# Jacques Derrida

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"Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key” with Gabriel Rockhill

In this episode of Coming From Left Field, philosopher and cultural critic Gabriel Rockhill joins us to discuss “Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key,” his new book co-written with Aymeric Monville. Rockhill examines how postwar French Theory—associated with think…

"Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key” with Gabriel Rockhilll

In this episode of Coming From Left Field, philosopher and cultural critic Gabriel Rockhill joins us to discuss “Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key,” his new book co-written with Aymeric Monville. Rockhill examines how postwar French Theory—associated with think…

Thinking through Creation

Christopher Watkin speaks about his book Thinking through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique. Watkin looks to the early chapters of Genesis for foundational doctrines about God, the world, and ourselves. In so doing, he advocates for a robust engagement with others about contem…

La théologie Réformée en France

In this special episode, Christ the Center welcomes Kim Tran and Yannick Imbert from the Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en Provence to speak about the history and current state of Reformed theology in France. This is a fascinating global discussion that spans the Reformation to contemporary philosopher…

Oda Davanger - Tracing Inscriptions: Can Signs be Embodied?

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Oda Davanger   Abstract: The paper, “Tracing Inscriptions: Can Signs be Embodied?” analyzes the linguistic implications of what it means to theorize bodies as in…

Srijan Uzir - Comparing Derrida and Merleau-Ponty's philosophies of Embodiment and Language

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Srijan Uzir   Abstract: In the late text Le Toucher - Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida engages with the French reception of Husserl’s Ideas II, focusing particula…

Thinking through Creation

Christopher Watkin speaks about his book Thinking through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique. Watkin looks to the early chapters of Genesis for foundational doctrines about God, the world, and ourselves. In so doing, he advocates for a robust engagement with others about contem…

La théologie Réformée en France

In this special episode, Christ the Center welcomes Kim Tran and Yannick Imbert from the Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en Provence to speak about the history and current state of Reformed theology in France. This is a fascinating global discussion that spans the Reformation to contemporary philosopher…

Michal Ben-Naftali on Literature, Holocaust Memory and the Silence of the Past

Israeli novelist and French translator Michal Ben-Naftali argues that we may be witnessing what she calls “the death of the reader”, in reference to Roland Barthes’ 1967 famous “death of the author.” For Ben-Naftali, literature asks readers to imagine experiences beyond the limits of their own live…

Episode 395: How Culture Shapes the Way We See Addiction: Stigma, Willpower and Why Environment Matters with Dr. Maria Cichosz

Maybe you've watched someone you love do something that makes no sense, something that's clearly hurting them and everyone around them, and you've asked, "Why would anyone choose this?" Or maybe you've asked that question about yourself. It's such a human question. And the answers we come up with, …