Οδυσσέας Ελύτης
Τὸ Φωτόδεντρο καὶ ἡ δέκατη τέταρτη Ὀμορφιά
[…]
Κάτι Κάτι     δαιμονικὸ μὰ ποὺ νὰ πιάνεται σὰν
σὲ δίχτυ στὸ σχῆμα τοῦ Ἀρχαγγέλου     Παραλαλοῦσα
κι ἔτρεχα     Ἔφτασα κι ἀποτύπωνα τὰ κύματα στὴν
ἀκοὴ ἀπ᾿ τὴ γλώσσα

― Ἔ καβάκια μαῦρα     φώναζα     κι ἐσεῖς γαλάζια
δέντρα τί ξέρετε ἀπὸ μένα; ― Θόη θόη     θμός ― Ἔ;
τί; ― Ἀρίηω ἠθύμως     θμὸς – Δὲν ἄκουσα     τί πρά-
γμα; ― Θμὸς θμὸς ἄδυσος

Ὥσπου τέλος ἔνιωσα     κι ἂς πᾶ᾿ νὰ μ᾿ ἔλεγαν τρελὸ
πῶς ἀπό ῾να τίποτα γίνεται ὁ Παράδεισος.

* μουσική από: Zbigniew Preisner, Song for the Unification of Europe, μουσικό θέμα
βασισμένο στον ύμνο της αγάπης του Αποστόλου Παύλου από την”Επιστολή Α’ προς Κορινθίους”, κεφ. ιγ’ στίχοι 1-13, στην ταινία Bleu του Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Η φιλοσοφία είναι το νέο πεδίο μάχης στον αγώνα της Νότιας Αφρικής κατά της αποικιοκρατίας

Μία προσευχή για τις μέρες αυτές.

Καλή Ανάσταση!

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Τα περιθώρια του Derrida

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Στο εσωτερικό της προσωπικής βιβλιοθήκης του Jacques Derrida

Ευχές Χριστουγέννων 2017-2018

Συνεχίστε να κινείστε! Ατμός, ή Αέριο ή Στάδιο,  Αμπάρι, Καμπίνα, Κατάστρωμα, Κλωβός ορνιθώνα, Περιήγηση, Πορεία, Ταξίδι, Αίθουσα αναμονής, Βόλτα, Περίπατος, Βάδισμα, Γλίστρημα, Σκίτσο, Εκδρομή, Ταξίδι-συζήτηση – Επειδή να κινήστε πρέπει! 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFFkBcZ9nk&feature=youtu.be

Και μη γελάς & μην κλαις & μη χαίρεσαι
Μη σφίγγεις άδικα τα παπούτσια σου σα να φυτεύεις πλατάνια
Μη γίνεσαι ΠΕΠΡΩΜΕΝΟ

Νίκος Γκάτσος, Αμοργός, 1943

https://forum.aegean.gr/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=20910

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Έφυγε ο Derek Parfit, φιλόσοφος που διερεύνησε την έννοια της ταυτότητας και την ηθική επιλογή

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Ευχές Χριστουγέννων 2016

[…] αν θέλετε να σας ξυπνηθεί το ένστικτο του ωραίου
ή αν όχι τότε μια που ζούμε στον αιώνα της φωτογραφίας
ακινητήσετέ το: αυτό που δίπλα μας
ολοένα μ΄ απίθανες χειρονομίες δρα:
το Ασύλληπτο

Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, Μαρία Νεφέλη, 1978

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Έφυγε ο  René Girard, ανθρωπολόγος και θεωρητικός της «μιμητικής βίας»

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Voeux de Noël 2017-2018

Continuez à être en mouvement! Vapeur ou Gaz ou Stage,  Cale, Cabine, Entrepont, Cage à poules,   Tour, Voyage, Salle d’attente, Promenade, Marche,  Glissement, Esquisse, Excursion, Voyage-discussion – Parce que vous devez être en mouvement!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFFkBcZ9nk&feature=youtu.be

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Voeux de Pâques 2017

Εt ne ris pas et ne pleure pas et ne te réjouis pas
Ne serres pas en vain tes chaussures comme si tu plantais des platanes
Ne deviens pas DESTIN

Nikos Gatsos, Amorgos, 1943

Easter Wishes 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DOeIPoJuprBCGWSumjfz9EzOWQWzb3Ky/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p2WDS3UBcDboJnMxnELJIQ8E9risTHmV/view?usp=sharing

[…]
Merry birds of April
I am some tree
and my root has become a river
now that we know how black the sea is
and the river is gone…
Two leaves desert my lips
in the night
the angel of loneliness
in bold garments.

Merry birds of April
season hostile till the smelling evening
till within midnight.
My soul spit out a song
to fight the Spring.
I am a stranger in my home
a stranger in the streets
my name is Johnny, I have nothing of my own.

Nikos Karouzos, “Poems 1961” Collected edition “The first season”, Erato, 1987

The people of the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) & its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou, wish you Happy Easter!

(* video1, video2)

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End-of-Year Wishes (2024-2025)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q1Jah04s95oOuOfei_EJYT-0oWvi2uqy/view?usp=sharing

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland: The unbirthday song, Walt Disney Productions, 1951.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!: a parody of Jane Taylor’s (1783–1824). ‘The Star’ from Rhymes for the Nursery (1806)

The people of the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) & its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou, wish you a Happy New Year!

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Wishes for the Holidays 2023-2024

The people of the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) & its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou, wish you a Happy New Year!

[…] here the running waters here the garden
here the bees sounding in the branches
and buzzing in a child’s ear
and there the sun! and the birds of paradise
a huge sun greater than the light.

George Seferis, «Morning», in: Collected Poems, trans. by Keeley, E. & Sherrard, P., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, p. 128.

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Christmas wishes, 2022-2023

«Anogianos Bouncing / Pyrrhic» (from Anogia, Crete, Greece)

Climb. Feel yourself upwards.
[Steige. Taste empor]

Paul Celan, Speak, You Too [Sprich auch du], 1955.

The people of the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) & its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou, wish you a Happy New Year!

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Easter Wishes 2022

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWhI8S4oHTTMTosLesm3g-bx4S-TdfaW/view?usp=sharing

“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –

And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –
[…]

Emily Dickinson, “Hope” is the thing with feathers

The Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.)
& its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou,
wishes you Happy Easter!

* Music: Jakub Józef Orliński – “Fiat pax” from Zelenka: Laetatus sum, ZWV 90

Photo: Frame of the film Au hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson, 1966).

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Christmas wishes, 2021-2022

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UXkVWICVT2WbDEYlUzBD9HdIqDamy1u/view?usp=sharing

I clutch earth, air, roots.
The useless things can go, I say.

Katerina Aggelaki Rouk, In the Sky of Nothingness With Nothing, trans. by James N. Stone.

The Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) and its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou,
wish you a happy new year!

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Homage – Laurence Cornu-Bertot (1952-2021)

Farewell to the philosopher Laurence Cornu-Bertot, the colleague, researcher and close associate of our Laboratory, the teacher, the friend, who left us. We will remember the rare mixture of knowledge and deep kindness that she was, the one that resists the violences in life and then is returned, always beautiful, to the beyond.

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Death of  the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy…

The Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.), having the honor to host the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, on April 28, 2018, in the frame of the 1^st International Biennale on Practical Philosophy, bids him farewell with his own words, part of a future presentation that has remained suspended…

Philosopher suppose d’être étranger et de convier ou d’être convié à un concours, une confrontation, une émulation, un agôn qui n’est autre qu’un agir, une menée, une conduite et singulièrement un assemblement, une réunion grâce à laquelle peuvent se confronter et rivaliser à l’infini les désirs de sophia.

La rencontre philosophique suppose l’hospitalité des étrangers que sont les uns pour les autres tous ceux qu’anime un désir chaque fois singulier puisque tourné vers ce qui n’est pas déjà donné ni identifiable, vers ce qui ne sera jamais acquis ni identifié mais qui se tient justement dans la rencontre de l’étranger et dans la confrontation, la compétition, la ferveur et même l’égarement de la rivalité. Il peut même être nécessaire d’introduire une distance pour favoriser l’émulation, comme lorsque Aristote déclare donner le pas sur l’amitié avec Platon à sa propre estimation de la vérité. Tout philosophe doit avant tout se faire l’étranger d’un ou de plusieurs autres.

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Easter wishes 2021

The Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) and its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou, wish you Happy Resurrection Day, a Beautiful Spring & Happy get-Togethers!

Towards the air…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CENRoZi4YKQPfzIe10s40_8RlITHMID6/view?usp=sharing

[Holy Week (Μεγαλοβδόμαδο): music: Manos Hadjidakis, lyrics: Gerasimos Stavros, interpretation: Fleury Dantonaki]

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Christmas wishes, 2020-20201

No man is an island entire of itself; every man 

is a piece of the continent, a part of the main

John Donne

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ng-VJlvFFH19D1EIq4sikrhQ4x55W8C8/view?usp=sharing

The Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) and its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou, wish you Happy Holidays & Hope that we can be together soon!

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Roger Berkowitz, When Joe Biden Wrote to Hannah Arendt

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April 2020:  Instead of wishes

*Akra Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nitin Sawhney, Antony Gormley:

Zero Degrees, 2005-2008

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Christmas wishes, 2019-2020

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Manos Hatzidakis, For Education

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Jankélévitch’s dialogue with Michel Serres on the disappearance of philosophy (1975)

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Open Letter Regarding Recent Pronouncements
on Defunding Philosophy and Sociology in Brazil

Recently Brazilian President Bolsonaro claimed that he is planning to defund Philosophy and Sociology (and possibly other areas in the Humanities and social sciences) in Brazil. He seems to imply that public funding should flow exclusively to professional schools.

Written by Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto), Alice Pinheiro Walla (University of Bayreuth), and Catarina Dulith Novaes (VU Amsterdam), the letter is open for academics from around the world to sign.

In reference to the above see the text by Professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Filipe Ceppas de Carvalho e Faria, Associate Researcher of the L.R.P.Ph., here

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Gilles Deleuze, About Leibniz and baroque
[transcription in French]

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Easter wishes 2019

Jean Buffet, La déposition de croix, 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbVwnaOIfqo

The Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.)
& its Directress Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou,
send you their warm wishes

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Christmas wishes 2018-2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZFsNwoKtqA&feature=youtu.be 

...atoning for educability through extreme and delicate beauty

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

The Laboratory of Research on Practical and Applied Philosophy (L.R.P.A.Ph.),

wishes you Ηappy Hollidays and a Happy New Year!

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