Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Graduate Student, Philosophie
Docteur de l'Université Paris I
Thesis Title: La transcendance comme problème phénoménologique : Lecture de Merleau-Ponty et Patočka
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Renaud Barbaras
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About
Mention : Très Honorable et les Félicitation du jury
Date de soutenance: 11 Juin 2011
La soutenance aura lieu le samedi 11 juin 2011 à 14 h 30 à
l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, dans les locaux du 12, Place
du Panthéon, 75005 Paris, en Salle 214.
Jury; Renaud Barbaras (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris), Jocelyn Benoist (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris), Pierre Rodrigo (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Karel Novotny (Université de Charles Prague, Prague)
Our research aims to analyze the question of transcendence, a topic that comprises an entire tradition of phenomenology. The dissertation proposes to bring to light the specificity of transcendence as an “operative concept” running throughout the texts of Merleau-Ponty and Patočka. Although not itself the object of specific reflection, this concept nonetheless plays a decisive role in the question of appearance. The notion of transcendence – which is present everywhere but rarely visible – inaugurates a new “mode of thinking” against “phenomenological positivism”, which allows for the essence of the thing or of “something” to be freed and helps in approaching the ensemble of phenomena. This notion is not perfectly known in the first hand, instead applying itself secondarily to the consciousness, to the thing, to the other, or to the world. True elucidation unveils itself differently, and takes on meaning from appearance.
