Jean-François Courtine

Career

Director, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Researcher, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques.

Views

Jean-François Courtine is a Heideggerian scholar. He brings a powerful exegesis of Heidegger’s work to bear on wider questions in German idealism, phenomenology and metaphysics. Thus, Courtine works through the Heideggerian critique of Husserl's phenomenology as science (1983) to elucidate the prior position of philosophy with respect to science and to counter the definition of philosophy as science in phenomenology and German idealism. A similar close reading of Heidegger is deployed on the question of the metaphysics of subjectivity in order to prepare for a study of the relation of language and death (1989).

Interests

• Heideggerian philosophy. German romanticism; deconstruction. Metaphysics.

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Heidegger, Husserl, Schelling, Derrida and Hölderlin (poet).