Daniel Defert
Daniel Defert (born September 10, 1937 ) is a French sociologist and AIDS activist.
Life
After finishing school, Defert studied sociology at the University of Clermont-Ferrand . After finishing his studies, Defert got a job as a professor at the University of Paris VIII . In 1984 he founded AIDES , the first organization in France to aim to raise public awareness of the disease, and was its first president until 1991.
The reason for his activities was the death of his partner Michel Foucault on June 25, 1984. In 2014 his memoirs Une vie politique appeared in the form of an interview book, a German partial translation appeared in 2015 under the title A political life . He is one of the editors of Foucault's works.
Web links
- AIDES website
- Tania Martini, Enrico Hippolito (interview): Daniel Defert on Michel Foucault: “He always fought with the police” . In: TAZ, October 13, 2015
- Literature by and about Daniel Defert in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Une vie politique. Entretiens avec Philippe Artières and Éric Favereau. Seuil, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-02-105508-5
- ↑ A Political Life. Translated by Ronald Voullié, Merve Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-88396-370-9
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| SURNAME | Defert, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sociologist and AIDS activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1937 |