Jean-Claude Milner

Jean-Claude Milner (* 1941 in Paris ) is a French linguist , scientific theorist and philosopher .

Life

Milner studied at the École normal supérieure and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was influenced early on by the theoretical theoretical considerations of Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan and belonged to the circle of Lacan students around Jacques-Alain Miller (* 1944). Milner taught general linguistics at the Université Paris VII until his retirement. He was chairman of the Paris Collège international de philosophie .

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With his first publications Milner was one of the earliest French linguists who received the linguistics of Noam Chomsky in France, whose Aspects of a Theory of Syntax Milner translated. However, he protested against the cognitive-biological foundations that Chomsky wanted to give in later publications of his language theory. Although he sticks to the formal framework that Chomsky's Generative Grammar provided in its various stages of development, he thus developed into a critic of Chomsky linguistics, the problems of which he presented in his book Introduction à une science du langage (Seuil, 1989). This work is an epistemological study of the epistemology of linguistics, to which there is little comparable of its kind.

While Chomsky's linguistics provided the formal description methods for Milner's linguistics and the essential epistemological approaches originate from Alexandre Koyré , the central, if not always explicitly mentioned, theoretical reference point is the work of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan , whom he wrote in L'œuvre claire. Lacan, la science et la philosophie (Seuil, 1995) portrayed him as a clear rational thinker - and not as a Dadaist "post-structuralist".

Milner also published works on literature ( Détections fictives , Seuil, 1985, Dire le vers , together with François Regnault, Seuil, 1987; Mallarmé au tombeau , Verdier, 1999) and intervened in the public discussion of European anti-Semitism ( Les penchants criminels de l'Europe démocratique , Verdier, 2003) and about the situation of culture in France, which in its view is the most hostile country in the world to culture and intelligence ( Existe-t-il une vie intellectuelle en France?, Verdier, 2002). In his book Archeologie d'un échec, 1950-1993 (Seuil, 1993), he described the history of the left in France - to which he can be attributed - and the failure of its illusions.

more publishments

• De la syntaxe à l'interprétation . Paris: Seuil, 1978. (= Travaux linguistiques.)
• Les noms indistincts . Paris: Seuil, 1978. (= Connexions du Champs freudien.)
  • Dt .: The indistinguishable names . Vienna / Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85132-729-8 .
• Ordres et raisons de langue . Paris: Seuil, 1982. (= Travaux linguistiques.) [Collection of articles]
• L'amour de la langue . Paris: Seuil, 1983. (= Connexions du Champ freudien.)
• L'Oeuvre claire. Lacan, la science, la philosophy . Paris: Seuil, 1998.
  • German: The bright plant. Lacan, science, philosophy. Vienna / Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85132-728-1 .
• Le Périple structural. Figures et paradigmes . Paris: Seuil, 2002. (= La couleur des idées.)
• Controversy. Dialogue sur la politique et la philosophie de notre temps, animé par Philippe Petit . With Alain Badiou. Paris: Seuil, 2012.
  • German: controversy. Dialogue on the politics and philosophy of our time . With Alain Badiou, translated by Thomas Wäckerle. Vienna Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85132-715-1 .

Some of Milner's books have also been translated into Spanish, Italian and English.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean-Claude Milner in the catalog of the German National Library