Background
He is the son of the famous Egyptologist Jacques Berque.
He is the son of the famous Egyptologist Jacques Berque.
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
He is professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ). His specialist field of interest is Japan. Berque has developed an extensive array of concepts in order to grasp the complex nature of relations between natural and physical objects and the way we conceive of nature.
He insists on intermediation, introducing a new concept (Médiance in French).
His more theoretical work relies on the concept of oecumene, which he uses after Plato and quite distinctly from the sense proposed by Derrida. He has also worked on landscapes by comparing the different visions of the world that are mirrored by a specific landscape.
Price of the Japan Foundation.
Academia Europaea.
