Pei-Yun Chen

Visiting date: 2024.07-2024.09

At the beginning of this summer, I was invited to visit the Farm for Change: Climate, Eco-poetics, Earth Justice (FFC) unit of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, and was amazed by how wonderful the farming was. It was a wet afternoon; the rain flooded the farm. Raindrops fell from the plants; the air was fresh on the roof. The scene of solemnity and tranquility of life as such presented itself; it filled me with wonder. My research interest is contemporary Continental Philosophy, especially French post-structualism. In recent years my research has focused on vitalism in French philosophy. It would be a great chance, I am convinced, to explore nature and life by actually growing plants with physical labor. In so doing, the complicated relationship between abstract ideas and body may be more explicated in many ways. (2024.07-2024.09)

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