Jean-Pierre Faye is a French

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 philosopher and writer

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 of fiction and prose poetry

Prose poetry

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.

Biography

Faye was a founding member of the avant-garde literary review Tel Quel

Tel Quel

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, and later of Change. He received the Prix Renaudot

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 for his 1964 novel L'Écluse (Éditions Seuil). He is a regular contributor to Gilles Deleuze

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's literary journal Chimère.

With Jacques Derrida

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 and others, he authored the "Blue Report" which led to the Collège international de philosophie

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, an open university

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, in 1983.

His essays, including Théorie du récit and Langages Totalitaires, remain influential studies of the use and abuse of language by totalitarian states.

Select bibliography

• Balthus : les dessins. Adam Biro, 1998. ISBN 978-2-87660-231-1
• Concepts number 7: Jean-Pierre Faye et la Philosophie. Sils Maria, 2005. ISBN 978-2-930242-44-6
• Introduction aux langages totalitaires : Théorie et Transformations du récit. Revised edition Hermann, 2003. ISBN 978-2-7056-6450-3
• Journal du voyage absolu : Jeux et enjeux du Grand Danger, accompagné des Transformants féminins. Hermann, 2003. ISBN 978-2-7056-6469-5
• (with Anne-Marie de la Vilaine) La déraison antisémite et son langage. Actes Sud, 1993. ISBN 978-2-7427-0094-3
• La frontière: Sarajevo en archipel. Actes Sud, 1999. ISBN 978-2-7427-0601-3
• Langages totalitaires. Reprinted Hermann, 2004. ISBN 978-2-7056-6480-0
• La philosophie desormais. Colin, 2004. ISBN 978-2-200-26550-2
• Le langage meurtrier. Hermann, 1996. ISBN 978-2-7056-6256-1
• Le livre du vrai. Evénement violence. L'Harmattan, 1998. ISBN 978-2-7384-7148-2
• Le Siècle des idéologies. Agora, 2002. ISBN 978-2-266-10141-7
• Nietzsche et Salomé. Ecrivains, 2000. ISBN 978-2-246-58591-6
• (with Jacqueline Russ) Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? Colin, 1997. ISBN 978-2-200-01548-0

External links

Review of works by Faye by Pierre Favre in Revue française de science politique, vol. 26, number 3 (1976), pp. 600–610. H. et h. ou la métaphysique du boulanger in Chimère vol 8. (summer 1990)