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Self-Introduction Recent Research Interest Profile Self-Introduction Dear colleagues and students, my name is Michel Dalissier, it is a great pleasure and honor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[179,76,93,63,47,178],"class_list":["post-25740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-news","tag-facultyintroduction-en","tag-outreach-en","tag-student-en","tag-outreach","tag-student","tag-facultyintroduction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25755,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740\/revisions\/25755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Dear colleagues and students, my name is Michel Dalissier, it is a great pleasure and honor to join the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS) at Waseda University, as an associate professor of philosophy.
\nMy teaching, research and supervision approach revisits a gamut of transversal issues in both metaphysics (such as \u201cconsciousness\u201d, \u201ccontradiction\u201d, \u201creality\u201d) and phenomenology (\u201cbehavior\u201d, \u201cstrangeness\u201d, \u201ctradition\u201d), as well as both logical thinking (\u201ccritique\u201d, \u201cmethod\u201d, \u201cobjectivity\u201d) and ethics (\u201cingratitude\u201d, \u201clife\u201d, \u201ctenderness\u201d).
\nThrough this somewhat eclectic academic undertaking within Western philosophy, I hope to revisit classical figures, such as Descartes on the concept of re-apprehending (reprise) and Leibniz on the Trinitarian perfections of God. Nevertheless I will also raise further contemporary predicaments, such as Hegel\u2019s logical contemplation of the world and Gadamer\u2019s truly methodical trend.
\nIn addition, my work intersects alternative fields such as aesthetics and literature, asking for example: \u201cHow might we distill the charm of a place or a person?\u201d, \u201cIn what sense is design related to history?\u201d, or \u201cWhat are Japanese screens (\u5c4f\u98a8 by\u014dbu) folding\u201d?
\nOccasionally, I will devote further consideration to controversial transcultural problems, namely, the weakness of comparison, the perception of what is imperceptible, and the very resource of what appears \u201cpre-mature\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I am a specialist of Contemporary and French philosophy, especially Henri Bergson and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. I recently initiated an international teamwork project regarding the edition of a huge fund of Merleau-Ponty\u2019s unpublished manuscripts. By examining and interpreting the marginalia of authors in both Europe and East Asia (Michel Henry, Tang Junyi), I intimate that such detailed philological investigations can substantially stimulate philosophical elaborations. I thereby expect to contribute to a transcultural reflection on the archiving, transcribing, and translating process of texts, in line with Paul Ric\u0153ur\u2019s phenomenological work on historical documents.
\nA strong current interest consists of implementing a meta-philosophical reading of the Contemporary tradition through the works of selected epigones (Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas). By strategically emphasizing newly-minted ontological and ethical hermeneutical keys, such as \u201cdoubling\u201d, \u201cplace\u201d, and \u201csubstitution\u201d, I intend to make an original contribution to philosophical research at Waseda University.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I received a MA (Dipl\u00f4me d\u2019\u00c9tudes Approfondies, DEA) in Robotics (Prehension Tests in Virtual Reality, 1996) and another in German Phenomenology (Husserl on Time Perception, 1997) at Paris-Sorbonne University. I was then awarded a Ph.D. on Nishida Kitar\u014d\u2019s concept of unification (\u7d71\u4e00 t\u014ditsu\/Vereinigung, 2005) at the \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes in Paris (EPHE), followed by an Accreditation Thesis (Habilitation, HDR) entitled Merleau-Ponty On Metaphysics (2014) at Clermont-Ferrand University.
\nTeaching at Osaka, D\u014dshisha, Kanazawa, and Tsinghua University, I have been a visiting scholar at the International Center for Japanese Studies (NICHIBUNKEN) and Ritsumeikan University in Ky\u014dto, as well as the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taipei, as a research grant scholar of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF) in Taiwan.
\nI have forthcoming articles on intersubjectivity and Michel Henry, and recent works include a monograph on Deleuze, a full inventory of the new unpublished manuscripts (nouveaux in\u00e9dits) of Merleau-Ponty, as well as studies addressing Michel Foucault on translation and Husserl on sedimentation. For further details about my publications, please see my personal page on the SILS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"