Renan Larue
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Renan Larue is a French writer, literary scholar and historian of
vegetarianism Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism may ...
. He is the author of several books on vegetarianism or veganism, including ''Le végétarisme et ses ennemis'' (2015), a history of vegetarianism from Pythagoras until the modern day, and ''La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale'' (2020). In 2016 he offered the first course in
vegan studies Vegan studies or vegan theory is the study of veganism, within the humanities and social sciences, as an identity and ideology, and the exploration of its depiction in literature, the arts, popular culture, and the media. In a narrower use of th ...
in the United States at the University of California, Santa Barbara.


Early life and education

Born in the Côtes-d'Armor,Cugnier, Stéphane (11 April 2016)
"Un Breton enseigne le végétarisme en Californie"
''Ouest-France''.
Larue studied French literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University, graduating in 2000 with a BA. He went on to obtain three master's degrees: in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris in 2002, in philosophy from the University of Paris I in 2003, and in classical literature from the University of Strasbourg in 2006. In 2007, he received an
Agrégation de lettres modernes In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...
. Larue was awarded a
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in French literature in 2011 by the
University of Picardy Jules Verne The University of Picardy Jules Verne (French: ''Université de Picardie Jules Verne''; UPJV) is a public university located in the former Picardy region of France (now part of Hauts-de-France). It consists of several campuses located in the t ...
. His PhD dissertation focused on the history of vegetarianism in the West and formed the basis of his first book, ''Le végétarisme et ses ennemis''.


Career

Larue is an assistant professor of French literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2016 he offered a course in vegan studies, the first course of its kind in the United States. He currently runs the Vegan Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.


Writing

In ''Le végétarisme et ses ennemis'' (2015), Larue reviews the history of vegetarianism in the West, focusing on the historical figures who defended it, including Pythagoras, Porphyry and Plutarch. He describes the attitudes of the major monotheistic religions towards the ideas conveyed by vegetarians, with particular emphasis on the hostility of the Catholic Church. He then turns to the Age of Enlightenment, where Voltaire played a leading role in the defense of vegetarianism, alongside Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nicolas de Condorcet, Maupertuis, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Morelly. The book ends in the 20th century, with the story of the birth of veganism through the Vegan Society co-founded by Donald Watson,
Elsie Shrigley Elsie Beatrice Shrigley (née Salling; 30 October 1899 – 13 May 1978), also known as Sally Shrigley, was an English vegan activist and a co-founder, along with Donald Watson, of The Vegan Society in 1944. She is credited, by some, as coining t ...
and others. In ''Le véganisme'' (2017), co-authored with Valéry Giroux, Larue, himself vegan, defends veganism as a philosophy and way of life, understood as a social and political movement based on a commitment to, as far as practically possible, avoid the subjugation, mistreatment and killing of sentient beings. In ''Le Végétarisme des Lumières'' (2019), he examines the medical and philosophical debates around vegetarianism that took place in 18th-century France. He also authored the preface to ''La révolution antispéciste'' ("The antispeciesist revolution"), a selection of twelve texts from the journal ''
Cahiers antispécistes The ''Cahiers antispécistes'' ("Antispeciesist notebooks"), originally called ''Cahiers antispécistes lyonnais'' ("Lyon antispeciesist notebooks"), was a French-language journal published from 1991 to 2019, with the aim of disseminating antispe ...
'' ("Antispeciesist notebooks").


Awards

Larue received the Best PhD Dissertation Award from the University of Picardy Jules Verne in 2011. In 2016, the
Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
awarded him the Prix La Bruyère silver medal for his book ''Le végétarisme et ses ennemis''.


Selected works

* (2014). * (2015). * (2017). * (2019). * (2020). Larue, Renan. ''La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale'' 'Vegan thoughts: 50 perspectives on the condition of animals'' Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.


References

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