Antonia Soulez (born 1943 in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
) is a French philosopher, musician, poet, and emerita professor of philosophy of
Paris 8 St-Denis.
Life
She started teaching philosophy in
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
before relocating to
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
. She then taught at
Tunis University
Tunis University ( ar, جامعة تونس, french: link=no, Université de Tunis) is a university in Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1960 on the basis of earlier educational establishments.
The University of Tunis is a member of the Mediterr ...
,
Créteil
Créteil () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Cré ...
, and
Nancy before finally settling at the university of
Paris 8 St-Denis.
She co-directed the
Collège international de philosophie The Collège international de philosophie (Ciph), located in Paris' 5th arrondissement, is a tertiary education institute placed under the trusteeship of the French government department of research and chartered under the French 1901 Law on associ ...
between 2001 and 2004.
Thought
After a thesis on
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...
, she shifted towards
philosophy of language
In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...
and logic and
Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrians, Austrian-British people, British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy o ...
. She is now a specialist of the
Vienna Circle
The Vienna Circle (german: Wiener Kreis) of Logical Empiricism was a group of elite philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of Vienna, cha ...
and of Wittgenstein.
Intellectual biography
Publications
* ''Détrôner l’Être, Wittgenstein antiphilosophe ? (en réponse à Badiou
Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouca ...
)''. Paris : Lambert-Lucas, 2016.
* ''Au fil du motif, autour de Wittgenstein et la musique''. Sampzon : Delatour France, 2012.
* ''Le projet d’une grammaire philosophique chez Platon : du Cratyle au Sophiste''. Paris : PUF, 1991.
References
External links
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1943 births
20th-century French philosophers
20th-century French women writers
21st-century French philosophers
21st-century French women writers
Living people
French musicians
French philologists
French scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
French women academics
French women philosophers
Philosophers of language
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Wittgensteinian philosophers
Writers from Paris
Date of birth missing (living people)
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