François Dosse (; born 22 September 1950) is a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

who specializes in

intellectual history Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualization, conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of ...

Biography

After devoting his

doctoral thesis A thesis (: theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.International Standard ISO 7144: D ...

(1983) to the

Annales School The ''Annales'' school () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. It is named after its scholarly journal '' Annales. Histoire, S ...

, Dosse turned his research interests to

structuralism Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structural patterns t ...

, the philosopher

Paul Ricœur Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (; ; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such, his thought is within the same tradition as other major hermeneut ...

(his biography, ''Paul Ricœur. Les sens d'une vie'' (published in 1997), has become the standard authority) and the historian

Michel de Certeau Michel de Certeau (; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion. He was known ...

. François Dosse is one of the founders of the journal '' EspacesTemps''. In 2007, he published ''

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

Félix Guattari Pierre-Félix Guattari ( ; ; 30 March 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, Semiotics, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and created ecosophy ...

, biographie croisée'' (English trans. ''Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives'' 010, where he advocated the rehabilitation of Guattari in an intellectual history that had made place only for Deleuze. In 2011 he published a biography on the French historian Pierre Nora and in 2014 on the Greek-French philosopher

Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis (; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greeks in France, Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was ... granted full French citizenship in 1970." philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, au ...

. Dosse is Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres at

Créteil Créteil () is a Communes of France, commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne Departments of France, dep ...

.Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel
"Observations on an Emergent Specialization: Contemporary French Cultural History—Significance for Scholarship"
''Journal of Scholarly Publishing'' 41 (2010): 227

Publications

* ''L'Histoire en miettes. Des "Annales" à la "nouvelle histoire"'', Paris,

La Découverte LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smi ...

, 1987 (2nd edition : Presses Pocket, "Agora", 1997). * ''Histoire du structuralisme. Tome 1 : Le champ du signe'', Paris, La Découverte, 1991. nglish translation: "History of Structuralism; The Rising Sign 1945-1966"* ''Histoire du structuralisme. Tome 2 : Le chant du cygne'', Paris, La Découverte, 1992. nglish translation: "History of Structuralism; The Sign Sets 1967-Present"* ''L'Instant éclaté. Entretien avec Pierre Chaunu'', Paris, Aubier, 1994. * ''L'Empire du sens. L'humanisation des sciences humaines'', Paris, La Découverte, 1995. * ''

. Les sens d'une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 1997. * ''L'Histoire'', Paris, Armand Colin, 2000. * ''

. Le marcheur blessé'', Paris, La Découverte, 2002. * ''La Marche des idées. Histoire des intellectuels, histoire intellectuelle'', Paris, La Découverte, 2003. * ''Le Pari biographique. Écrire une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2005, 2011. * ''Paul Ricœur, Michel de Certeau. Entre le dire et le faire'', Paris, Cahiers de l'Herne, 2006. * ''Paul Ricœur et les sciences humaines'', Paris, La Découverte, 2007. * ''

, biographie croisée'', Paris, La Découverte, 2007. nglish translation: "Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives"* ''Historicités'', co-edited by Christian Delacroix and Patrick Garcia, Paris, La Découverte, 2009. * ''Renaissance de l'événement'', Paris, PUF, coll. « Le nœud gordien », 2010. * '' Pierre Nora. Homo Historicus'', Paris, Perrin, 2011. * '' Castoriadis. Une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2014. * ''Les hommes de l'ombre : Portraits d'éditeurs'', Paris, Perrin, 2014. * ''Le Philosophe et le Président'', Paris, Stock, 2017. * ''La saga des intellectuels français I: À l'épreuve de l'histoire (1944-1968)'', Paris, Gallimard, 2018. * ''La saga des intellectuels français II: L’avenir en miettes (1968-1989)'', Paris, Gallimard, 2018. * ''

Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (; 23 July 193029 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 1969. Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, but was als ...

. Une vie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2020. * ''Amitiés philosophiques'', éditions Odile Jacob, 2021. * ''Macron ou les illusions perdues - Les larmes de Paul Ricœur'', Le Passeur, 2022. * ''Les vérités du roman : Une histoire du temps présent'', éditions Le Cerf, 2023. * ''Vincennes. Heurs et malheurs de l'université de tous les possibles'', Paris, Payot, 2024.

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