Gérard Granel
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Gérard Granel was a French
philosopher
and translator
.
, Granel attended the lycée Louis-le-Grand
and the courses of Michel Alexandre, Jean Hyppolite
and, later, of Louis Althusser
and Jean Beaufret
. He taught in Bordeaux
, Toulouse
, and Aix
, 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
, Edmund Husserl
, David Hume
, Giambattista Vico
, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
.
Granel was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida
, Jean-Luc Nancy
and Bernard Stiegler
.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and translator
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
.
Life and work
Born in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Granel attended the lycée Louis-le-Grand
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand is a public secondary school located in Paris, widely regarded as one of the most rigorous in France. Formerly known as the Collège de Clermont, it was named in king Louis XIV of France's honor after he visited the school and offered his patronage.It offers both a...
and the courses of Michel Alexandre, Jean Hyppolite
Jean Hyppolite
Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers....
and, later, of Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....
and Jean Beaufret
Jean Beaufret
Jean Beaufret was a French philosopher and Germanist tremendously influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger's work in France....
. He taught in Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
, Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, and Aix
Aix-en-Provence
Aix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...
, 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
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...
, Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...
, David Hume
David Hume
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
, Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
Giovanni Battista ' Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist....
, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...
.
Granel was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
, Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher.Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre , a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...
and Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne. In addition, he is Director of the , founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, , and founder in 2010 of the philosophy school,...
.
Literature 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).
Literature in English
- "Who Comes after the Subject?" in Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor & Jean-Luc NancyJean-Luc NancyJean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher.Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre , a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...
(eds.), Who Comes after the Subject? (New York & London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 148–56. - "Untameable singularity (some remarks on [ Reiner Schürmann'sReiner SchürmannFather Reiner Schürmann, O.P., Ph.D. was Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York....
] Broken Hegemonies)," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 19/2–20/1 (1997), pp. 215–28.
Secondary literature
- Christopher FynskChristopher FynskChristopher Fynsk is Head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen, Director of the Centre for Modern Thought and Professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is well known for his work relating the political and literary aspects of continental...
, "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).