Didier Eribon
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Didier Eribon is a French
author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life.
. (Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006). His biography of Michel Foucault
(1989), published in English in 1991 has been praised by Pierre Bourdieu
, Paul Veyne
, Paul Rabinow
and Hayden White
, among others, and is considered in France, according to Le Monde, as the best biography of Foucault. His 1988 book of interviews with Claude Lévi-Strauss
came out in English also in 1991.
Didier Eribon is professor at the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University of Amiens
(France). He has for years been running a seminar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
in Paris
. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
for several years, and at the Institute for Advanced Study
, Princeton
. He has lectured in a great number of countries and, in the U.S., at The New School
, University of Chicago
, Harvard University
, Yale University
, New York University
(NYU), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, among others. He was one of the speakers at the Conference "Foucault in Berkeley. Twenty Years Later", held in Berkeley October 2004, with Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Paul Rabinow, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Lucey, and others.
He is the author of several books already considered as "classics", including his Réflexions sur la question gay in 1999, Une morale du minoritaire in 2001 and, in 2005, Echapper à la psychanalyse (Escaping Psychoanalysis).
Between 1984 until rencently, Eribon wrote frequently for Le Nouvel Observateur
, the famous French weekly magazine in which he reviewed books in the fields of philosophy and social sciences. He currently lives in Paris
.
He is the recipient of the 2008 Brudner Prize
. But he returned the prize in may 2011 (see his letter : "I Return the Brudner Prize" on his personal homepage)
France
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author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life.
Biography
Didier Eribon was born in ReimsReims
Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....
. (Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006). His biography of Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
(1989), published in English in 1991 has been praised by Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
, Paul Veyne
Paul Veyne
Paul Veyne, born 13 June 1930 in Aix-en-Provence, is a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist on Ancient Rome. A former student of the École normale supérieure and member of the École française de Rome, he is now honorary professor at the Collège de France.-Biography:From an ordinary...
, Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California , Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory , and former Director of Human Practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center...
and Hayden White
Hayden White
Hayden White is a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe...
, among others, and is considered in France, according to Le Monde, as the best biography of Foucault. His 1988 book of interviews with Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
came out in English also in 1991.
Didier Eribon is professor at the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University of Amiens
University of Picardie Jules Verne
The University of Picardie Jules Verne is a university located in Amiens, France, and is under the Academy of Amiens...
(France). He has for years been running a seminar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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for several years, and at the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study
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, Princeton
Princeton, New Jersey
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. He has lectured in a great number of countries and, in the U.S., at The New School
The New School
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, University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, New York University
New York University
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(NYU), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, among others. He was one of the speakers at the Conference "Foucault in Berkeley. Twenty Years Later", held in Berkeley October 2004, with Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Paul Rabinow, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Lucey, and others.
He is the author of several books already considered as "classics", including his Réflexions sur la question gay in 1999, Une morale du minoritaire in 2001 and, in 2005, Echapper à la psychanalyse (Escaping Psychoanalysis).
Between 1984 until rencently, Eribon wrote frequently for Le Nouvel Observateur
Le Nouvel Observateur
Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French newsmagazine. Based in Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation ....
, the famous French weekly magazine in which he reviewed books in the fields of philosophy and social sciences. He currently lives in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
He is the recipient of the 2008 Brudner Prize
Brudner Prize
The James Robert Brudner Memorial Prize and Lecture at Yale University celebrates lifetime accomplishment and scholarly contributions in the field of lesbian and gay studies. It is bestowed annually by the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale...
. But he returned the prize in may 2011 (see his letter : "I Return the Brudner Prize" on his personal homepage)
Works
- Michel Foucault. Trans. Betsy Wing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991.
- Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss, by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon, Translated by Paula Wissing. University of Chicago Press, 192 pages. April 1991
- Michel Foucault et ses contemporains (1994).
- Insult and the Making of the Gay Self. (originally Réflexions sur la question gay (1999)) Translated by Michael Lucey. Duke University Press, 440 pages. July 2004
- Papiers d'identité (2000).
- Une morale du minoritaire. Variations sur un thème de Jean Genet (2001)
- Hérésies. Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité (2003)
- Sur cet instant fragile... Carnets, janvier-août 2004 (2004).
- Echapper à la psychanalyse (2005).
- D'une revolution conservatrice et de ses effets sur la gauche francaise (2007).
- Retour à Reims (2009).