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Charbel EL AMM

Email addresses: [email protected]; [email protected]

Education - Ph.D. in Philosophy (summa cum laude), 2015, joint supervision: University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland, Professor Daniel Schulthess); Saint Joseph University (Lebanon, Professor Jad Hatem). - 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, Theology.

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.

Publications I. Books  Le Néant et Dieu (Paris: Orizons, 2017), 372 p. Title in English: Nothingness and God. This book received a very positive review in the “Revue Carmel” issue 164.  L’être-vérité. Questionnement à partir de Qui est la vérité ? de Jad Hatem (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013), 92 p. Title in English: Being-truth. An inquiry stemming from Jad Hatem’s Who is the truth?

II. Articles Forthcoming  ʽUnion essentielle et mystique nuptiale johannicrucienne dans L’Amour et l’Occident de Denis de Rougemontʼ, in Actes du colloque sur Denis de Rougemont, ed. Nicole Hatem (Beirut: 2018). Title in English: Essential union and sanjuanist nuptial mysticism in Denis de Rougemont’s Love and the Western World. Published  ʽConsidération sur l’amour dans le Journal de Jean Guittonʼ, Amiel et le Journal philosophique, ed. Nicole Hatem (Beyrouth : Editions de l’USJ, 2017), p. 343-363. Title in English: An inquiry on love in the Journal of Jean Guitton.  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, in Alcinoé 7 (Beirut: 2016), 77- 84. Title in English: Self-realisation according to an Aristotelian perspective.  ʽUne analyse philosophique de la miséricorde de Dieuʼ, in Fi Rihab el-Hiwar 10 (Beirut: Université Saint-Joseph, 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’esprit », in Alcinoé 6 (Beirut: 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 (Beirut: Université Saint- Joseph, 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 Saint- Joseph, 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, in Iris. Annales de philosophie 34 (Beirut: Université Saint-Joseph, 2013), 1-41. Title in English: Meister Eckhart : “Nothingness attracting God”.

Symposia and conferences  Conference given at Babes-Bolyai University on May 24th, 2018. Title: The unity of being in Aristotle.  Conference given at Babes-Bolyai University on May 22nd, 2018. Title: Nothingness: from immediate experience to ontology.  Philosophical symposium on Kamal El-Hage. February 1st and 2nd, 2018, at NDU and AUB. Title: Philosophy and Humanity in Kamal El-Hage.  Table ronde sur le thème : Saint Bonaventure : regards croisés. Conferences organized by the Philosophy department at Saint Joseph University on Thursday the 5th of October 2017. Title : L’âme et l'image de Dieu chez saint Bonaventure selon le Commentaire du premier livre des Sentences de Pierre Lombard. Title in English: The soul and the image of God in Saint Bonaventure according to the Commentary on the first book of Sentences of Pierre Lombard.  Conference on Kamal El-Hage. March 8, 2017, at Saint Joseph University. Title: L’essence et l’existence chez Kamal El-Hage. Title in English: Essence and existence in Kamal El-Hage.  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 27th 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.  Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon: Authors, Texts, Trends, Traditions. Unesco World Philosophy Day 2013, American University of Beirut. AUB, 20-21 November 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.

Affiliation to intellectual organizations Centre d’Études Michel Henry at Saint Joseph University. Member of the board of Iris. Annales de philosophie at Saint Joseph University. Member of Alcinoé.

Scholarships  AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) scholarship, student exchange program, to Université Paris IV Sorbonne, department of philosophy, for the second semester of the 2007- 2008 academic year.  Erasmus+ teaching scholarship to Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj, 21-25 May 2018.  Teaching scholarship to the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Toulouse, 5-6 April 2019.

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]