Jean Salem

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Jean Salem (born November 16, 1952 in Algiers , Algeria , † January 14, 2018 in Rueil-Malmaison , France ) was a French philosopher .

Life

Jean Salem was the younger son of the journalist and communist Henri Alleg (Salem) and his wife Gilberte Serfaty. He grew up in Algiers until 1965 when his father had to emigrate to France. Salem first studied art history and archeology and made his first licentiate in 1979 and 1981 in history. In 1982 he received a Diplôme d'études approfondies for political science and in 1999 one for Littérature et civilization françaises. In 1988 he received his doctorate in philosophy and his habilitation in 1994. Since 2000 he has been a professor at the University of Paris.

Salem taught philosophy at the Sorbonne University Paris I and was director of the “Center d'Histoire des Systèmes de Pensée Moderne”. His main research interests were the philosophy of atoms and the concept of pleasure. He initiated a seminar on the history of materialism based on Democritus . With Isabelle Garo and Jean-Numa Ducange, he conducted the seminar Marx au XXIe siècle: l'esprit et la lettre in 2012/2013 .

Salem received the 2001 Prix ​​Bouctot from the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Lucrèce et l'éthique , Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, Paris 1990
  • Tel un dieu parmi les hommes: L'éthique d'Epicure , Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, Paris 1994
  • La légende de Démocrite , Éditions Kimé, 1996
  • Démocrite: grains de poussières dans un rayon de soleil , Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, Paris 1996
  • L'atomisme antique: Démocrite, Epicure, Lucrèce , 1997
  • Démocrite, Epicure, Lucrèce: la vérité du minuscule , Encre marine, Paris 1998
  • Cinq variations sur la sagesse, le plaisir et la mort , Encre marine, Paris 1999
  • Philosophy de Maupassant , Éditions Ellipses, Paris 2000
  • Lucrèce et l'éthique , Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, Paris 2000
  • Tel un dieu parmi les hommes: L'éthique d'Epicure , Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, Paris 2002
  • Giorgo Vasari ou l'art de parvenir , Éditions Kimé, Paris 2002
  • Une lecture frivole des écritures: L'Essence du christianisme de Ludwig Feuerbach , Encre marine, Paris 2003
  • Une Introduction a la Lecture de l'Eneide , Cariscript, Paris 2005
  • Le bonheur ou l'art d'être heureux par gros temps , Éditions Bordas, Paris 2006
  • Lénine et la révolution , Encre marine, Paris 2006
  • Cinq variations sur la sagesse, le plaisir et la mort , Éditions Michalon, Paris 2007
  • Figures de Sieyès , Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 2008
  • Spinoza au XIXe siècle , Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 2008
  • Rideau de fer sur le boul'mich: Formatage et désinformation dans le monde libre , Éditions Delga, Paris 2009
  • Elections, piège à cons?: Que reste-t-il de la démocratie? , Flammarion, Paris 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mort de Jean Salem, spécialiste du matérialisme antique et homme de combat , in: Liberation , January 14, 2018
  2. ^ Biographie de Gilberte Serfaty, épouse Salem (Henri Alleg) , at Alger republicain, accessed on August 8, 2013
  3. Raphaël Enthoven Materie - Jean Salem is a guest of Raphaël Enthoven in "Philosophy" ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at: ARTE , June 10, 2013, accessed on August 8, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  4. Marx au XXIe siècle ( Memento of the original dated February 24, 2011) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , homepage @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marxau21.fr