Philosopher Marcus Steinweg screens two films by writer and film director Marguerite Duras (1914-96), Le Mains Negative (1978) and Césarée (1978). This is followed by a lecture titled, The Philosophy of Marguerite Duras. In his usual intense delivery, Steinweg explains that Duras is not a philosopher and without question did not want to be one; yet there is something like an implicit philosophy of Duras. What Duras calls writing is maybe not so different from the actual practice of philosophy. Writing in a Durassian sense is to dare to touch the untouchable, an experience that takes a subject to its limits. (Text after Marcus Steinweg)




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