Jean-Louis Fabiani (born May 30, 1951) is a French sociologist, professor of sociology and social anthropology at the

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, and the director of studies at the Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron at the

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

Education

Fabiani aggregated in philosophy at the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

in 1974 before graduating with his PhD in 1980 at the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

under the supervision of

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

Work

Fabiani's research has addressed the study of what he calls "configurations of knowledge" understood as the ways in which disciplines and scientific institutions are built and how they change. This problem was the subject of his book ''Les philosophes de la République'' (1998) published by

Les Éditions de Minuit Les Éditions de Minuit (, ''Midnight Press'') is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1941, during the French Resistance of World War II, and is still publishing books today. History Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and i ...

in the collection "Sens commun" (compiled by

). From 1988 to 1991, Fabiani was the director of regional cultural affairs in Corsica. In January 2015, Fabiani was appointed by

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as an Officier des arts et lettres in recognition for his “significant contributions to the arts and literature” of France.

Teaching

Fabiani is presently a senior professor at the

in the department of

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and social anthropology, a position he has held since 2011, as well as full professor and director of studies at the

. In 2014, Fabiani was the

Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...

Fellow at the

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in the department of history and civilization. Fabiani has held several visiting professorships, most notably at the sociology departments of the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

, the

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, the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...

and the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Bibliography

Books in French * * * * * ''L'Education populaire et le théâtre : Le public d'Avignon en action'' (Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2008 * ''Qu'est-ce qu'un philosophe français? : La vie sociale des concepts (1880-1980)'' (Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2010) * ''La sociologie comme elle s'écrit : De Bourdieu à Latour'' (Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2015) * ''Pierre Bourdieu. Un structuralisme héroïque'' (Seuil, 2016) Books in English *
Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism
' (Brill, 2020) Selected Articles in English * "The audience and its legend: A sociological analysis of the Avignon festival." ''The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society'' 32, no. 4 (2003): 265–277. * "Should the sociological analysis of art festivals be Neo-Durkheimian?" ''Durkheimian Studies/Etudes durkheimiennes'' 11 (2005): 49–66. * "R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the invention of mainstream sociology in Paris," in ''Concepts and the social order: Robert K. Merton and the future of sociology'' edited by Yehuda Elkana, András Szi-guetti and Gyorgy Lissauer. Budapest-New York: CEU University Press, 2011.

References

External links

Central European University: Academic Profile of Jean-Louis Fabiani

ResearchGate Profile of Jean-Louis Fabiani
1951 births People from Algiers Living people École Normale Supérieure alumni School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences alumni Sociologists of science Sociologists of art Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Academic staff of Central European University Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Fernand Braudel Fellows Network scientists {{France-academic-bio-stub