Christopher Fynsk. Maurice Blanchot, the Double Relation, and Freedom. 2012

http://www.egs.edu/ Christopher Fynsk, contemporary philosopher, discusses Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, the double relation or imperative, language, speech, writing, literature, politics, Emmanuel Levinas, Judaism, violence, other, alterity, Albert Camus and The Myth of Sisyphus, Reflections on Hell, nihilism, freedom, hospitality, and community. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2012 Christopher Fynsk. Christopher Fynsk has been the Director of the Centre for Modern Thought as well as the head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. He also currently holds the Maurice Blanchot Chair for Continental Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Previously he taught at SUNY Binghamton where he was co-director and founder of the Philosophy, Literature and Theory of Criticism department. Internationally recognized as a Heidegger scholar and literary theorist, Christopher Fynsk has worked extensively with Philipe Lacou-labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy as well as others over the course of his career. In his book Heidegger; Thought and Historicity (1986), Fynsk examined Heideggers notions of human finitude and difference, especially through an examination of the role of mitsein in Being and Time. In later works, Fynsk has taken up the idea of language (that there is language) and its relation to being. His book Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (2000) continues this engagement with language. A meditation on death and language using the texts of Jacques Lacan and Maurice Blanchot, as well as the images of Francis Bacon, Infant Figures describes an emergent figuration that attends a human subjects birth to language. Amongst Chris Fynsks published works are Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy (1989), Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (1986), Politics Language and Relation: that there is language (1996), Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin (2000), The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (2004).