Gérard Granel (; 1930 – 10 November 2000) was a French

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 ...

and

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Life and work

Born in

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, Granel attended the

lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ...

and the courses of Michel Alexandre,

Jean Hyppolite Jean Hyppolite (; 8 January 1907 – 26 October 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of G. W. F. Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works in ...

and, later, of

Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser was a long-time member an ...

and

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. He taught in

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, and

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, before being appointed professor of philosophy at the Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail, a position he held from 1972 until his death. Granel translated numerous philosophical texts into French, including work by

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

Edmund Husserl Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of histori ...

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, and

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Witt ...

. Granel was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( ; ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

and

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 founder of the political and c ...

. Granel died in Cornebarrieu.

Works

In French

*''Le Sens du temps et de la perception chez E. Husserl'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1968). *''L’Équivoque ontologique de la pensée kantienne'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1970; second edition : Mauvezin: T.E.R, 2009). *''Traditionis traditio'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1972). *''De l’Université'' (Mauvezin: Éditions TER, 1982). *''Cartesiana'' (with Bernard Bouttes) (Mauvezin: T.E.R, 1983). *''Écrits logiques et politiques'' (Paris: Galilée, 1990). *''Études'' (Paris: Galilée, 1995). *''Apolis'' (Mauvezin: T.E.R, 2009).

In English

*"Who Comes after the Subject?" in Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor &

(eds.), ''Who Comes after the Subject?'' (New York & London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 148–56. *"Untameable singularity (some remarks on Reiner Schürmann's ">Reiner_Schürmann.html" ;"title="Reiner Schürmann">Reiner Schürmann's ''Broken Hegemonies'')," ''Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal'' 19/2–20/1 (1997), pp. 215–28.

In German

*''Die totale Produktion. Technik, Kapital und die Logik der Unendlichkeit'', hrsg. u. eingeleitet v. Erich Hörl, aus dem Französischen von Laura Strack (Wien & Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2020).

References and further reading

English

;Books *Alexandru Polgár, ''The Difference between Heidegger's Concept of Market and That of Granel''. See: http://www.gerardgranel.com/txt_pdf/Alexandru_Polgar_Difference_Int+chap%20I.pdf. Published in Romanian as ''Diferența dintre conceptul de producție al lui Heidegger și cel al lui Granel'' (Cluj: IDEA Design + Print, 2013). See: http://www.idea.ro/editura/ro/diferena-dintre-conceptul-de-pia-al-lui-heidegger-i-cel-al-lui-granel-d131.html. ;Articles *Christopher Fynsk, "But Suppose We Were To Take 'The Rectoral Address' Seriously…On Gérard Granel's ''De l'université''," ''Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal'' 14/2 (1991), pp. 335–362. *Christopher Fynsk, "A Politics of Thought: Gérard Granel's ''De l'université''," in ''The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004). *Douglas Steward, "Gérard Granel's Other University Now". See: http://www.gerardgranel.com/txt_pdf/about_steward.pdf.

French

;Books *

, Élisabeth Rigal (eds.), ''Granel - l'éclat, le combat, l'ouvert'' (Paris: Belin, 2001). *''Gérard Granel ou la rigoeur du dénuement'' (coll.) (Mauvezin: Éditions Trans-Europ-Repress, 2012). *''L'Archi-politique de Gérard Granel'' (coll.) (Mauvezin: Éditions Trans-Europ-Repress, 2013).

German

;Articles *Erich Hörl, "Die Problematik Granels", in Gérard Granel, ''Die totale Produktion. Technik, Kapital und die Logik der Unendlichkeit'', hrsg. u. eingeleitet v. Erich Hörl, aus dem Französischen v. Laura Strack (Wien & Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2020), 7-37.

External links

Gérard Granel website
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