François Zourabichvili ( Georgian: ფრანსუა ზურაბიშვილი; 28 August 1965 – 19 April 2006) was a French

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

who specialized in the works of

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

and

Baruch Spinoza Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenmen ...

Biography

François Zourabichvili was the son of composer Nicolas Zourabichvili, nephew of historian

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (; née Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929 – 5 August 2023) was a French political historian who specialised in Russian history. From 1999 until her death in 2023, she served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Fra ...

, and cousin of author

Emmanuel Carrère Emmanuel Carrère (; born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insurance ...

. He became agrégé in 1989 and earned his

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in Philosophy in 1999. He taught at a

lycée In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ...

already from 1988 to 2001, was docent at

Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo ...

, and a director at the

Collège international de philosophie The Collège international de philosophie (; CIPh), located in Paris' 5th arrondissement, is a tertiary education institute placed under the trusteeship of the French government department of research and chartered under the French 1901 Law on asso ...

from 1998 to 2004. He committed suicide in 2006 and is buried in the Russian Church of the Holy Trinity in the

16th arrondissement of Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris (; ) is the westernmost of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. Located on the city's Right Bank, it is adjacent to the 17th and 8th arrondissements to the northeast, as well as to the ...

. A year after Zourabichvili's death, the Collège international de philosophie and the

École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

organized a colloquium upon ''Les physiques de la pensée selon François Zourabichvili'' ("The physics of thinking according to François Zourabichvili") led by Bruno Clément and Frédéric Worms. The event took place with the participation of Pierre Macherey, Pierre-François Moreau, Pierre Zaoui, Paola Marrati, Paul R. Patton, Paolo Godani and Marie-France Badie.

Work

François Zourabichvili worked primarily on the concepts of "''event''" and "''littéralité''", inspired by the philosophy of Deleuze. In addition, he wrote about

aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...

, a discipline in which he centered his interest for the purpose of finding relations between

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

and

game A game is a structured type of play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or video games) or art ...

.François Zourabichvili : La littéralité et autres essais sur l’art.
, ''ACTU PHILOSOPHIA'', Retrieved 01 February 2014 He published some articles about the films of

Boris Barnet Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barnet was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federa ...

and

Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary ...

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zourabichvili, Francois 1965 births 2006 deaths Continental philosophers French philosophers of art Scholars of contemporary philosophy French male essayists 20th-century French essayists 20th-century French male writers 20th-century French philosophers Spinoza scholars French people of Georgian descent 2006 suicides Suicides in Paris Zourabichvili family