Towards Times to Come: A Conversation with Catherine Chalier
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A conversation with contemporary leading philosopher Catherine Chalier about the significance of the Future and the importance of Hope today, vis-a-vis the consequences of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the environmental crisis.
Catherine Chalier, professor emerita of philosophy (Nanterre-ParisOuest University). Veryearly in her career, her studies of Levinas’s philosophy and her meeting withhim were decisive. She has published several books on his philosophy jointlywith other books. Last books: Découvrirla gratitude au risque de l’asymétrie (Bayard,2020); Comme une clarté furtive, naître, mourir (Bayard,2021); R. Tsaddoq haCohen de Lublin, La clarté hassidique, (Arfuyen,2022).
Keren Yehezkel is a Philosophy PhD candidate atTel Aviv University, and the Academic Director of the Rogovin Program foroutstanding youth in the Humanities. Her dissertationexplores the notion of the ‘trace’ by addressing the attributes as expressed inwork of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Insofar as to suggest are-articulation of the photographic trace, and redefine, the approach tootherness and the ethical implications involved. Furthermore, consider thepossible links to language, death and time.
Anna Yungerman is a philosophyPhD student at Tel Aviv University, focusing mainly on Continental philosophy,contemporary French thought, philosophy of emotions and the intersectionsbetween philosophy and literature. Her research examines the connection betweenfriendship and mourning in the textualdialogue between Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille.
