François Noudelmann. Critique of Lying and Optimism (2012)

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François Noudelmann, contemporary philosopher, discussing the relation between, philosophy, truth and lying. During the seminar he refers to Nietzsche, Foucault, Freud and Marx. Noudelmann talks also about optimism, resilience, hope and compares the statements of Hegel, Socrates and Platon by reading passages from Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil. Seminar for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2012 François Noudelmann.

François Noudelmann is a French philosopher, radio producer at the famous France Culture and professor. He is based in the French literature department at the University of Paris VIII, most famous as Université de Vincennes, which it is noteworthy to point out was founded a direct result of the famous May 1968 student protests. Additionally, he has also regularly taught in the United States at both Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as well as New York University. As an author François Noudelmann has written several books on the fiction of time, which study genealogical representations through philosophical and literary essays. As a Jean-Paul Sartre specialist who wrote his dissertation on him, today still Noudelmann is inspired by Sartre.

François Noudelmann was from 2001 to 2004 the director of the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh), an open philosophy university in Paris, which was founded in 1983, Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004) himself was its first president. For 8 years, from 2002 through 2010 he would host a radio show Les Vendredis de la philosophie (“Philosophical Fridays”) as well as Macadam philo(“Philosophical Tarmac”), both on France Culture radio. Since September of 2010 Noudelmann has hosted a new show Je l’entends comme je l’aime (“I hear it as I like it”) also on France Culture but this show explores philosophy through the medium of music. The show has interviewed many critical thinkers including philosophers such as Alain Badiou (1937 – ) and Avital Ronell (1952 – ), but also writers like Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (1947 – ) and Catherine David.

Noudelmann has published over the years many more works, including: Samuel Beckett (2006), Dictionnaire Sartre (“Sartre Dictionary”) 2004, Politiques de la communauté (“Community Politics”) 2003, Scène et image (“Scene and Image”) (2000), Francis Ponge : matière, matériau, matérialisme (“Francis Ponge: Matter, Material, Materialism”) (2000), Avant-gardes et modernité (“Avant-gardes and Modernity”) (2000), Beckett ou la scène du pire (“Becket or the Scene of the Worse”) (1998), Suite, série, séquence (“Suite, Series, Sequence”) 1998, Image et absence: Essai sur le regard (“Image and Absence: Essay on Looking”) 1998,Sartre: L’incarnation imaginaire (“Sartre: Imaginary Embodiment”) 1996, La Culture et l’homme (“Man and Culture”) 1994, Huis clos et Les mouches de Jean-Paul Sartre (“Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘No Exit’ and ‘The Flies'”) 1993, Le corps à découvert (“Uncovered Body”) 1992, L’incarnation imaginaire : l’image dans la pensée de Sartre (“Imaginary Embodiment: the Image in Sartre’s Thought”) – his Dissertation – 1992. La nature : de l’identité à la liberté (“Nature: from Identity to Freedom”) 1991.