Bernard Stevens – Arendt and Maruyama: Two Contemporary Approaches to Totalitarianism Keynote Speech delivered at the 1st ENOJP Conference in Barcelona 2015 #ENOJP1 #ENOJP2015 Prof. STEVENS was born in Jakarta (Indonesia) under Belgian parents living there as diplomats. He is a philosopher, translator and painter. He studied philosophy at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Trinity College Dublin and the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) where he has been FNRS researcher and professor. His teachers were Jacques Taminiaux, Jean Ladriere, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur and Shizuteru Ueda. Stevens was a program director at the International College of Philosophy (Paris) from 1993 to 1997 and visiting professor at various universities in Europe (Liege, Paris- Sorbonne and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona), Africa (Kinshasa) and Asia, including Fudan (Shanghai), Fujen (Taiwan), Kyoto, Tokyo, Nagoya and Dokkyo (Japan). He is an honorary member of the Belgian Daseinsanalyse School, member of the Husserl Archive of Louvain and member of the editorial board of Phaenomenologica and European Journal of Japanese Philosophy. He is an associate of "Proceedings of the East" in Brussels. As the specialist in phenomenology and continental European hermeneutics, he has dedicated himself to the study of contemporary Japanese philosophy since the early 1990s and he was the first to be known in France through his works on Nishida, Watsuji, Maruyama, Kimura and the other main representatives of the Kyoto School philosophers. He has contributed his articles to several journals including: Zen Buddhism Today, Heidegger Studies, Les Temps modernes, Esprit, Philosophie, Eludes phenomenologiques et la Revue Philosophique de Louvain. In taking some distance from the academic world, he has been devoting himself to Buddhism, particularly in Triratna, L'Ordre Bouddhiste Occidental (AOBO) founded by Sangharakshita. For more informations: http://enojp.org/ http://chisokudopublications.com/