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Philosophy and the Trial of Terror: September 11, January 7 and 9, November 13

The Department of European Languages and Studies

presents

Professor Marc Crépon

“Philosophy and the Trial of Terror: September 11, January 7 and 9, November 13"

Free and open to the public

Marc Crépon is a member of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Husserl archives), chair of the Philosophy Department of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and director of the transdisciplinary Graduate School of Letters and Science of the ENS. He specializes in French and German philosophy (18th to 20th c.) and contemporary moral and political philosophy, with a focus on the subjects of language, community, and violence. His  publications include: Les géographies de l’esprit (1996); Le malin génie des langues (2000); Les Promesses du langage, Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Heidegger  (2001); Nietzsche, l’art de la politique de l’avenir (2003); Terreur et poésie (2004); Langues sans demeure (2005); Altérités de l’Europe (2006); La culture de la peur, identité, sécurité, démocratie (2008); La guerre des civilisations (2010); Le consentement meurtrier (2012); Élections, de la démophobie (2012); The Thought of Death and the Memory of War (2013) and La vocation de l’écriture, la littérature et la philosophie à l’épreuve de la violence  (2014).