France. Professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris, and associate member of the Husserl Archives of Paris. He directed the journal Philosophie (Editions de Minuit) from 1994 to 2003 and is the author of numerous books, most notably: L’événement et le monde (The Event and the World), 1998; L’événement et le temps (The Event and Time), 1999; Lumière (Light), 1999; Le chant de la vie. Phénoménologie de Faulkner (The Song of Life. Faulkner's Phenomenology), 2005; Le Néant. Contribution à une histoire du non être dans la philosophie occidentale (Nothingness. Contribution to a History of Non-Being in Western Philosophy), 2006.