Marcel Hénaff

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Marcel Hénaff (born July 21, 1942 in Hauteluce ; † June 11, 2018 in San Diego , California ) was a French philosopher and ethnologist , since 1988 professor of French literature , philosophy and anthropology at the University of California, San Diego .

Life

Hénaff studied at the University of Copenhagen and at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris, then ethnology at the University of Abidjan . He completed a degree in philosophy in Paris with the state examination ( Agrégation de Philosophie ).

He emerged scientifically through his ethnological research in the tradition of Marcel Mauss . Like Mauss, he localized the source of the social in the elementary exchange of gift and counter-gift. The Romanist Wolfram Nitsch presented Hénaff's thoughts on the future shape of cities (“La ville qui vient”) in the context of contemporary urbanism theories.

Honors

Publications (selection)

Essays
  • The world of commerce, the world of gifts. Truth and recognition . In: WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung , Vol. 7 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 81–90, ISSN  1860-2177 .
  • Temps des hommes, temps du monde. Michel Serres et les bifurcations du Grand Récit . In: François L'Yvonnet u. a .: Michel Serres . L'Herne, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-85197-155-5 .
  • Lévi-Strauss and the question of symbolism . In: Michael Kauppert u. a. (Ed.): Effects of wild thinking. On the structural anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29492-5 , pp. 248-274.
  • Of stones, angels, and humans. Michel Serres and the global city . In: Niran Abbas (Ed.): Mapping Michel Serres . University Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 2005, ISBN 0-472-11438-7 , pp. 170-189
Monographs
  • Sade . L'invention du corpse libertin . PUF, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-13-035576-5 ; again in 2000 (also published in Russian, Spanish and English)
    • Excerpt: Say everything, or The Encyclopedia of Excess , in: Bernhard Dieckmann, François Pescatore, eds. And translators, reading on de Sade. Stroemfeld, Basel 1981 ISBN 3878771630 pp. 71–98
  • La Ville qui vient . L'Herne, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-85197-685-7 .
  • Lévi-Strauss . Le Passeur de sens (Tempus Collection; vol. 231). Perrin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-262-02771-1 .
  • The price of truth. Gift, money, philosophy (“Le prix de vérité”). Acc .: Eva Moldenhauer, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-58518-4 .
  • The gift of the philosophers. Rethinking reciprocity . Acc .: Eva Moldenhauer, transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2385-7 .
  • The city in the making . Acc .: Eva Moldenhauer, adocs, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-943253-28-3 .

literature

  • Robin Celikates : On Hénaff's analysis of the structural change of gift and recognition . In: WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung , Vol. 7 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 91-98, ISSN  1860-2177 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La mort de Marcel Hénaff, philosophe et anthropologue , accessed on June 19, 2018
  2. ↑ Wolfram Nitsch: Terrain vague On the poetics of urban space in French modernism, in: Merkur. German magazine for European thinking. Issue 758, volume 66, 2012, pp. 638–644
  3. ^ Sade, the invention of the libertine body. University of Minnesota Press , 1999
personal data
SURNAME Hénaff, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and ethnologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hauteluce
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2018
Place of death San Diego , California