
Mercredi 14 décembre 2022
“If we make a problem of ‘life’, and then just occasionally have regard for death too, our view is too short-sighted.” Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, § 63
The question of death is as old as philosophy itself. Intertwined, the two have undergone endless transformations throughout the history of mankind over the millennia. Not until recently, however, have the major philosophical concepts, in terms of which we think of ourselves, been defined to take our mortality fully into account. The profound differences between these concepts have been brought to light at the same time. Who are we, the mortals, then? The beings who are, first of all, alive and who perpetually oppose themselves to the perpetually evolving menace of the interruption of their lives – or rather the beings who exist and who project themselves, in one way or another, upon the always indeterminate and yet certain possibility of their non-existence? – Or perhaps, the mortal subjects, fragile and passionate, ever redefining themselves and never complete? Do these notions exclude one another, or are they concurrent? If so, in which way and to which extent? And what is it to be a mortal as the 21st century slowly unfolds and the world which we inhabit becomes increasingly mortal too? Death, deemed inconceivable and unthinkable by various important thinkers, keeps provoking our thought.
Retrouvez les conférences du colloque sur Savoirs ENS:
Taylor Carman (Columbia University) : Heidegger on Death, Dying, and Being Dead
Ondra Kvapil (ENS, ED 540, PhilOfr) : Death That Matters: Sartre vs. Epicurus
Christina Howells (University of Oxford) : Mortality : qui perd gagne
Frédéric Worms (Directeur de L’ENS, PhilOfr) : The Opposition between Life and Death as the Ultimate Principle of Contemporary Philosophy

Jeudi 23 et vendredi 24 juin 2022
Ce colloque en hommage à Jean-Luc Nancy propose de réouvrir le chantier d’une interrogation sur la communauté à venir qui s’affirme aujourd’hui comme l’une des questions philosophiques majeures de notre temps.
Colloque organisé par Lucia Angelino et Marc Crépon (Archives Husserl – Pays Germaniques UMR 8547 CNRS/ENS) avec la collaboration du CIEPFC – Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine/PhilOfr, UAR 3608 République des savoirs
Retrouvez les conférences du colloque sur Savoirs ENS:
Jean-Christophe Bailly (écrivain, poète et dramaturge)
« Vers une communauté centrifuge »
Lucia Angelino (Archives Husserl-Pays Germaniques UMR 8547 CNRS/ENS)
« Penser la communauté au prisme de la cruauté »
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (Södertörn University, Stockholm)
Yann Goupil (CIEPFC/PhilOfr, République des Savoirs, Erraphis-Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse)
« Que l’existence soit son propre sens »
Jérôme Lèbre (Lycée Hélène Boucher, Paris)
« Une coexistence avec les non-humains ? De l’écologie chez Jean-Luc Nancy »
Alice Thibaud (ENS-PSL École doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales)