Samuel Buchoul is a philosophy writer focusing primarily on grammatology, writing as a practice and existential thought. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, exploring the possibilities of a dialogue between Derrida’s grammatology and the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. He is supervised by Prof. Ian James, and advised by Prof. Christina Howells (Oxford). Prior to the PhD, he was a philosophy teacher in France (certifié) for five years. Over the last decade, he has created several projects aiming at developing quality philosophical and literature study programs for audiences outside the university, among which, the Atelier des Pratiques Théoriques and the Institute for the Study of Texts. His articles have critically discussed the works of Derrida, Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Levinas, Girard, and explored questions pertaining to the fields of metaphysics, the philosophy of language, religion, creativity, foreignness, orientalism, gender and sexuality, technology, pedagogy, but also on current affairs. He holds a double Master in Philosophy (Manipal University, India, 2014), and Buddhist Studies (Delhi University, India, 2012), and a Bachelor’s Degree (Licence) in Information and Communication Sciences (UCO, Angers, France, 2009).

The Institute for the Study of Texts is an organization created in Delhi, India, in 2017. The Institute offers term courses, crash courses, film analysis programs and writing workshops, through a network of civil society stakeholders. At the IST, every person with an original and rigorous vision can propose and lead a program of textual study. Visit the Institute.

Writing Derrida is a series of fifteen public programs organized in Delhi between 2014 and 2016, on the works of Jacques Derrida, around the Facebook community of the India Derrida Group. Visit the community.