Miguel Beistegui
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In the last three years, I have been engaged in the following enterprises: 1. The extension into the domain of aesthetics of the systematic ontology developed in Truth and Genesis. This has led me to publish a book on Proust, in which explore the connection between difference, as an ontological concept, and metaphor, as an aesthetic notion. It's also in light of this problematic that I am writing on the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida. 2. The extension of my work on Deleuze, begun in Truth and Genesis, beyond Difference and Repetition. Whilst still a central concept, difference is now thought within the broader and more fundamental context of philosophy's commitment to immanence. This work led me to publish a book in Italian on Deleuze as a philosopher of immanence. I am currently revising that book for an expanded English version. 3. Teaching and writing on various aspects of 20th Century French Philosophy, especially the connection between perception and memory, or space and time. In that context, I have been engaging with Bergson, Proust, and Merleau-Ponty.
In the immediate future, I shall devote my time to the following three projects: 1. Teaching and writing on the problem of desire in connection with 20th Century French Thought, from Kojeve to Lacan, Levinas, and Deleuze and Guattari, especially as a way into the question of ethics and politics, and a ground for the battle between immanence and transcendence. 2. As the Founding Editor of a new series in Contemporary French Philosophy with Palgrave Macmillan, I'll be promoting and following the translation and editing of a number of volumes. 3. Running the newly created 'European Network in Contemporary French Philosophy' with the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and the Universities of Milan and Pisa. Three workshops will take place in 2009/2010: 'Deleuze and Simondon' (Palazzo Papafavana, Warwick in Venice, 18-19 September 2009), 'Cavaillès and Canguilhem' (école normale supérieure, Paris, 22-23 January 2010) and 'Foucault' (Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, 15-17 April 2010). For more information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/encfp/
I welcome Ph.D. projects by students interested in the philosophy of nature, ontology, philosophy and literature, perception and memory, space and time, and the anthropology, ethics and politics of desire, especially in connection with Spinoza, 20th century French Philosophy, phenomenology, and aspects of German idealism.
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Email:mailto:M.J.F.Beistegui@warwick.ac.uk 2009/2010 MA Teaching
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2009/2010 Undergraduate Teaching Heidegger's Being and Time (1927): |
