Expert in: Levinas
BERGO, Bettina
Professeure titulaire
- Phenomenology
- Psychoanalysis
- Levinas
- Nietzsche
- Hegel
- Jewish thought
- Germany
- France
- Values
- Theoretical and practical rationality
- Feminism
- Political philosophy
- Modern Times
- 19th century
My research interests concern the connections between Husserlian phenomenology, psychoanalysis (Freudian and some contemporary), and continental thought on sensibility. The thematization of sensibility and alterity, as found in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, in the formation of "I" and in some of sociality (notably that of Husserl on intersubjectivity) is the subject of current research.
I am also interested in Nietzsche's philosophy of forces in bodies, and his attempt to rethink European values. Finally, I am also interested in the distinctions between 19th-century rational psychology in German speaking cultures (Herbart, Brentano) and Revolutionary psychiatry in France (Pinel, Esquirol, and later, Charcot, among others).