"« Studies »must be understood in the
painters sense: "study of a hand", "study of the head of
an old man ", etc. In other words, here we only find texts
self-employed, who are not part of any group. However, all who have the same way, and all have as a resource a single problem: the world of the world.
These studies are seven. They go, so to speak, from Socrates to Socrates,
as they start with a reading from Jean-Toussaint Desanti and close
with reflections on the Phaedo. The first three are grouped under the title "The Masters" and the concierge, Desanti, Heidegger and Lacan. Under the title of "Archipolitics" it is
then an isolated study, which made some noise in its time and
I daresay it is becoming more and more current: "The 1930s are before us." Then you will see a couple of notions: "See and paint", a text about the visual and infinite field in Wittgenstein ("The world and its expression") and another that illustrates Quattrocento's painting in light of Leonardo's Treatise on painting gives Vinci
Finally, everything closes (or opens) in what constitutes in effect the two terms of our existence: birth and death.
The seventh of these studies opposes the Husserlian problem of meat in Ideas II with a "definition" of birth (reckless, obviously), while the last, already mentioned, seeks to understand what the exemplary nature of Socrates consists of. from its last sun.
Gérard Granel "