Charbel EL AMM February 2017 Email addresses: charbel.el.amm

Charbel EL AMM
February 2017
Email addresses: [email protected]; [email protected]
Education
- Ph.D. in Philosophy (summa cum laude), 2015, joint supervision: Saint Joseph University
(Lebanon, Professor Jad Hatem), University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland, Professor Daniel
Schulthess).
- M.A. in Philosophy, 2010, Saint Joseph University (recipient of the AUF scholarship for one
semester in Paris at Université Paris IV Sorbonne for the spring of 2008).
- B.A. in Philosophy, 2007, Saint Joseph University.
- B.S. in Computer Engineering (student excellence award), 2001, University of Balamand.
Research and fields of interest: Ontology, the concept of Nothingness, the relation between
Philosophy and Mysticism, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (especially Aristotle and Thomas
Aquinas), Logic.
Languages
Teaching and research: French, English and Arabic.
Spanish (reading).
Ancient Greek (reading).
Latin (Level 1).
Teaching
 Saint Joseph University (2011 –):
o Courses taught in French at the Department of Philosophy:
 Aristotle’s Metaphysics (011PHARL3. Philosophie antique: Aristote – La
Métaphysique).
 Aristotle’s Logic (011PHALL4. Philosophie antique: Aristote – la Logique).
 Plato (011PHPLL2. Philosophie antique: Platon).
 Thomas Aquinas (011PHMAL3. Philosophie médiévale: Thomas d’Aquin et
Duns Scot).
o Courses taught in Arabic and French:
 Arabic and Islamic Philosophy: God, the Cosmos, the soul (011PHAML3.
Philosophie arabo-musulmane: Dieu, le Cosmos, l’âme).
o Course taught in English:
 The Oriental Christianity (064TOCHF1) – taught at the Faculty of Religious
Sciences.
 American University of Beirut (2016 –):
 CVSP203: The Making of the Modern World.
 CVSP205: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Civilizations.
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Publications
I. Books
 Le Néant et Dieu (Paris: Orizons, 2017). Title in English: Nothingness and God.
 L’être-vérité. Questionnement à partir de Qui est la vérité ? de Jad Hatem (Paris: L’Harmattan,
2013). Title in English: Being-truth. An Inquiry Stemming from Jad Hatem’s Who is the Truth?
II. Articles
 ʽMaître Eckhart: "Le Néant, c’était Dieu"ʼ, in Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon. Authors,
Texts, Trends, Traditions, ed. Nader El-Bizri (Beirut: Dar al-Farabi, 2017). Title in English:
Meister Eckhart: “Nothingness, That is to Say, God”.
 ʽLa réalisation de soi selon une perspective aristotélicienneʼ, Alcinoé 7 (2016), 77-84. Title in
English: Self-realisation According to an Aristotelian Perspective.
 ʽUne analyse philosophique de la miséricorde de Dieuʼ, Fi Rihab el-Hiwar 10 (2016), 15-18.
Title in English : A Philosophical Analysis of God’s Mercy.
 ʽThomas d’Aquin dans La Philosophie de la liberté de Charles Secrétanʼ, Charles Secrétan
philosophe de la liberté, ed. Nicole Hatem (Beirut: Université Saint-Joseph, 2015), 95-109.
Title in English: Thomas Aquinas in Charles Secrétan’s The Philosophy of Freedom.
 ʽTrois conceptions de la liberté à partir de l’opposition entre la chair et l’espritʼ, Alcinoé 6
(2015), 51-57. Title in English : Three Conceptions of Freedom Stemming from the Opposition
Between Flesh and Mind.
 ʻDifférents visages du Donʼ, in Iris. Annales de philosophie 36 (2015), 115-136. Title in
English : Different Facets of Donation.
 ʽEléments d’une interprétation kierkegaardienne d’Aristote dans les Miettes Philosophiquesʼ,
in Kierkegaard notre contemporain paradoxal, ed. Nicole Hatem (Beirut: Université SaintJoseph, 2013), 97-119.Title in English: Elements of a Kierkegaardian Interpetation of Aristotle
in the Philosophical Crumbs.
 ʽMaître Eckhart : "le Néant qui attire Dieu"ʼ, Iris. Annales de philosophie 34 (2013), 1-41.
Title in English: Meister Eckhart: “Nothingness Attracting God”.
Symposia and conferences
 Découvrir la pensée suisse de langue française (2) : Amiel et le Journal philosophique.
International symposium organized by the Centre d’Études Michel Henry and the Department
of Philosophy of the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines at Saint Joseph University
with the contribution of the embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon, from the 9th to the 10th of
December 2016. Article: Considération sur l’amour dans le Jounral de Jean Guitton. Title in
English : A Reflexion on Love in the Diary of Jean Guitton.
 Découvrir la pensée suisse de langue française (1) : Charles Secrétan philosophe de la liberté.
International symposium organized by the Centre d’Études Michel Henry and the Department
of Philosophy of the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines at Saint Joseph University
with the contribution of the embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon, from the 27 th to the 28th of
November 2015. Article : Thomas d’Aquin dans La Philosophie de la liberté de Charles
Secrétan. Title in English: Thomas Aquinas in Charles Secrétan’s The Philosophy of Freedom.
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Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon: Authors, Texts, Trends, Traditions. Unesco World
Philosophy Day 2013, American University of Beirut. AUB, 20-21 novembre 2013. Article :
Maître Eckhart : “Le Néant, c’était Dieu”. Tilte in English: Meister Eckhart: “Nothingness,
That is to Say, God”.
Kierkegaard notre contemporain : international symposium organized by the Centre d’Études
Michel Henry and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences
Humaines at Saint Joseph University, with the contribution of the embassy of the Kingdom of
Denmark, from the 17th to the 18th of May 2013. Article : Eléments d’une interprétation
kierkegaardienne d’Aristote dans les Miettes Philosophiques. Title in English: Elements of a
Kierkegaardian Interpetation of Aristotle in the Philosophical Crumbs.
Affiliations
Member of the Centre d’Étude Michel Henry at Saint Joseph University.
Member of the board of Iris. Annales de philosophie at Saint Joseph University.
Member of Alcinoé.
References
American University of Beirut:
Nader EL-BIZRI: [email protected]
Saint Joseph University:
Jad HATEM: [email protected]
Nicole HATEM: [email protected]
The University of Neuchâtel:
Daniel SCHULTHESS: [email protected]
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