Adèle Van Reeth (born 1982), is a French

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and columnist.

Life

Studies, family

Van Reeth is the only daughter in a family of four children. She is of Flemish origin by her paternal grandfather. Daughter of an archivist, she moved a lot in her childhood due to her father's assignments. Anne Fulda
''Adèle Van Reeth, l'éclectique''
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'', insert '' Le Figaro et vous'', Saturday 10 / Sunday 11 March 2018, page 36. When she was 15 she spent one year in New Zealand. After studying architecture for a few months, she joined a

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where she prepared for the entrance exam to the

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. Once admitted, she went for the second year of study at the

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. She gave birth to a boy in May 2016.

Career

A specialist in film philosophy former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (promotion 2005) Van Reeth works and intervenes on the question of the ordinary, based in particular on the work of the philosopher

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. While she is eligible for the oral examinations of the philosophy

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, she finally prefers to leave this path to work in radio. Since September 2011, on France Culture, she has been producing and hosting the daily philosophy program ''Les Nouveaux Chemins de la connaissance'' alongside

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which was renamed ''

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'' in 2017. In December 2012, this program became the most downloaded show of Radio France, and maintains this position from time to time. After having participated in the show ' in 2011 and collaborated on ' (2010–12), she is a regular columnist for the program '' Le Cercle'', hosted by

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. In March 2014, she launched a series entitled "Questions de Caractère". (co-edition Plon / France Culture): she interacts with contemporary philosophers while keeping the spirit and approach of her program. The first volume, co-written with Jean-Luc Nancy, deals with jouissance, a theme on which she has already spoken several times. On December 19, 2017, it was announced that Van Reeth would take over from

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and host the new literary program of

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, still recorded in the Senate Library, ''Livres & Vous''. From September 2018, she hosted the show ' on France 2. As of August 29, 2022, she is the director of France Inter, the leading radio station in the country.

Publications

* ''La Jouissance'' in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2014. * ''Réussir le bac philo'', under the direction of Adèle Van Reeth,

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, 2014. * ''La Méchanceté'' in collaboration with , co-edition Plon / France culture, 2014. * ''L’Obstination'' in collaboration with , co-édition Plon / France culture, 2014. * ''Le Snobisme'' in collaboration with

, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2015. * ''La Pudeur'', in collaboration with Éric Fiat, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2016. * ''Questions de caractère'' (compiles five themes addressed in the program: jouissance, malice, obstinacy, snobbery and modesty)

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