蜜桃导航

The American University of Paris presents a听talk by Matthieu Renault听(Ma卯tre de conf茅rences at Universit茅 Paris 8) titled The Empire of European Philosophy: A Global Perspective on the History of Philosophy. The talk is followed by a听discussion with the members of the audience.听All听external guests听should RSVP to osurelaup.edu听to be on the list.

听

THE EMPIRE OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

In 1972, in听Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari showed not only that the state, as an 鈥渁pparatus of capture鈥�, comes to permeate all forms of social life, but also that it determines the very way one thinks about these forms. But it must be added that such a听鈥渟tatification鈥澨齩f thought, which is inseparable from its nationalization, also rules philosophy (political, but not only) up until today, and, even more so, history of philosophy, in a manner unaddressed in Deleuze鈥檚 own philosophical practice. We should remember that the emergence of history of philosophy as a discipline at the end of the eighteenth century was contemporary with the birth of the nation-state as the dominant form of polity.听

From that date, the inner geography of philosophy and of its history was shaped according to state-national borders and imaginaries, even as philosophy had long developed in historical contexts where nation-states did not exist, and continued to develop where it was coextensive with other modes of government and territorial rule. In this respect, it is obvious that empires lasted much longer 鈥� in various configurations, from ancient empires to modern colonial empires 鈥� than nation-states.

听

Matthieu Renault is also听the author of four books:

• Frantz Fanon.听(Paris, Editions Amsterdam, 2011);
• L'Am茅rique de John Locke. 听(Paris, Editions Amsterdam, 2014);
• C.L.R. James. 听(Paris, La D茅couverte, 2016).
• 听(Paris, Syllepse, 2017).