Anne Dufourmantelle (20 March 1964 – 21 July 2017) was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst.
Education and career
Dufourmantelle was educated at
Brown University and at
Paris-Sorbonne University
Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...
, where she earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1994.
She practised
psychoanalysis
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and was a professor at the
European Graduate School
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History
It was founded in 1994 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland by the Swiss scientist, artist, and therapist, P ...
and a contributor to the French daily newspaper ''
Libération''.
Her philosophical work focused on risk taking, which she argued was essential, saying that "absolute security - like 'zero risk' - is a fantasy"
[ and that " al danger must be faced in order to survive". Her book ''Éloge du risque'' or ''Praise of Risk'' was published in 2011.][ Dufourmantelle was also a professor of psychoanalysis at ]The European Graduate School
The European Graduate School (EGS) is a private graduate school that operates in two locations: Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta.
History
It was founded in 1994 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland by the Swiss scientist, artist, and therapist, Pa ...
.
Death
She died on July 21, 2017, at Pampelonne beach in Ramatuelle near the city of Saint-Tropez, while trying to rescue two children caught in the Mediterranean when the water became dangerously turbulent. The children were rescued by lifeguards and survived, but Dufourmantelle could not be resuscitated.[
]
Honours
Dufourmantelle won the Prix Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne from the Académie française in 1998.
Works
* ''De l'hospitalité'', with Jacques Derrida, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1997
* ''La Vocation prophétique de la philosophie'', Éditions du Cerf
''Éditions du Cerf'' (French: "Editions of the Deer") is a French publishing house specializing in religious books. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the Dominican Order.
The name is a reference to Psalm 42 (41):
As the hart panteth ...
, 1998
* ''La Sauvagerie maternelle'', Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 2001, édition poche 2016
* ''Le Livre de Jonas'', with Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Bayard
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, 2001
* ''Parcours : entretiens avec Anne Dufourmantelle'', with Miguel Benasayag, Paris, Amazon Media, 2001
* ''Une question d'enfant'', Paris, Bayard, 2002
* ''Blind Date : sexe et philosophie'', Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 2003
* ''Du retour : abécédaire biopolitique'', A.Pandolfi, 2003
* ''Negri on Negri : in conversation'', Taylor & Francis, 2004
* ''Procès Dutroux : penser l'émotion'', Paris, ministère de la Communauté française, 2004
* ''American Philo'', with Avital Ronell
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, Paris, éditions Stock, 2006
* ''La Femme et le Sacrifice : d'Antigone à la femme d'à côté'', Paris, Denoël, 2007
* ''Fighting theory'', with Avital Ronell, Université de l'Illinois Press, 2010
* ''Éloge du risque'', Paris, Payot
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, 2011
* ''Dieu, l'amour et la psychanalyse'', with Jean-Pierre Winter, Paris, Bayard Jeunesse, 2011
* ''Intelligence du rêve'', Paris, Payot, 2012
* ''En cas d'amour : psychopathologie de la vie amoureuse'', Paris, Rivages, 2012 ;
* ''Puissance de la douceur'', Paris, Payot, 2013
* ''Se trouver'', with Laure Leter, Paris, Jean-Claude Lattès Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
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, 2014
References
1964 births
2017 deaths
French women philosophers
French psychoanalysts
Deaths by drowning in France
21st-century French writers
21st-century French women writers
Writers from Paris
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