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• Carl Schmitt

  German jurist and political theorist (1888–1985), author of Politische Theologie (1922), Die Diktatur (1921), Der Begriff des Politischen / The Concept of the Political (1927/1932), Der Nomos der Erde (1950), Theorie des Partisanen (1963),…

• Emmanuel Levinas

  Lithuanian-born French philosopher (1906-1995). Author of Totality and Infinity (1961), Otherwise than Being (1974), and Existence and Existents (1947). In Knight's reading, Levinas is the principal counter-figure to Merleau-Ponty's elemen…

• Giorgio Agamben

  Italian philosopher (b. 1942), author of the Homo Sacer series (Homo Sacer, 1995; State of Exception, 2003; The Kingdom and the Glory, 2007; The Use of Bodies, 2014), The Coming Community (1990), The Open: Man and Animal (2002), What Is an…

• Jacques Derrida

  French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Genevan-French philosopher (1712–1778), author of Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1755), Du contrat social (1762), Émile, ou De l'éducation (1762), Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761), Les Confess…

• Michel Foucault

  French philosopher and historian of systems of thought. Author of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (1961), Naissance de la clinique (1963), Raymond Roussel (1963), Les Mots et les choses (1966), L'Archéologie du sa…

• Paul Valéry

  French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945). Source of two key terms in Merleau-Ponty's late ontology — "chiasm" and "implex" — and of the artist-becomes-organ figure MP cites in Eye and Mind. The 2026-04-28 ingest of Œuvres II Pléi…

• Plautus

  Roman comic playwright (c. 254–184 BCE), author of some 20 surviving comedies including Asinaria, Amphitryon, Miles Gloriosus, Aulularia, Mostellaria, Menaechmi (model for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors). On the wiki Plautus appears in his…

• Robinson Crusoe (figure)

  Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and its sequel Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) — read by Derrida (BS-II) as the first of two "isolated islands" of the seminar (the second bei…

• Sovereignty

  The wiki's master concept page for sovereignty as deconstructed by Derrida in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I (2001–2002) and Volume II (2002–2003), and as adjacently critiqued by Chouraqui (2021) ch. 9 from the MP-side. Sovereignty…

• The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I Jacques Derrida, 2009

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2008 FR / 2009 EN (seminar given 2001–2002) · Type: lecture-course (seminar at EHESS)

• The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II Jacques Derrida, 2011

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2010 FR / 2011 EN (seminar given 2002–2003) · Type: lecture-course (seminar at EHESS)

• Thomas Hobbes

  English philosopher (1588–1679), author of De Cive (1642/1647), Leviathan (1651), De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), Behemoth (1668, published posthumously 1681), Decameron Physiologicum (1678). The foundational figure of modern state-so…

• Walten

  A German verb-and-noun-and-participle family — walten, das Walten, durchwalten, Mitwalten, umwalten, verwalten, Verwaltung, Übergewalt, vorwaltend, bewältigen, unbewältigt, Gewalt, Allgewalt, Gewalt-tat, Gewalt-tätigkeit — that Heidegger d…

• Wolf and Werewolf (loup-garou)

  The wolf is the saturating figure of BS-I — it opens the seminar (pas de loup, "stealthy as a wolf," S1 p. 1) and closes it (Jean-Clet Martin's Marcwulf at S13 pp. 340–343). Every session crosses the wolf in some register: as silent intrud…

• Zoo and Asylum (the autoptic-sovereign institution)

  The wiki's concept page for the structural-genealogical parallel BS-I develops between the zoological garden and the psychiatric hospital as twin sovereign-institutional spaces. Following Henri Ellenberger's "The Mental Hospital and the Zo…