Frank Darwiche is a Lebanese-French professor of philosophy in Dijon, France. He was formerly an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Balamand, and professor of philosophy at the ENSA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, in Dijon, France. He is also a researcher published in various peer-reviewed journals of philosophy. His interests include ontology, German philosophy (Heidegger, Kant, Hegel, Gadamer), phenomenology, and philosophy of art. Darwiche writes on most of his days, for different reasons and in a different manner. Commenting on the process of writing, Darwiche believes that for the researcher in him, writing is like “constructing an edifice-qua-essay or article or book.” For the translator in him, “it is taking something on and giving it a new voice, in a new world, a new language.” For the poet in him, writing is curated “to allow for the unsaid to come phenomenologically into the open of language.”
His numerous publications include:
As translator:
Arabic translation of: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann’s Philosophia perennis: Historische Umrisse abendlaändischer Spiritualität in Antike, Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1998.
French translation of Kamal Youssef El-Hage’s book, Between Essence and Existence, بين الجوهر والوجود soon to be published by Bayt Il-Fikr, Jounieh, Lebanon.
Jean-Marie Schaeffer, L’Art de l’âge moderne : L’esthétique et la philosophie de l’art du XVIII-ème siècle à nos jours (Art of the Modern Age: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art from the XVIIIth Century till Today.), Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, Bahrain 2021.
Alessandro Duranti, Linguistic Anthropology, Arab Organisation for Translation, Beirut, 2013.
As author:
Soon to be published: “Jean Pépin: accurateness in renewal,” in Contemporary French Philosophy, vol. 4, Sophia, Kuwait, 2022.
Soon to be published: “Jean Beaufret: between the Greeks and Heidegger,” in Contemporary French Philosophy, vol. 4, Sophia, Kuwait, 2022.
“Jean-François Mattéi: The Distance of the European Vision from Plato to Heidegger, in Contemporary French Philosophy, vol. 2, Sophia, Kuwait, 2022.
“Jean-Luc Marion: Toward a Dialectic of the Gift: from Descartes to Overcoming Dasein,” in Contemporary French Philosophy, vol. 2, Sophia, Kuwait, 2022.
“Maurice Merleau-Ponty: the Body in the Dealings of Phenomenology,” in Contemporary French Philosophy, vol. 2, Sophia, Kuwait, 2022.
“Phenomenology in France: Between a philosophical-scientific beginning and the Return of a theological Horizon,” in Contemporary French Philosophy, vol. 2, Sophia, Kuwait, 2022.
“Heidegger and the Thorny Issue of (Re)configuring Facticity”, in Forum Philosophicum, 26-2/2021.
“Nationalität als Sprache und Konfession: Kamāl Yūsuf Al-Ḥāǧǧ”, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: Philosophie in der islamischen Welt, Band 4: 19.-20. Jahrhundert, hgg. v. Anke von Kügelgen, Basel: Schwabe 2021.
“Heidegger and the Difficulty of (Re)defining Facticity”, in Review of Philosophical Studies, 15/2020.
“Kamal El-Hage’s Committed Philosophy,” in Towards Inclusive Societies: Middle Eastern Perspectives, Diyar Publisher, 2020.
“Taking a Heritage Over: Can Tradition Be Liberating for Women? Toward a Problematic of the Veil”, in Middle Eastern Women: The Intersection of Law, Culture and Religion, Diyar Publisher, 2020.
“Time”, in Critical Terms in Futures Studies, Palgrave-Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2019.
“Corbin beyond Heidegger: Between Death and the Infinite,” in Tabayyun, 29/2019.
“Heidegger Critiquing Hegel: Being and Time as a Sphere for Critical Debate”, in Al-Istighrab, 14/2019.
“Modernity: A Matter of Perspectives, Plurality and Transition”, in Tradition, Modernity and Post-modernism in the Arab Sphere, Arab Cultural Center, Beirut, 2018.
“Civil War: The Day After – The Experience of the Foreign and the Founding Return to the Ownmost Language through the Attunement of Mourning,” in Hawliyat, 18/2018.
“Kamal Youssef El-Hage: Essence and Existence – A Tension in the Aporia of Distance,” in Readings in the Thought of Kamal Youssef El-Hage: Between Philosophy and Nationhood, University of Balamand Press, Lebanon, 2017.
“Philosophy in Lebanon: The Urgent Question of Origins,” in Practising Philosophy in Lebanon, Orient Institut and Dar Al-Farabi, Beirut, 2016.
“Vers le Liban : pour un retour qui confirme l’appartenance (Toward Lebanon: A Return which Confirms Belonging)”, in La présence libanaise dans le monde : Humanisme, Culture et Altérité (Lebanese Presence in the World: Humanism, Culture and Alterity), Holy Spirit University Press, Kaslik, Lebanon, 2016.
“Thomas d’Aquin, le Summum ens et le Chemin vers la Différence Ontologique (Thomas Aquinas, the Summum ens and the Way toward the Ontological Difference)”, in Hawliyat 17/2016.
“Lebanon: the Necessary Re-Appropriation of History and Conflict,” in Identity and Conflict in the Middle East and Its Diasporic Cultures, University of Balamand, Lebanon, 2016.
“Vers le dieu : le soufisme d’Ibn ‘Arabi et la pensée de Heidegger (Toward the God: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Sufism and Heidegger’s Thought”, in Hawliyat 15/2014.
“La tolérance, est-elle garante de la paix ? (Is Tolerance a Guarantee for Peace?”, in Annales de philosophie et des sciences humaines 31/2014.
Heidegger : le divin et le Quadriparti (Heidegger: the Divine and the Fourfold), Ovadia Press, Nice, France, May, 2013.
“La tolérance : analyse et limites (Tolerance: Analysis and Limits)”, in Le Laboratoire, 2/2012.
“La distance dans l’art contemporain (Distance in Contemporary Art)”, in Le Laboratoire, 1/2011, p. 38 to p. 42.
“Le divin (Göttliche) au cœur du Quadriparti (Geviert) (The Divine at the Heart of the Fourfold)”, in La revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 3/2009, p. 309 to p. 332.
“Hegel et Heidegger : vers le dieu (Hegel and Heidegger: Towards the god)”, in Klèsis, 15/2010, p. 69 to p. 88.
“Introduction à une étude originelle de l’éphémère (Introduction to an Original Study of the Ephemeral)”, in Sciences humaines combinées, October 2007.
“Lebanon,” in Countries and Their Culture, New York, MacMillan, Yale, 2001.
