Luc Foisneau

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Luc Foisneau (* 1963 in Blois , France ) is a French philosopher specializing in the history of modern and contemporary political philosophy. Foisneau is currently Directeur de recherche at the French national research institute CNRS in Paris.

biography

Foisneau worked at the University of Tours , the University of Caen (Center de philosophie politique et juridique, 1993–1995) and at the CNRS (Center d'histoire de la philosophie modern, 1995–2003) before moving to Oxford University , where he continued his research in the Department of Politics and International Relations and at the Maison Francaise (2003–2006). In addition, he worked as a lecturer in political philosophy at Sciences Po Paris between 1996 and 2003 .

Research priorities

Foisneau dedicated his doctoral thesis to the theological dimension of the power theory according to Hobbes , an aspect that has hitherto been neglected. He also underlines the importance of the knowledge of the absolute power of God by a philosopher who is often accused of atheism, as well as the connection between this recognition of the omnipotence of God and the main concepts of the moral and political philosophy of the author of Leviathan. In 2001 he received the prize of the Association of Professors and Teachers of Science Po Paris for the publication of this doctoral thesis.

For almost 15 years, Foisneau has dealt with two sides of modern political thought, the legal theory of sovereignty and reason of state. He is currently interested in social contract theories within the framework of John Rawls' theory of justice . His current deliberations concern the way in which the idea of ​​justice is profoundly changing modern political thought.

Between 2001 and 2014, Foisneau directed work on an encyclopedia on 17th century French philosophers, to which 167 authors contributed. A first version in English appeared in 2008 - "The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers"; an updated and expanded version will be published in French in 2015: "Dictionnaire des philosophes français du 17e siècle: acteurs et réseaux du savoir."

Publications

Books

  • Hobbes et la toute-puissance de Dieu, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2000, 422 pages (Prize of the Association of Professors and Teachers of Science Po Paris) - ISBN 2-13-050956-8 .
  • Governo e Soberiana: O pensamento politico moderno de Maquiavel a Rousseau, Porto Alegre, Linus Editores, 2009, 200 pages. ISBN 978-85-60063-08-6 .
  • Hobbes. La vie inquiète, Paris, Gallimard, 2016, 624 pages.

Works published under his direction

  • Politique, droit et théologie chez Bodin, Grotius et Hobbes, Paris, Kimé, 1997, 314 pages. ISBN 2-84174-096-X .
  • La découverte du principe de raison. Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2001, 204 pages.
  • L'efficacia della volontà nel XVI e XVII secolo, in collaboration with PF Adorno, Rome, Edizioni di storia et letteratura, 2002, 208 pages. ISBN 88-8498-060-7 .
  • Leviathan After 350 Years, in collaboration with T. Sorell, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2004, 314 pages. ISBN 0-19-926461-9 .
  • New critical perspectives on Leviathan upon the 350th anniversary of its publication / Nuove prospettive critiche sul Leviatano di Hobbes nel 350 ° anniversario di pubblicazione, in collaboration with G. Wright, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2004, 374 pages. ISBN 88-464-5561-4 .
  • Kant and Hobbes. De la violence à la politique, in collaboration with D. Thouard, Paris, Vrin, 2005, 252 pages. ISBN 2-7116-1736-X .
  • Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, New York / London, Thoemmes Continuum, 2 vol., 2008, 2 vol., 1314 pages. ISBN 978-0-82641-861-6 .
  • Spheres of Global Justice: Volume 1. Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy. Political Participation, Minorities and Migrations, with Jean-Christophe Merle, Christian Hiebaum et Juan Carlos Velasco, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013, 450 pages. ISBN 978-94-007-5997-8 .
  • Dictionnaire des philosophes français du 17e siècle: acteurs et réseaux du savoir, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015, 2 vol., 2150 pages. ISBN 978-2-8124-1721-4 .
  • as well as many other book chapters and articles

Translations

  • Thomas Hobbes, Les Questions Concernant la liberté, la nécessité et le hasard, introduction, comments, glossary and index by L. Foisneau; translated into French by L. Foisneau and Fl. Perronin, Paris, Vrin, 1999, 456 pages. ISBN 2-7116-2124-3 .
  • John Rawls, Justice et critique, foreword and translation into French by L. Foisneau et V. Munoz-Dardé, Paris, Éditions de l'EHESS, 2014, 90 pages. ISBN 978-2-7132-2411-9 .

Books for children

  • Pourquoi aimes-tu tes amis?, Drawings by A. Parlange, Paris, Gallimard Jeunesse, Giboulées / Chouette penser! Series, 2012, p. 80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L. Foisneau, "Sovereignty and Reason of state: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes", in HA Lloyd (ed.), The Reception of Bodin, Dordrecht, Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2013, pp. 323–342.
  2. ^ John Rawls, Justice et critique, foreword and translation into French by L. Foisneau et V. Munoz-Dardé, Paris, Éditions de l'EHESS, 2014, 90 pages
  3. ↑ The starting point for this consideration was his participation as the person responsible for the French group in the European network “Applied Global Justice” (2002–2006), which led to the joint publication “Spheres of global justice”.
  4. ↑ «La violence in la République. On the subject of the Commonwealth by Acquisition Selon Hobbes ”, Cercles, 2004/11, p. 5-14.
  5. ^ "Leviathan's Theory of Justice", in L. Foisneau and T. Sorell (Eds.), Leviathan After 350 Years, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2004, pp. 105-122
  6. ^ "Beyond the Air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Omnipotence of God", in L. Foisneau and G. Wright (eds.), New critical perspectives on Leviathan upon the 350th anniversary of its publication, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2004 , Pp. 33-49.
  7. ↑ "Omnipotence, Necessity and Sovereignty: Hobbes and the Absolute and Ordinary Powers of God and King", in P. Springborg (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 271-290 .
  8. ^ "Personal Identity and Human Mortality: Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz", in S. Hutton and P. Schuurman (eds.), Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy, Dordrecht, Springer, 2008, pp. 89-105 .
  9. ^ "Sovereignty and Reason of State: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes", in HA Lloyd (ed.), The Reception of Bodin, Dordrecht, Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2013, pp. 323–342.
  10. ^ «What is“ political ”about minority rights? », In J.-Ch. Merle, L. Foisneau, Ch. Hiebaum and JC Velasco (Eds.), Spheres of Global Justice: Volume 1: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy. Political Participation, Minorities and Migrations, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013, pp. 143–154.
  11. ^ "The superstition or the radical evil of modern society in Pierre Bayle and Thomas Hobbes", in O. Asbach (ed.), Europe and modernity in the long 18th century, Europa and Moderne series, Vol. 2, Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover, 2014, pp. 147–166.
personal data
SURNAME Foisneau, Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Blois , France