François Zourabichvili

François Zourabichvili (28 August 1965 – 19 April 2006) was a French philosopher who specialized in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Baruch Spinoza.

Biography[]

François Zourabichvili was the son of composer Nicolas Zourabichvili, nephew of historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, and cousin of author Emmanuel Carrère.^[1] He became agrégé in 1989 and earned his PhD in Philosophy in 1999. He taught at a lycee already from 1988 to 2001, was docent at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, and a director at the Collège international de philosophie from 1998 to 2004.^[2] He committed suicide in 2006 and is buried in the Russian Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris (XVIe arrondissement).

A year after Zourabichvili's death, the Collège international de philosophie and the École normale supérieure organized a colloquium upon Les physiques de la pensée selon François Zourabichvili ("The physics of the thinking according to François Zourabichvili") led by and . The event took place with the participation of Pierre Macherey, , , , Paul R. Patton, and .^[3][4]

Work[]

François Zourabichvili worked primarily on the concepts of "event" and "littéralité", inspired by the philosophy of Deleuze. In addition, he wrote about aesthetics, a discipline in which he centered his interest for the purpose of finding relations between art and game.^[5] He published some articles about the films of Boris Barnet and Dziga Vertov.

Partial bibliography[]

• La philosophie de Deleuze. Quadrige (P.U.F.): Manuel. with Paola Marrati, Anne Sauvagnargues. Editor P.U.F.
• La littéralité et autres essais sur l'art. Lignes d'art. Con Anne Sauvagnargues. Editor P.U.F.
• Leibniz et la barbarie. Editor Champ Vallon, 2005
• Spinoza. Une physique de la pensée, Paris, P.U.F., 2002
• Le conservatisme paradoxal de Spinoza. Enfance et royauté, Paris, P.U.F.
• Le vocabulaire de Deleuze, Paris, Ellipses, « Vocabulaire de... », 2003
• La philosophie de l'événement. París: PUF, 1994

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