Geoffrey Bennington - Videos
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Geoffrey Bennington, contemporary philosopher and translator, discusses Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, deconstruction, Immanuel Kant, philosophy, rigor, the death penalty seminars, critique, Kant's The Doctrine of Right and Metaphysics of Morals, justice, revolution, law, necessity, reason, differance, and capital punishment.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2012
08/09/2011
Length: 1:22:27
Geoffrey Bennington talking about Aristotle's Politics, logos as what makes man as political animals, Jean-François Lyotard, animality, the human against the animal, logocentrism, sovereignty, political philosophy, Girard Sfez's account of Lyotard -- the eclipse of the political in Lyotard's Le Differend, linkage of phrases, the unstable state of language, idioms, Lyotard's The Inhuman, and his turning away from politics to écriture -- the inhuman as the metaphysics of development, globalization, the inhuman as animality, affect. European Graduate School EGS