François Châtelet (27 April 1925 – 26 December 1985) was a historian of philosophy,

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, ...

and professor in the socratic tradition. He was the husband of philosopher

Noëlle Châtelet Noëlle Châtelet (); born 16 October 1944 as Noëlle Jospin) is a French writer and lecturer at the Paris Descartes University in the humanities. She is the author of essays, collections of short stories and novels translated into several lang ...

, the sister of

Lionel Jospin Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...

Biography

Châtelet was born and died in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 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), ma ...

. Along with Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, he is at the origin of the department of philosophy at the

University of Vincennes Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (french: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) is a public university in Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is one of the th ...

, and co-founded 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 ...

(International College of Philosophy). In 1971 he was professor at the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the bes ...

. Official Webpage of the Faculty of Philosophy (University of São Paulo) This was an act of protest that he made with

Jean-Pierre Vernant Jean-Pierre Vernant (; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and ...

against the Brazilian military government. Châtelet has always been concerned with linking thought and action, engaging in a restless combat with his contemporaries. His conception of philosophy makes him more of a historian of philosophy than a philosopher. In his work ''une histoire de la raison'' (A History of Reason), he shows the role of philosophy in the constitution of modern Western rationality. His work ''Platon'' (

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 ...

) is a formidable invitation-initiation to the thought of the

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

philosopher.

Works

* ''Périclès et son siècle'' (Pericles and his century) (1960) * ''Platon'' (Plato) (1965) * ''Hegel'' (Hegel) (1968) * ''La philosophie des Professeurs'' (The Philosophy of Professors) (1970) * ''Histoire de la philosophie'' (History of Philosophy) (1972–1973) — 8 volumes * ''Une histoire de la raison'' (A History of Reason)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chatelet, Francois 1925 births 1985 deaths Writers from Paris French historians of philosophy Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis faculty University of São Paulo faculty 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French philosophers 20th-century French male writers