François Dosse (; born 22 September 1950) is a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and philosopher who specializes in intellectual history.

Biography

After devoting his doctoral thesis (1983) to the Annales School, Dosse turned his research interests to structuralism, the philosopher Paul Ricœur (his biography, ''Paul Ricœur. Les sens d'une vie'' (published in 1997), has become the standard authority) and the historian

Michel de Certeau Michel de Certeau (; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion. He was kn ...

. François Dosse is one of the founders of the journal '' EspacesTemps''. In 2007, he published '' Gilles Deleuze et

Félix Guattari Pierre-Félix Guattari ( , ; 30 April 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and ecosophy with Arne Næs ...

, biographie croisée'' (English trans. ''Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives''

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, where he advocated the rehabilitation of Guattari in an intellectual history that had made place only for Deleuze. In 2011 he published a biography on the French historian

Pierre Nora Pierre Nora (born 17 November 1931) is a French historian elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He is the brother of ...

and in 2014 on the Greek-French philosopher

Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis ( el, Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was ... granted full French citizenship in 1970." philosopher, social critic, economist, ps ...

. Dosse is Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres at

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.Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel
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Publications

* ''L'Histoire en miettes. Des "Annales" à la "nouvelle histoire"'', Paris,

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, 1987 (2nd edition : Presses Pocket, "Agora", 1997). * ''Histoire du structuralisme. Tome 1 : Le champ du signe'', Paris, La Découverte, 1991. nglish translation: "History of Structuralism; The Rising Sign 1945-1966"* ''Histoire du structuralisme. Tome 2 : Le chant du cygne'', Paris, La Découverte, 1992. nglish translation: "History of Structuralism; The Sign Sets 1967-Present"* ''L'Instant éclaté. Entretien avec

Pierre Chaunu Pierre Chaunu (17 August 1923 – 22 October 2009) was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitati ...

'', Paris, Aubier, 1994. * ''L'Empire du sens. L'humanisation des sciences humaines'', Paris, La Découverte, 1995. * '' Paul Ricœur. Les sens d'une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 1997. * ''L'Histoire'', Paris, Armand Colin, 2000. * ''

. Le marcheur blessé'', Paris, La Découverte, 2002. * ''La Marche des idées. Histoire des intellectuels, histoire intellectuelle'', Paris, La Découverte, 2003. * ''Le Pari biographique. Écrire une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2005, 2011. * ''Paul Ricœur, Michel de Certeau. Entre le dire et le faire'', Paris, Cahiers de l'Herne, 2006. * ''Paul Ricœur et les sciences humaines'', Paris, La Découverte, 2007. * '' Gilles Deleuze et

, biographie croisée'', Paris, La Découverte, 2007. nglish translation: "Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives"*
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', co-edited by Christian Delacroix and Patrick Garcia, Paris, La Découverte, 2009. * ''Renaissance de l'événement'', Paris, PUF, coll. « Le nœud gordien », 2010. * ''

. Homo Historicus'', Paris, Perrin, 2011. * '' Castoriadis. Une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2014. * ''Les hommes de l'ombre : Portraits d'éditeurs'', Paris, Perrin, 2014. * ''Le Philosophe et le Président'', Paris, Stock, 2017. * ''La saga des intellectuels français I: À l'épreuve de l'histoire (1944-1968)'', Paris, Gallimard, 2018. * ''La saga des intellectuels français II: L’avenir en miettes (1968-1989)'', Paris, Gallimard, 2018. * ''

Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (; 23 July 1930 – 29 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the '' École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' (EHESS) in 1969. Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, bu ...

. Une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2020.

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