Fred Poché (born 21 May 1960) is a French

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

. Bachelor of philosophy (ICP

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), higher degree in language sciences from the University of Paris III : Sorbonne nouvelle,

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in philosophy (Paris X-Nanterre), and accreditation awarded (

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) by the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

as supervisor of doctoral students. He is professor of

contemporary philosophy Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy. The phrase "c ...

at the

Catholic University of the West The Catholic University of the West (UCO; French: Université catholique de l'Ouest), known colloquially to its students as «''la Catho''», is a university located in Angers, France. History Early in the 11th century this school became famous ...

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. His research concerns

social philosophy Social philosophy examines questions about the foundations of social institutions, social behavior, and interpretations of society in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations. Social philosophers emphasize understanding the social ...

and covers the following fields:

recognition Recognition may refer to: *Award, something given in recognition of an achievement Machine learning *Pattern recognition, a branch of machine learning which encompasses the meanings below Biometric * Recognition of human individuals, or biomet ...

dignity Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable ...

vulnerability Vulnerability refers to "the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally." A window of vulnerability (WOV) is a time frame within which defensive measures are diminished, com ...

, memories, wounds,

racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

, contextuality and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

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Finot Prize for 2009 awarded by the

Academy of Moral and Political Sciences An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

for : ''Blessures intimes, blessures sociales. De la plainte à la solidarité'', Paris, Cerf, 200

Published works

* ''Une éthique du vivre ensemble. La philosophie sociale de Cornel West'', Lyon, Chronique Sociale, 2017. * ''La culture de l'autre. Une lecture postcoloniale d'Emmanuel Levinas'', Lyon, Chronique sociale, 2015 * '' Le temps des oubliés. Refaire la démocratie'', Lyon, Chronique sociale, 2014. * '' Edward. W. Said, l’humaniste radical. Aux sources de la pensée postcoloniale'', Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2013. * ''A-t-on encore le droit d'être fragile ?'' entretiens avec Francesca Piolot, Lyon, Chronique sociale, 2013. * '' Blessures intimes, blessures sociales. De la plainte à la solidarité'', Paris,

Éditions du Cerf ''Éditions du Cerf'' ( French: "Editions of the Deer") is a French publishing house specializing in religious books. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the Dominican Order. The name is a reference to Psalm 42 (41): As the hart pantet ...

, 2008, ( Jean Finot Prize : Academy of Moral and Political Sciences). * ''El pensamiento de lo social en

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed t ...

. Para comprender la deconstrucción'', Prologo de Victor Florian, Editorial Bonaventuriana, Bogota, Colombia, 2008. * ''Penser avec

. Comprendre la déconstruction'', Lyon, Chronique Sociale, 2007. * '' Lévinas chemin ou obstacle à la théologie chrétienne. L’hospitalité des intelligences'', Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2005. * ''Organiser la résistance sociale'', Lyon, Chronique sociale, 2005. * '' Une politique de la fragilité. Éthique, dignité et luttes sociales'', Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2004. * ''L'échec traversé'' (avec Véronique Margron) Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2003. * ''J'ai envie de savoir'' (avec Bruno Hubert), postface d’

Albert Jacquard Albert Jacquard (23 December 1925 – 11 September 2013) was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist. He was well known for defending ideas related to science, degrowth, needy persons and the environment. He was 10 years an ac ...

, Paris, Éditions de l'Atelier, 2001. * ''Reconstruire la dignité'', Lyon, Chronique sociale, 2000. * ''Penser avec

Arendt Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was born ...

et Lévinas. Du mal politique au respect de l'autre'', Chronique Sociale, Lyon, en co-édition avec EVO, Bruxelles et Tricorne, Genève, 1998 (3e édition, 2009). * '' Sujet, parole et exclusion, Une philosophie du sujet parlant'', préface de Michèle Bertrand, Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 1996. * ''L’homme et son langage, Introduction à la linguistique'', Lyon, Chronique Sociale, 1993.

English articles

* « Deterritorialization, globalization and citizenship », Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, n°66, 2014, p. 83-87. * « Metaphor knowledge and truth, according to Paul Ricoeur », Edited by Raul Fornet-Betancourt), Justice, Knowledge and spirituality, Denktraditionen im Dialog : Studien zur Befreiung und InterkulturalitŠt, Band 36, Dokumentation des XVII. Internationalen Seminars des Dialogprogramms Nord-SŸd, Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz 2014, p. 183-18

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