François Zourabichvili

François Zourabichvili was a French philosopher born on August 28, 1965, in Poitiers, France, and died on April 19, 2006, in Paris. He was the son of composer Nicolas Zourabichvili and nephew of historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. He achieved agrégation in 1989 and obtained his PhD in Philosophy in 1999. Zourabichvili worked as a teacher in a lycée from 1988 to 2001, was a docent at the University of Montpellier III, and served as a director at the Collège international de philosophie from 1998 to 2004. He committed suicide in 2006 and is buried in Paris. His work primarily focused on the concepts of "event" and "littéralité," influenced by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. He also delved into aesthetics, exploring the connections between art and game, and wrote about films by Boris Barnet and Dziga Vertov. A colloquium titled "Les physiques de la pensée selon François Zourabichvili" was organized in his memory by the Collège international de philosophie and the École normale supérieure.