Gérard Granel (; 1930 – 10 November 2000) was a

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Life and work

Born in

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, Granel attended the

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and the courses of Michel Alexandre,

Jean Hyppolite Jean Hyppolite (; 8 January 1907 – 26 October 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His ...

and, later, of

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. He taught in

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, before being appointed professor of philosophy at the Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail, a position he held from 1972 until his death. Granel translated numerous philosophical texts into French, including work by

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...

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. Granel was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including

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 ...

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

and

Bernard Stiegler Bernard Stiegler (; 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also the founder in 2005 of the politi ...

Works

In French

*''Le Sens du temps et de la perception chez E. Husserl'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1968). *''L’Équivoque ontologique de la pensée kantienne'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1970; second edition : Mauvezin: T.E.R, 2009). *''Traditionis traditio'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1972). *''De l’Université'' (Mauvezin: Éditions TER, 1982). *''Cartesiana'' (with Bernard Bouttes) (Mauvezin: T.E.R, 1983). *''Écrits logiques et politiques'' (Paris: Galilée, 1990). *''Études'' (Paris: Galilée, 1995). *''Apolis'' (Mauvezin: T.E.R, 2009).

In English

*"Who Comes after the Subject?" in Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor &

(eds.), ''Who Comes after the Subject?'' (New York & London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 148–56. *"Untameable singularity (some remarks on Reiner_Schürmann's_.html" ;"title="Reiner_Schürmann.html" ;"title="Reiner Schürmann">Reiner Schürmann's ">Reiner_Schürmann.html" ;"title="Reiner Schürmann">Reiner Schürmann's ''Broken Hegemonies'')," ''Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal'' 19/2–20/1 (1997), pp. 215–28.

In German

*''Die totale Produktion. Technik, Kapital und die Logik der Unendlichkeit'', hrsg. u. eingeleitet v. Erich Hörl, aus dem Französischen von Laura Strack (Wien & Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2020).

References and further reading

English

;Books *Alexandru Polgár, ''The Difference between Heidegger's Concept of Market and That of Granel''. See: http://www.gerardgranel.com/txt_pdf/Alexandru_Polgar_Difference_Int+chap%20I.pdf. Published in Romanian as ''Diferența dintre conceptul de producție al lui Heidegger și cel al lui Granel'' (Cluj: IDEA Design + Print, 2013). See: http://www.idea.ro/editura/ro/diferena-dintre-conceptul-de-pia-al-lui-heidegger-i-cel-al-lui-granel-d131.html. ;Articles *Christopher Fynsk, "But Suppose We Were To Take 'The Rectoral Address' Seriously…On Gérard Granel's ''De l'université''," ''Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal'' 14/2 (1991), pp. 335–362. *Christopher Fynsk, "A Politics of Thought: Gérard Granel's ''De l'université''," in ''The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004). *Douglas Steward, "Gérard Granel's Other University Now". See: http://www.gerardgranel.com/txt_pdf/about_steward.pdf.

French

;Books *

, Élisabeth Rigal (eds.), ''Granel - l'éclat, le combat, l'ouvert'' (Paris: Belin, 2001). *''Gérard Granel ou la rigoeur du dénuement'' (coll.) (Mauvezin: Éditions Trans-Europ-Repress, 2012). *''L'Archi-politique de Gérard Granel'' (coll.) (Mauvezin: Éditions Trans-Europ-Repress, 2013).

German

;Articles *Erich Hörl, "Die Problematik Granels", in Gérard Granel, ''Die totale Produktion. Technik, Kapital und die Logik der Unendlichkeit'', hrsg. u. eingeleitet v. Erich Hörl, aus dem Französischen v. Laura Strack (Wien & Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2020), 7-37.

External links

Gérard Granel website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Granel, Gerard 1930 births 2000 deaths Writers from Paris Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni Continental philosophers 20th-century French philosophers 20th-century French translators 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers