For all January events, tickets will go on sale starting Tuesday December 20th (Tuesday, December 13th for subscribers)
Modern Islam: a Tragedy?
Thursday, January, 12th at 6:30 pm
Symposium hosted by Jean-Marie Durand
With Hamadi Redissi.
Readings from texts by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Al-Fârâbî, Averroès, Kheireddine Pacha
The tragedy of modern Islam comes from its disorientation, its oscillation between tradition and modernity at all costs. The Arab revolutions that we have witnessed over the last year demand that we remain extremely vigilant and maintain a critical eye: we must not forget that modernity will always be an unfinished project but we must also remain terribly conscious of the fact that in Islam, modernity is still an unplowed field that one must cultivate, sew and plow over and over again…
Hamadi Redissi is professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Tunis. He has already published at Seuil: L’Exception islamiste / The Islamist Exception (2004), Le Pacte de Nadj / Nadj’s Pact (2007) et La Tragédie de l’islam moderne / The Tragedy of Modern Islam (2011).
In Partnership with Seuil and les Inrockuptibles
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
Leonis’s “Music at Noon”
The Lady of the Camellias concert
Friday, January 13th at12h
The Leonis Quartet will perform a musical echo to the play La Dame aux camellias / The Lady of the Camellias
With:
Guillaume Antonini Violin 1
Sébastien Richaud Violin 2
Alphonse Dervieux Alto
Jean-Lou Loger Cello
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
On the edge of the stage
The Lady of the Camellias, encounters
Saturday, January 14th at 5:30 pm
Round table discussion hosted by Laure Adler
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin
free admission upon reservation present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr or 01 44 85 40 44
Projection
Adagio [Mitterrand, le secret et la mort]
Monday, January 16th at 7:30 pm
Présentation d'Adagio [Mitterrand, le secret la mort], mise en scène Olivier Py, en présence de Philippe Girard, suivie d’une diffusion de la captation dans sa version télévisuelle de 107 minutes.
En partenariat avec la COPAT et Visioscène
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Grande salle
free admission upon reservation present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr or 01 44 85 40 44
Enlightenment in the present tense
– a philosophical dictionary
Freedom(s)
Thursday, January 19th at 6:30 pm.
with Geneviève Fraisse and Fethi Benslama
round table discussion and debate hosted by Gisèle Berkman
What has become of political freedom today, the freedom of bodies and of subjects as we are faced with imposing double binds that make it impossible to choose between our demands for more protection and security and the free market circulation of goods?
How can we rethink today, a certain legacy of the Enlightenment, and what meaning can we give to that which Jean Starobinski has called, the invention of freedom?
Geneviève Fraisse, philosopher, director of research at the CNRS, is a specialist on the History of gender controversy, from an epistemological and political point of view. Her recent publications include: : À côté du genre, sexe et philosophie de l’égalité / Next to Gender: sex and the philosophy of equality (Le Bord de l’eau, 2010), Les Femmes et leur histoire / Women and their History (1998), (Folio-Gallimard, 2010), Service ou servitude, essai sur les femmes toutes mains /Service or Servitude, an essay on women of all trades (1979), (Le Bord de l’eau, 2009), Le Privilège de Simone de Beauvoir / The privilege of Simone de Beauvoir (Actes Sud, 2008), Du consentement / On Consent (Seuil, 2007).
Fethi Benslama, psychoanalyst, professor of psychopathology, director of the Human clinical Sciences section at the University of Paris-Diderot-Paris VII, has published numerous studies on the Psychoanalytic Clinic, on Islam and Europe in the contemporary age. Recent publications include : Déclaration d’insoumission, à l’usage des musulmans et de ceux qui ne le sont pas / A declaration of insubordination to be used by Muslims and those who are not (Flammarion 2005), Soudain la révolution / Suddenly, the Revolution (Paris, Denoël, 2011).
In partnership with the Collège International de Philosophie
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
Philosophers in Love
by Raphaël Enthoven
Nietzsche and Lou Salomé
Saturday, January, 21st, 2012, at 3 pm.
Here, observe this soul that has made for itself a body, with a mere breath.
With Dorian Astor, author of Nietzsche («Folio biographies», Gallimard)
Why did Socrates refuse to sleep with Alcibiades? Through what sleight of hand can one justify the fact that two people who love each other, do not make love? What is hidden behind the transparency that Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir brandished for all to see? Can we say that Zarathustra is the offspring of Nietzsche and Lou Salomé? Is Hannah Arendt’s political thought a means of adding onto Heidegger’s philosophy, “the intermediary space of the world” that was lacking in their own love affair? Is philosophy, as its name indicates, the “love of wisdom”, or else, as its practice has demonstrated, a wisdom of love?
All these questions, and many others, will be knocked about on the big stage of the Odeon Theater during a series of encounters and debates about philosophers in love and their intimate correspondence (two voices will be doing the reading). The goal is not to reduce a whole system of thought to simple love stories, but to show how love, for better, is always, in the end, a philosophical principle.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Main auditorium / Ticket price : 5€
Special Evening
The Mychkine Prize
Monday, January 30th at 8pm
The Founding Committee of the Prix Mychkine / The Mychkine Prize (Maren Sell – Paris, Peter Weibel – Karlsruhe, Peter Sloterdijk – Karlsruhe, Regina Haslinger – Vienna, Rene Gude – Amsterdam, Jozsef Bugovics – Leipzig) decided to create a new prize in order to honor exemplary work in the world of social commitment, arts and techniques.
The Prize’s name refers to Prince Mychkine, the leading character of Dostoyevsky’s great psychological novel, The Idiot. Under the character traits of the Prince, the great writer gave us a condensed version of his vision of the possibility and the impossibility of being a “perfect man” within the conditions set by modern life. With his childlike, in-your-face attitude existence, his unprotected frankness and his unconditional generosity, Mychkine finds himself in a contradiction from which there appears to be no exit, given the rules and mores of his social milieu and times. How can the essential values of our European spiritual traditions and other world cultures, find an echo, a credible incarnation in today’s world? In order to come up with a viable answer, one that people will listen to, we must begin by thinking perhaps, in terms that echo Mychkine’s temperament and personality.
The concept of the “greatness of soul”, brings us back to one of the fundamentals of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. This keystone work in the history of ancient Greek ethics illustrates the conviction of our ancestors according to which bliss is the “natural salary” of virtue. Even though classical ethics prefers to speak of “values” rather than “virtues”, the Aristotelian reflections concerning the contribution of intellectual virtues instead of “the good life” resonates today with great acuity. This is why the Mychkine Prize committee has decided to pay tribute to the authors of works who have contributed to bringing about a climate favorable to the “greatness of soul” – not only in the sense given by the ancient Greeks, but also in the spirit of the humanist and solidarity ethics of our modern times.
This prize, awarded each year, will be given during a public ceremony. The first one will take place on January 30th, 2012 at the Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris and then alternately in Amsterdam, Karsruhe, Leipzig; the praises sung of the recipients of this award will be orated by renowned speakers. In general, two or three prize winners will be discerned each year in different categories. One of the prizes will award the completed work of the recipient, another one will award a work in progress. One of the prizes is 50,000 euros, generally given to the winner of the second category. The endowment and the expenses incurred during the ceremony are provided by private donations.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Main auditorium
free admission upon reservation present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr or 01 44 85 40 44
