it is universal and discriminative at the same time. The project of Rancière could be seen as an attempt to set out the abovementioned contradiction and to make it "productive". He considers the "sans-part" as the subject of politics, arguing that only the "sans-part" could reasonably reveal and thus correct the original wrong of democracy, a wrong done by setting up the social order at the cost of the exclusion of certain people. By means of a putting forwards a disagreement the sans-part show the inequality of the current division of common (partage du commun) and demand a fair redistribution. However, as the sans-part is usually trapped in an unfavourable position, it is not self-evident that the sans-part is able to confront the dominator and to make them admit the wrong they did. Rancière attempts to resolve the aforementioned tension by articulating another form of political competence: the aesthetic ability that everyone has. In this work, this proposal by Rancière will...
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Searching for the little girl : sexual difference in the thought of Deleuze
Karakaş, Öznur ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (advisor) ; Bentouhami, Hourya (referee)
Below master thesis is a research on the position of sexual difference in Deleuze and Deleuze & Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari whose philosophy offer us important concepts as n-sexes, becoming woman, molecular femininity, femininity in-between (the two) etc. while at the same time situating feminist movement at the heart of their micro-politics, deserve to be studied with respect to the inquiries of gender studies the most fundamental of which is without doubt sexual difference. "How Deleuze and Guattari ponder over sexual difference" will then be the problematic of our research. Key words: Deleuze, Deleuze & Guattari, sexual difference, becoming-woman, n-sexes, molecular femininity, femininity in-between, micro-politics, family, capitalism and patriarchy, feminism, gender studies
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The Practical Philosophy of Henri Bergson
Batista Rates, Bruno ; Francois, Arnaud (advisor) ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (referee)
The aim of this dissertation is to study the dimension of Bergson's philosophy that is concerned with the concept of life. More specifically, we intend to research the practical subject is related to epistemology and theory of nature, why talk about « practical philosophy », knowing that usually, in the philosophical tradition, this expression designates the field responsible for moral/ethical/political/axiological questions not about the nature or the living, but about the man? This intentional choice reveals in itself exactly the idea that we want to show: the practical problems, in all its magnitude, has to be seen from the perspective of life and of living beings. Key-words: Bergson, life, practical philosophy, vitalism.
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The Community According to Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy: from The Politic to Art
Pourhosseini, Behrang ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (referee)
Given the difficulty of relying on the classical notions of political thought to refer to what is in common between human beings, we have seen from the 80s the emergence of a debate around the concept of « community » in the field of political philosophy. Out of all the philosophers who have talked about the question of community, three authors, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy, have tried to analyze, in their own manner, the question of « the common » not only in the field of politics but also in the ontological field, as well as the aesthetic or literary field. For these authors, if the question of the community is primarily that of the relation, it's because « being » itself is defined as a relation or as a community. « Being » is always « being-with » or « being-together ». The community is based on the simple fact that one lives with others, and on the inclination of one to the other. What makes the common, which puts the beings in connection, is the fact that being tends to put itself out of itself, and that's what Bataille means by the notion of « ecstasy ». For our authors, love and literature are two decisive moments in the communal experience. Writing is the inherent element of community (communication). It is through writing that the exposure of individuals to the...
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The Absolute Immanence in Deleuze
Park, Daeseung ; Montebello, Pierre (advisor) ; Sibertin-Blanc, Guillaume (referee)
The absolute immanence in Deleuze Daeseung Park Abstract The plane of immanence is not unique. Deleuze and Guattari suppose a multiplicity of planes. Each great philosopher draws new planes on his own way, and these planes constitute the "time of philosophy". We can, therefore, "present the entire history of philosophy from the viewpoint of the institution of a plane of immanence" or present the time of philosophy from the viewpoint of the superposition and of the coexistence of planes. However, values of these institutions of planes are not equivalent. Since the plane of immanence cannot take off illusions surrounding the plane, and only a few philosophers are free from the illusions. We could, for this reason, say that a plane is "better" than the others. First of all, it is a question of the "illusion of transcendence" that makes the immanence "to" something. Plato, Christian philosophers and philosophers of the cogito, they correspond with the three ages of the illusion of transcendence. On the other hand, there are some philosophers of the immanence who have nothing to do with the illusion and know the imanence itself, namely, the "best" plane of immanence or the absolute immanence. This thesis' objective is to deal with problems about the absolute immanence according to a question which moves the...
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