Marc Crépon (born 30 March 1962) is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has also translated works by philosophers such as

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, Prose poetry, prose poet, cultural critic, Philology, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philo ...

Franz Rosenzweig Franz Rosenzweig (, ; 25 December 1886 – 10 December 1929) was a German theologian, philosopher, and translator. Early life and education Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany, to an affluent, minimally observant Jewish family. His fa ...

and Leibniz. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure and director of research at the Archives Husserl, National Center for Scientific Research.

Early life

He was born in Decize, Nievre in 1962. After high school, Crépon completed a preparatory course at Lycee Condorcet in

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. He then attended the Ecole Normale Superieure and passed the

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in 1986, a French civil service exam for positions in public education. The topic of his dissertation (written in French) was ''The problem of human diversity: survey on the characterization of the people and the constitution of geographies of spirit from Leibniz to Hegel'' (1995).

Career

Crépon's first academic position was teaching philosophy at

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. Shortly after this, he moved to

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for a period and credits living and working in the USSR with developing many of his attitudes and pedagogical methods. At this time, he also developed an interest in the relationship between political and linguistic communities, which he would go on to research in greater detail. He has traveled and lectured at American universities, including

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and

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. Crépon also taught classes while in residence at

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in Chicago in 2006 and in 2008. Marc Crépon was the co-founder (along with

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 ...

) of the association ''Ars Industrialis''.

Publications

Marc Crépon has written 16 books in French, the most notable of which are listed below. * ''Le malin génie des langues : Nietzsche, Heidegger, Rosenzweig''. Title trans: The Evil Genius of Language: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Rosenzweig. Paris : Vrin, 2000. . OCLC 876603414. * ''Les promesses du langage : Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Heidegger''. Title trans: The promises of language: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Heidegger. Paris : J. Vrin, 2001. . OCLC 876603462. * ''De la democratie participative : fondements et limites'' (with

). Title trans: Participatory Democracy: Foundations and limits.

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: Mille et une nuits, 007 . OCLC 876604004. * ''Derrida, la tradition de la philosophie'' (with Frédéric Worms). Title trans: Derrida, the tradition of the philosophy. Paris : Galilée, impr. 2008. . OCLC 494480595. * ''The thought of death and the memory of war'' (with Michael Maurice Loriaux). Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. . OCLC 840465545. * ''The death penalty''. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014-. . OCLC 865494962.

References

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