Gustavo Chataignier

With a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Paris 8, and a post-doctorate in philosophy from the UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Gustavo Chataignier is currently a teacher-researcher at the Philosophy Department of the Universidad Católica del Maule (Talca, Chile), after eleven years in the Social Communication Department of the PUC-Rio. Honored with a grant from the Institut des Amériques (IdA), he spent two months at the Université de Rennes 2, in the CELLAM laboratory. In 2016, he spent three weeks at the University of Valparaíso as a visiting researcher. He is a member of LLCP (Paris 8), CIRS (UCM) and NuFFC (UFRJ).

The project

Title: "Sujet et éthique dans la pensée d’Alain Badiou : formes de continuation de l’événement"

Although Badiou's thought can only be understood through the systematic connection and implication of the concepts of event, subject and truth, our reading points to the centrality of the concept of subject. This reading is explained insofar as it is up to the subject, as incorporation and generator of provisional stability in contingency, to judge, to name and, therefore, to make the multiplicity of the event endure. In other words, it is a matter of the primacy of practical reason, which ultimately organizes thought. The subject is the conceptual operator that problematizes contingency: the distance between lived contingency and thought contingency, or the logical void that substitutes the thing for the idea, through a rupture. That said, we have researched Badiou’s papers in IMEC’s archive and presented a speech at Maison de l’Amérique Latine, as well as made some interviews.

Host institution : Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur les logiques contemporaines de la philosophie, LLCP EA 4008, university Paris 8

Selective bibliography

• Temps historique et immanence: les concepts de nécessité et de possibilité dans une histoire ouverte (livre – Paris : L’Harmattan, 2012)
• 50 ans de déconstruction : Vitalité et pertinence de l'œuvre de Derrida. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2020 (organisateur, avec Ceppas et Ferté. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2020)
• Machines de l'écriture : des devenirs sensibles In : 50 ANS DE DÉCONSTRUCTION Vitalité et pertinence de l'œuvre de Derrida (orgs. Ceppas, Chataignier et Ferté). Paris : L'Harmattan, 2020, v.1, p. 183-196
• L'image de l'après : montrer et continuer la rupture In: LA PHILOSOPHIE INTERROMPUE Venir après la Reforma Universitaria de 1918 et Mai 1968. Org. par CHAUSOVSKY, A.; DONATO, E.; VERMEREN, P.; WELER, A. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2021, v.1, p. 211-218
• “The Tragedy of Logos and the Logos of Tragedy”. In: Hegel e o círculo das ciências (orgs. Miguel Giusti, Thomas S. Hoffmann, Agemir Bavaresco), 2023, Fênix (Porto Alegre, Brésil). Chataignier, G.; Souyris, L.