Didier Eribon

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Didier Eribon (born July 10, 1953 in Reims ) is a French journalist, author , sociologist and philosopher . In the German-speaking countries, his bestseller Return to Reims came out in 2016 , one of his main works that had already appeared in France in 2009.

His academic career is mainly linked to the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Dartmouth College in the United States .

Live and act

Eribon was born in Reims in 1953, where he spent his childhood. He grew up in a typical French working-class family: his mother worked as a cleaning lady, the father as a factory worker. The family voted for the Communist Party . In his “autobiographical analysis” Return to Reims from 2009 (German 2016) he remembers Reims “as a city of insult” and his existence there as a working class child who discovered his homosexuality and was therefore reviled.

He studied philosophy first in Reims, then in Paris. He wanted to become a teacher at the Lycée , but failed and did not complete his doctoral thesis. Unlike in the German-speaking countries at the time, you can work as a university lecturer in France without a habilitation thesis. Eribon began writing about philosophy and literature as a journalist. From Liberation he moved to Le Nouvel Observateur magazine . He turned increasingly to writing about the history of gay life and gay subjectivity and saw his job as a journalist increasingly as a livelihood that allowed him to write books. He later got a job as a professor at the University of Amiens. He was also visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for several years .

Eribon has written numerous books, including volumes of conversations and interviews with Georges Dumézil , Claude Lévi-Strauss and Ernst Gombrich . In 1989 he published a highly regarded biography on Michel Foucault, which has since appeared in numerous editions and translations . Daniel Defert , Foucault's partner, judged this biography: "For my taste it was [...] too much the story of Foucault as an academic, so I was a little disappointed because it did not show Foucault what he was." Eribon said "the fantastic and passionate aspects of “Foucault's life”.

The French edition of his autobiographical "non-fictional novel" Return to Reims about his childhood in a predominantly communist working-class neighborhood in Reims was published in France in 2009 and 2016 in German in a translation by Tobias Haberkorn. The book is selling very well in German-speaking countries. It was widely received and appeared in several editions. The playwright Falk Richter has traitors in his play . The last few days called a scene Returning to Reims in which the figure Daniel reads a longer passage on pages 139 and 140 from Eribon's book. A stage version of Return to Reims was premiered at the Schaubühne Berlin under the direction of Thomas Ostermeier on September 24, 2017.

Eribon places the text partially in the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu , with whom he had a long friendship. He said in September 2016: “I have always been interested in the stories of social classes and social differences in society and the reproduction of social classes. For example through the school system. "

In Section III.2, Eribon describes how his mother, in particular, had gradually turned away from the communist party, later also from the communist trade union CGT, and turned to the right-wing populist Front National .

Eribon sums up:

“By opting for left-wing parties, you were voting against your direct racist reflex, yes, against a part of yourself, so strong were these racist feelings. (...) Outside of the closest family circle, one felt obliged to withdraw racist remarks. (...) The "sense of community" shared by the "French" popular classes changed radically. The quality of being French became his central element and, as such, replaced being a worker or being leftist. "

The text is regarded as a "kind of key work for understanding the social present".

With society as a judgment. Classes, Identities, Paths, which came out in French in 2013 and in German in October 2017, follows on from his return to Reims by continuing to study the concept of class. Among other things, he deals with Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault as sociologists, with Annie Ernaux , Simone de Beauvoir , Jean Paul Sartre , Assia Djebar , Marcel Proust and Paul Nizan as writers. He again takes up the concept of shame and describes his connection to Bourdieu, particularly with reference to his work The Subtle Differences , as a process of “self-analysis” to overcome “social shame”. Foucault's work Madness and Society influenced him equally when it comes to coping with "sexual shame": in both cases with the aim of changing the self and his environment. While he received Bourdieu mostly positively, but also critically, his frequent reference to Annie Ernaux is consistently appreciative.

Even before returning to Reims and the follow-up volume Society as Judgment , Échapper à la psychanalyse was published in 2005 , a critical examination of psychoanalysis , which was published in Vienna at the end of 2017 under the title Der Psychoanalysis Escaped in a translation by Brita Pohl. It is the expanded version of a lecture that Eribon gave in September 2003 at the University of Berkeley as part of a two-day colloquium a. a. held with Judith Butler . Using the texts of Roland Barthes ' Fragments of a Language of Love (French 1977) and Michel Foucault's Sexuality and Truth , Vol. 1: The Will to Know (French: 1976), he developed his sharply formulated theses against Freudomarxism as a result of the 1968 Movement and emphasizes the importance of "love" and "sexuality" in different contexts. The queer theory is influenced too much by the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan . He understands his little writing as a manifesto against the normativity of psychoanalysis.

In an interview with the title Der Zeitgeist ist Faschistoid from March 2017 with the publication organ of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , he refers to the different historical developments in France and Germany since 2009.

According to his own statement on his homepage, in the presidential election 2017 he voted in the first ballot on April 23 for the leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon . A few days earlier, in an essay for the FAZ, he had described Mélenchon as a “left-wing populist” and emphasized that the various forms of rule had to be countered with heterogeneous forms of resistance. Left thinking could be renewed in the spirit of '68. In the second and decisive ballot, he spoke out in favor of an election boycott due to the attitude of the two remaining candidates to social justice . With regard to the runoff election, he made a firm statement to the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “If you vote for Macron , you vote for Le Pen .” The phenomenon of former leftists now voting for the right can be found across Europe. Schröder and Blair had adapted and advanced neoliberalism and thus “ betrayed the principles of socialism and social democracy ”.

At the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair he also spoke out against Macron's “neoliberalism” and demonstratively did not take part in the opening event. During the book fair, of which France was the partner country, he appeared in public several times: For example, on October 11th in conversation with Nils Minkmar ; also on October 12th with Annie Ernaux about autobiographical elements in the books of the two (with German translation). The Literary Colloquium Berlin hosted a reading with Eribon and Édouard Louis on October 16 .

While most of the reviews of Eribon's works in Germany in 2016/17 were positive, there were also critical voices, especially about his political statements.

“Eribon's proletarian parents were at home in the communist milieu for decades, ... and suddenly they became part of the right-wing populist national front. And his parents were not isolated cases, but the whole left has eroded. Because these structurally conservative voters went where their protest had a greater effect, and because by professing to be French they gained a sense of nationality. Therefore there is a certain rationality in this apparently irrational movement from outside left to outside right. Which also means that at least part of the ideology is not so important, it rather shows that they are alienated with democracy. They don't feel cared enough, it scares them. "

- Joachim Gauck, 2019 :

In 2018, his 2016 work Principes d'une pensée critique was published under the title Basics of Critical Thinking .

Eribon writes regularly in the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur on philosophical and socially critical issues.

He lives in Paris. His partner is the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie .

Awards (selection)

  • 2008: Brudner Prize (returned May 19, 2011)

Works

Fonts

  • (with Georges Dumézil ): Entretiens avec Didier Eribon . Gallimard, Paris 1987. ISBN 2-07-032398-6 .
  • Michel Foucault (1926-1984) . Flammarion, Paris 1989. ISBN 2-08-064991-4 . 3rd, revised and expanded edition 2011. ISBN 978-2-08-121800-0 .
    • German: Michel Foucault. A biography , translated by Hans-Horst Henschen. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991. ISBN 3-518-40335-4 .
  • (with Ernst H. Gombrich ): Ce que l'image nous dit. Entretiens sur l'art et la science . Biro, Paris 1991. ISBN 2-87660-134-6 .
    • dt .: The art of making pictures speak. A conversation with Didier Eribon , translated by Joachim Kafka. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-608-93187-2 .
  • (with Claude Lévi-Strauss ): De près et de loin . Jacob, Paris 1988. ISBN 2-7381-0039-2 .
  • Faut-il brûler Dumézil? : Mythologie, science et politique , Flammarion, Paris 1992. ISBN 2-08-066709-2 .
  • Michel Foucault et ses contemporains . Fayard, Paris 1994. ISBN 2-213-59336-1 .
    • German: Michel Foucault and his contemporaries , translated by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Boer, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-924963-82-7 .
  • (as ed.): Les études gay et lesbiennes . Paris 1998. ISBN 2-85850-956-5 .
  • Reflections on the question gay . Fayard, Paris 1999. ISBN 2-213-60098-8 .
    • engl .: Insult and the Making of the Gay Self , translated by Michael Lucey. Duke University Press, Durham 2004. ISBN 978-0-8223-3371-5 .
    • German: Reflections on the gay question , from the French by Achim Russer and Bernd Schwibs. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-58740-9 .
  • Papiers d'identité. Interventions sur la question gay . Fayard, Paris 2000. ISBN 2-213-60576-9
  • Une morale du minoritaire. Variations on un thème de Jean Genet . Fayard, Paris 2001. ISBN 2-213-60918-7
  • Hérésies. Essais on the theory of sexuality . Fayard, Paris 2003. ISBN 2-213-61423-7 .
  • (as ed.): Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes . Larousse, Paris 2003. ISBN 2-03-505164-9 .
  • Sur cet instant fragile… Carnets, janvier-août 2004 . Fayard, Paris 2004. ISBN 2-213-62279-5 .
  • Echapper à la psychanalysis . Editions Léo Scheer, Paris 2005. ISBN 2-915280-93-2 .
    • German: Escape from psychoanalysis , translated by Brita Pohl. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85132-872-1
  • D'une révolution conservatrice et de ses effets sur la gauche française . Editions Léo Scheer, Paris 2007. ISBN 978-2-7561-0082-1 .
  • Return to Reims . Fayard, Paris 2009. ISBN 978-2-213-63834-8 .
  • De la subversion. Droit, norm et politique . Cartouche, Paris 2010. ISBN 978-2-915842-66-1 .
  • La société comme verdict. Classes, identités, trajectoires , Paris 2013.
    • German: Society as a judgment. Classes, identities, paths, translated by Tobias Haberkorn. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-07330-8 .
  • Theories of the Literature. Système du genre et verdicts sexuels . PUF, Paris 2015. ISBN 978-2-13-065100-0 .
    • German: theories of literature. Gender system and gender judgments , translated by Christian Leitner. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7092-0350-7 .
  • Principes d'une pensée critique . Fayard, Paris 2016 ISBN 978-2-213-70132-5 .
    • German: Fundamentals of critical thinking , translated by Oliver Precht. Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-85132-896-7 .

Interviews and articles

Play, feature

Reviews

Return to Reims

Society as a judgment

Web links

Commons : Didier Eribon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrico Ippolito: Working Class and Homosexuality: The Myth of the Revolution . In: Spiegel Online . June 30, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Return to Reims, Berlin 2016, p. 191.
  3. ^ Return to Reims, Berlin 2016, pp. 223–225.
  4. ^ Return to Reims, Berlin 2016, p. 227.
  5. ^ Return to Reims, Berlin 2016, p. 226.
  6. ↑ Tania Martini, Enrico Hippolito (interview): Daniel Defert on Michel Foucault: "He always fought with the police" . In: Taz online, October 13, 2015.
  7. ↑ Blurb and reviews on Perlentaucher online
  8. ↑ Didier Eribon in an interview with Felix Stephan: “You cannot believe that you are the people” . In: Die Zeit online, July 4, 2016.
  9. ↑ Falk Richter: I am Europe. FEAR and other plays. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-95749-122-0 pp. 238-239
  10. ↑ a b Return to Reims. In: schaubuehne.de. September 1, 2017, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ According to his own information, he met Bourdieu in 1979 and since then has seen him almost every day or has telephoned him. Society as a judgment. Classes, identities, paths. Berlin 2017, p. 43.
  12. ↑ Didier Eribon on the crisis of the left: “You are not the people”; Taz online, September 23, 2016, accessed September 25, 2016.
  13. ↑ Return to Reims, Berlin 2016, pp. 133–140.
  14. ^ Return to Reims, Berlin 2016, p. 135 u. P. 137.
  15. ↑ Blurb and reviews on Perlentaucher online.
  16. ^ Society as a judgment. Classes, identities, paths. Berlin 2017, p. 106f.
  17. ^ Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984
  18. ^ Fragments d'un discours amoureux. Seuil, Paris 1977
  19. ^ Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983
  20. ↑ Histoire de la sexualité. Vol. 1: La volonté de savoir . Gallimard, Paris 1976
  21. ↑ Publisher's note . Turia and Kant , Vienna 2017
  22. ↑ Angela Gutzeit: New Books by Didier Eribon. The gentle rebel . Deutschlandfunk, December 13, 2017.
  23. ↑ Charlotte Noblet (text), Anne-Charlotte Compan (photos): Interview with Didier Eribon: "The zeitgeist is fascistoid" . In: bpb: magazine 1/2017 [03/22/2017].
  24. ↑ Didier Eribon: France in the Election Year: A New Spirit of '68. In: FAZ online, April 18, 2017, p. 3
  25. ^ Dorothea Grass: Didier Eribon: "Whoever chooses Macron chooses Le Pen". Presidential election in France. Süddeutsche online, April 20, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Calendar of events .
  27. ^ "Society as Judgment" and "In the Heart of Violence." . Moderation: Patricia Klobusiczky , voice Mehmet Ateşçi.
  28. ↑ Hannah Lühmann: Didier Eribon. The overrated National Front explainer. Die Welt, November 1, 2017.
  29. ↑ It is not a good strategy to put everything that is apart from the political center immediately on the side of the enemies of democracy. NZZ , November 9, 2019
  30. ↑ Daniel Binswanger : "The rulers are afraid - and that is wonderful" , interview in: Republic of January 12, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2019.
  31. ^ Letter of May 19, 2011 to John Treat.
  32. ↑ Bernhard Schmid : Didier Eribons description of a conservative revolution in France. History of change . In: Jungle World , January 12, 2017; online and print.
  33. ↑ Excerpt from Suhrkamp .
  34. ↑ Excerpt from Suhrkamp .
  35. ↑ Interview in French, the short foreword also in German. As a text of 2 texts again in Didier Eribon: Retours sur “Retour à Reims”. Cartouche, Paris 2011 pp. 39–94. Out of stock. The focus of the interview is the concept of shame .
  36. ↑ Nina Hoss: “You can't duck wake up.” Interview with Peter Kümmel, Die Zeit online, April 19, 2917, updated May 11, 2017. Access after registration.
  37. ↑ Peter Kümmel: "Return to Reims": Aren't we all from Reims? Thomas Ostermeier stages Didier Eribon's much-discussed autobiography at the Manchester Theater Festival. In: Die Zeit online, July 12, 2017, accessed on November 22, 2017.
  38. ↑ Anke Dürr: "Return to Reims" with Nina Hoss. Father love, father hatred . In: Spiegel online, July 9, 2017, accessed November 22, 2017.
  39. ↑ "Return to Reims" with Nina Hoss. Theater criticism . In: Friday online, September 25, 2017.
  40. ^ Peter Laudenbach: return to Reims. Didier Eribon's "Return to Reims" will be staged in Berlin with Nina Hoss. In: Süddeutsche online, September 30, 2017, accessed on November 22, 2017.
  41. ^ Annette Stiekele: Hamburg. On the left's hatred of the working class . Nina Hoss shines in "Return to Reims" at the Lessingtage. In: Hamburger Abendblatt online, January 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Eribon, Didier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Reims , France