(Last updated : 2025-05-05 23:11:56)
  RUI MATSUBA
   Department   Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters
   Position   Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
■ Present specialized field
Philosophy and ethics (Key Word:environmental ethics,animal ethics,democracy,Levinas) 
■ Book and thesis
1. Article “Dura lex, sed lex”: the philosophy of law in Levinas’ thought  pp.23-36 (Single) 2024/09
2. Article La radicalité du manger Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy pp.139-147 (Collaboration) 2024/04
3. Article All We Need Is Love  pp.5-26 (Collaboration) 2023/12
4. Article The difficulties of love beyond species: The scope of Coccia’s love  pp.27-45 (Single) 2023/12
5. Article The conception of the “State” in Levinas: A political question in “Freedom and Command”  pp.52-69 (Single) 2023/08
6. Article The animality of hunger in the thought of Levinas Piron  (Single) 2022/01
7. Article The concept of democracy of Levinas : Within the nation beyond nation   (Single) 2021/03
8. Article The dissonant society : Levinas and Xenakis  pp.3-18 (Single) 2021/03
9. Article The possibilities from an-archy : Abensour as a reader of Levinas  pp.87-103 (Single) 2020/11
■ Book and thesis
1. Book Democracy Against the State   (Collaboration) 2019/12
2. Book Cats   (Collaboration) 2019/05
■ Academic conference presentation
1. 2022/08/28 « Radicalité de manger chez Levinas »
2. 2021/09/12 Levinas and politics
3. 2019/02/04 Emannuel Levinas and the ethics of dialogue (Philosophy for Futurability)
4. 2018/07/04 L'humanisme de la faim chez Levinas (L’Université d'été de l'Association Jan Hus “Homme nouveau, homme ancien”)
5. 2018/06/25 The Animality of Hunger (University of Sofia, Forefront - Derrida)
6. 2017/06/03 Sur la transcendance de la faim de l’autre (Conférence académique des jeunes chercheurs dans le cadre du Centre d'Etudes Multiculturelles (CEM))
■ Activity in society
1. 2020/04~ Online café philosophique
2. 2017/07~2017/09 Course of Lectures of Levinas
3. 2016/04~2016/06 Course of Lectures of Levinas
■ Lecturer and lecture
1. 2025/04/08 ゾンカ氏講演会へのコメント
■ Academic background
1. 2016/09~2018/05 Division of Philosophy, Master's Cours, Graduate School of Letters, University of Paris Nanterre
2. 2014/04~2020/03 Division of Philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
3. 2012/04~2014/03 Division of Philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
4. 2007/04~2012/03 Faculty of Law, Kyoto University
■ Belonging society
1. Japanese Society for Levinas Studies
2. Kyoto Association of Jewish Thought
3. Societe Franco-Japonaise de Philosophie
4. SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION IN JAPAN