François Noudelmann. Philosophical authorship, pseudonyms and multiple personalities. 2014

http://www.egs.edu/ François Noudelmann, French philosopher and radio producer at France Culture, talking about the use of pseudonyms and multiple personalities in philosophical writing and authorship. What strategies do philosophers like Kierkegaard, Simone de Beauvoir, and Nietzsche use to insert authorial multiplicity into their work? Can a philosopher become his or her own double (or triple)? In the lecture François Noudelmann discusses the concepts of voice, the author's name, the alter ego, and self-construction, in relation to Deleuze, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hadot. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 François Noudelmann.

François Noudelmann, Ph.D., is a French philosopher, radio producer at the famous France Culture and professor. He is a renowned Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) scholar and he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the role of the image in Sartre’s philosophical thought. Noudelmann has been a professor at several universities. He is based in the French literature department at the University of Paris VIII, most famous as Université de Vincennes, which it is noteworthy to point out was founded a direct result of the famous May 1968 student protests. Prestigious thinkers such as Hélène Cixous (1937 - ), Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984), Jean-François Lyotard (1924 - 1998) and Frank Popper (1918 - ) would be involved in its inception. There philosophy would be taught with a commitment to against traditional academy by being open to the immediate social and political aspects of our time. Additionally, teachers and students are seen more as collaborators. Noudelmann has also taught at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee (Switzerland) where he conducted an intensive summer seminar. Additionally, he has also regularly taught in the United States at both Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as well as New York University. As an author François Noudelmann has written several books on the fiction of time, which study genealogical representations through philosophical and literary essays.

François Noudelmann was from 2001 to 2004 the director of the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh), an open philosophy university in Paris, which was founded in 1983, Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004) himself would it first president. For 8 years, from 2002 through 2010 he would host a radio show Les Vendredis de la philosophie (“Philosophical Fridays”) as well as Macadam philo (“Philosophical Tarmac”), both on France Culture radio. Since September of 2010 Noudelmann has hosted a new show Je l'entends comme je l'aime (“I hear it as I like it”) also on France Culture but this show explores philosophy through the medium of music. The show has interviewed many critical thinkers including philosophers such as Alain Badiou (1937 - ) and Avital Ronell (1952 - ), but also writers like Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (1947 - ) and Catherine David. More specifically, the show is usually aired on Sunday evenings and examines French musical and artistic culture, philosophy and literature. From 2008 to 2009 Noudelmann coordinated and participated in the first and only season of the blog project entitled 24 heures philo (“24 hours Philosophy”) for the left-wing French newspaper Libération, which combined news, critical theory and philosophy.