"Philosophy feeds from respect, listening and comprehension of the diversity of opinion, reflections and cultures that enrich our way to be in the world."

UNESCO: "this year celebrates the anniversaries ot two eminent philosophers, Aristotle and Leibniz, who contributed to the development of metaphysics and science, logic and ethics."

Guanajuato, Gto., December 2, 2016.- Thanks to a collaboration agreement signed between the authorities of the French Alliance in Guanajuato, the Department of Philosophy of the University of Guanajuato through the academic bodies and the Coordination of Extension and Diffusion of the Philosophy, and the Mexican Cultural Centre (MCC), there was a cycle of five conferences on French philosophers, from November 2 to December 1 2016, at the facilities of the French Alliance in Guanajuato.

The cycle began on November 3, with the conference "Maurice Blanchot and Walter Benjamin: Kafka readers", of the Dr. Asunción del Carmen Rangel López, of the Department of Spanish Letters. The Coordinator of the Program of Reading Encouragement "Pasando Corriente. Talks about literature", in his conference she searched "explore, describe and polemize the nuances and nerves of the Blanchotian and Benajminian reading of some moments of the work of the author of "El proceso."

On November 10, intervened Dr. Cuauhtémoc Natahí Hernández Martínez of the Department of Philosophy, with the conference "Foucault, the politician and the politic". The professor and researcher analyzed and explored the relation "between life and work, between political and intellectual activity in Michel Foucault."

On November 17, World's Day of Philosophy, Dr. Patricia Castillo Becerra of the Department of Philosophy, gave the conference "Deleuzian becoming?". The coordinator of the Ph.D. in Philosophy, disserted on how to establish contrast points "between the ontological proposal in some of the main works of Gilles Deleuze (Paris, 1925) and some problems in the continental philosophical panorama." In addition, in "the idea of the becoming from his philosophical proposal and the main reaches of the "deleuzian century."

On November 24, Dr. Andreas Kurz, director of the Department of Spanish Letters, participated with the conference "Roland Barthes, "Sarrasine and the endless phrase". The writer and scholar read and analyzed "S / Z", "Critical Essays" and "The zero grade of writing", where "the set of the three books allows to sketch out the metaphysical thinking of Roland Barthes who, in great measure, was capable to represent the metaphysic of the French theory of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s of the XX century.

On December 1, Dr. Rodolfo Cortés del Moral, Director of the Department of Philosophy, offered the conference "About the concept of discursive practices". The professor and researcher presented the "concept of discursive practices as a paradigmatic example of the complex concepts, through which the emerging processes of the contemporary society, mainly of those related to the phenomena such as globalization, reconfiguration of the subjective processes, as well as the informatization of knowledge and culture."

Before the divulgation conferences of the French philosophy, on October 20th and 21st 2016, were offered two informative talks for the public, about the academic programs and cultural activities that are made in the University of Guanajuato through their Department of Philosophy and the French Alliance in Guanajuato, in their respective venues, as part of the collaboration agreement signed by both institutions.

An average of 70 people, in several days, attended these free activities. The cycle of conference was carried out in the classroom Dr. Paul Gendrop at the French Alliance in Guanajuato, within the World's Day of Philosophy, celebrated on November 17, date instated by UNESCO.

Irina Bokova, UNESCO's General Director, in her message with motive of the World's Day of Philosophy, 2016, indicated that "philosophy feeds from respect, listening and comprehension on the diversity of opinions, reflections and cultures that enrich our way to be in the world." Besides, she commented that UNESCO "this year celebrates the anniversaries of two eminent philosophers, Aristotle and Leibniz, who contributed to the development of metaphysics and science, logic and ethics."