３）Marcel Conche, Métaphysique (PUF, 2012)
Métaphysique — Marcel Conche
Marcel Conche stands as one of the most distinctive voices in
contemporary French metaphysics. In Métaphysique, his philosophical
vision finds its fullest and most systematic expression, presented here to
Japanese readers for the first time.
At the heart of Conche’s thought lies a radical philosophical
naturalism. Leaving behind the Cartesian subject as the ultimate foundation of
philosophy, he turns instead to Nature (physis)—boundless, all-encompassing,
and irreducible to any reality beyond itself. Nothing exists outside Nature;
yet Nature cannot simply be identified with matter. Conche thus opens a path
beyond the familiar opposition between materialism and idealism, toward a
metaphysics grounded in the inexhaustible reality of Nature itself.
His intellectual lineage reaches back to Anaximander and the early
Greek thinkers and extends through thinkers of infinity such as Spinoza. Yet
Conche’s metaphysics is not merely a theoretical system. Philosophy, for him,
demands a return to oneself: a willingness to distance oneself from social
prestige, received opinion, and religious authority, and to think freely,
quietly, and rigorously.
Such thinking carries us beyond the necessarily partial knowledge
offered by the individual sciences. Metaphysics asks a more radical question:
What can be said of reality as a whole, and what does our place within it mean
for human existence? Conche’s response does not culminate in dogma or
demonstrative certainty, but in what he calls a “lived conviction”—a conviction
in which thought and existence can no longer be separated.
This is also why metaphysics matters for life. To confront Nature is
to confront infinity, time, change, death, and the unknowability of the future.
Yet Conche’s philosophy does not end in resignation. It seeks a wisdom capable
of diminishing the fear of death while illuminating what he regards as a
fundamental human task: to create.
Standing before the abyss of the future, each of us must create a life
that has never existed before. And beyond knowledge, beyond doctrine, there
remains the possibility of an unconditional love that asks nothing in return. Conche’s
Métaphysique is therefore more than an inquiry into what ultimately
exists. It is an invitation to rethink our place within Nature—and, through
that understanding, to discover how we might live.
２）Pascale Cossart, La Nouvelle microbiologie. Des microbiotes aux CRISPR. (Odile Jacob, 2016)
The Japanese version was published in March 2019 by Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo.
１）Philippe Kourilsky, Le Jeu du hasard et de la complexité. Le nouvelle science de l'immunologie. (Odile Jacob, 2014)
The Japanese version was published in June 2018 by Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo.
