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Fares Chalabi: Intensive Listening: Unfolding the Notion of Justice Through Reading the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Intensive Listening: Unfolding the Notion of Justice Through Reading the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan
(p. 63 – 94)

Fares Chalabi

Intensive Listening: Unfolding the Notion of Justice Through Reading the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan

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  • criticism
  • justice
  • society

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Fares Chalabi

was born in Beirut in 1977. He obtained his BA in philosophy in 2002 from the Lebanese University, and a diploma in architecture at Université De Balamand-Académie Libanaise Des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in 2004. He continued his studies in philosophy at Paris 8 where he obtained a Master 2 in 2008, and his PhD in 2016. Today Chalabi teaches philosophy at American University of Beirut (AUB), and art theory at ALBA and Université Saint-Joseph (USJ). His main fields of interest are the study of ontological argumentation, ethics and aesthetics—in line with the Deleuzian approach.
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