Alain Ehrenberg
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Alain Ehrenberg, born in Paris in 1950, is a French sociologist.
Author of a PhD thesis of sociology Archangels, warriors, military men and sportsmen. Essay on the education of the strong man, he subsequently became interested in the anxieties of the individual in modern society, faced with the need for achievement and Autonomy and the loss of social signposts and support systems.
After being a researcher at the Edgar Morin Centre
, Ehrenberg founded and co-directed the research group "Psychotropics, Politics, Society" at the CNRS
. He is currently the director of the "Psychotropics, Mental Health, Society" Research Center (Cesames).
Author of a PhD thesis of sociology Archangels, warriors, military men and sportsmen. Essay on the education of the strong man, he subsequently became interested in the anxieties of the individual in modern society, faced with the need for achievement and Autonomy and the loss of social signposts and support systems.
After being a researcher at the Edgar Morin Centre
Edgar Morin Centre
The Edgar Morin Centre is a graduate teaching and research unit of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris...
, Ehrenberg founded and co-directed the research group "Psychotropics, Politics, Society" at the CNRS
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The National Center of Scientific Research is the largest governmental research organization in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe....
. He is currently the director of the "Psychotropics, Mental Health, Society" Research Center (Cesames).
Works
- (in collaboration with Jean-Pierre and Patrick Zylberman Yahi) Archangels, warriors, sportsmen and small perverse genesis of competitive sports and fate of physical violence: Policy Analysis of the promoters of the French and Japanese karate, implantation to the institution, 1953-1976, Organizing Committee for applied research on economic and social development, 1977–1980
- The Military Corps: Politics and Pedagogy in a Democracy, Aubier-Montaigne, 1983
- The Cult of Achievement, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1991
- The Uncertain Individual, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1995
- The Fatigue of being oneself - Depression and society, Odile Jacob, Paris 1998 (reprint pockets Odile Jacob)
- The Uneasy Society, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010
Filmography
- Nervousness in civilization. From the cult of performance to psychic collapse, Conference Alain Ehrenberg, University of all knowledges, SFRS, Vanves, 2001, 76 '(DVD)