Anne Dufourmantelle

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Anne Dufourmantelle (born March 20, 1964 in Paris ; † July 21, 2017 in Pampelonne , municipality of Ramatuelle ) was a French psychoanalyst , philosopher and author .

Life

Anne Dufourmantelle, daughter of an Anglo-Swiss father and a French mother, spent a few years as a child in Spain and later in Central America. Here Spanish became her favorite language. These stages of her youth aroused her interest in exile literature and thinkers who cross other borders. After graduating from high school with top marks, she decided to study medicine and philosophy in Paris. In 1993 she did her doctorate at the Sorbonne . Her dissertation, entitled La vocation prophétique de la philosophie (The prophetic calling of philosophy) dealt with Søren Kierkegaard , Friedrich Nietzsche , Emmanuel Levinas and Jan Patočka . A few years later her work was published by the Éditions du Cerf and she received the Académie Française Prize for Philosophy.

During her studies at the Sorbonne, she spent a year at Brown University in the USA . There she translated Nelson Goodman's Language of Art and wrote an essay entitled The Structure of Appearance , on the basis of which she attended a five-year seminar on aesthetics and after returning to France at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette “Thinking Architecture” held. She then worked as a publisher for Calmann-Levy, where she was responsible for literature in the field of philosophy and supervised more than 50 books. Then she took on the same role at Stock (also at Hachette ).

After her Ph.D. she decided to turn to psychoanalysis instead of teaching philosophy. She has published books such as La sauvagerie maternelle (“Maternal violence”) and La femme et le Sacrifice (“Women and victims”).

Anne Dufourmantelle said of herself: "I have always been equally focused on two areas, philosophy and psychoanalysis, with a very passionate connection to literature being my main source of inspiration for work and life."

Dufourmantelle died of complications from a cardiac arrest that she suffered while trying to save two children from drowning on the beach in Pampelonne . Lifeguards rescued the children shortly afterwards. According to Le Monde , one of the two children was the ten-year-old son of a friend of Dufourmantelle's.

Works (selection)

  • La vocation prophétique de la philosophy. 1993, dissertation
  • with Jacques Derrida : De l'hospitalité. 1997, ISBN 2702127959
  • La sauvagerie maternelle 2001, ISBN 2702132464
  • Une question d'enfant. 2002, ISBN 2227011033
  • Antonio Negri : Il ritorno: quasi un'autobiografia: conversazione con Anne Dufourmantelle. 2002, ISBN 8817872423
  • Blind Date: Sexe et Philosophie. 2003, ISBN 2702134025
  • with Avital Ronell : American philo: entretiens avec Anne Dufourmantelle. 2006, ISBN 2234058406
  • La Femme et le Sacrifice: D'Antigone à la femme d'à côté. 2007, ISBN 2207254127
  • En cas d'amour: Psychopathology de la vie amoureuse. Payot, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-228-90381-7 .
  • Éloge du risque. Payot, Paris 2011, ISBN 2-228-90642-5 ; German translation: Praise of the risk. A plea for the unknown. With a foreword by Joseph Hanimann. Translated from the French by Nicola Denis. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03732-1 .
  • with Jean-Pierre Winter: Dieu, l'amour et la psychanalyse. 2011, ISBN 2227472324
  • Intelligence du rêve , 2012
  • Puissance de la douceur , 2013
  • Défense du secret , 2015
  • L'envers du feu , 2015

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Elisabeth Roudinesco : L'auteure Anne Dufourmantelle était d'une “humanité exceptionnelle” . Le Monde , July 24, 2017, accessed July 24, 2017 (French).
  2. ^ A b Roisin O'Connor: Anne Dufourmantelle dead: French philosopher who wrote book on risk-taking dies rescuing children . The Independent , July 24, 2017, accessed July 25, 2017.
  3. ^ Kyle Swenson: A famous French thinker's philosophy was based on taking risks. And that's how she tragically died . WashingtonPost.com , July 25, 2017, accessed July 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Dufourmantelle, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French psychoanalyst, philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2017
Place of death Ramatuelle