- Gérard Granel
Gérard Granel (1930 –
November 10 ,2000 ) was a French philosopher and translator.Life and work
Born in
Paris , Granel attended thelycée Louis-le-Grand and the courses of ,Jean Hyppolite and, later, ofLouis Althusser andJean Beaufret . He taught inBordeaux ,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 , andLudwig Wittgenstein .Granel was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including
Jacques Derrida ,Jean-Luc Nancy andBernard Stiegler .Primary literature
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).
*"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).Literature in English
*"Who Comes after the Subject?" in Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor &
Jean-Luc Nancy (eds.), "Who Comes after the Subject?" (New York & London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 148–56.
*"Untameable singularity (some remarks on [ Reiner Schürmann's ] "Broken Hegemonies")," "Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal" 19/2–20/1 (1997), pp. 215–28.Secondary literature
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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).External links
* [http://www.gerardgranel.com Gérard Granel website]
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