Gérard Raulet

Gérard Raulet (9 August 1949) is a French philosopher, Germanist, and translator, specializing primarily in the thought of Herbert Marcuse and Ernst Bloch.

Gérard Raulet
Raulet in 2018.
Born (1949-08-09) 9 August 1949
Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine
Alma materSaint-Cloud École Normale Superieure
RegionWestern Philosophy
InstitutionsParis-Sorbonne University

Biography

Raulet studied at Saint-Cloud École Normale Superieure (graduated in 1969), qualified German teacher (1973), Doctor of Philosophy (1981) and State Doctor of Humanities (1985). He had held different offices at the Paris-Sorbonne University from 1975 to 1987 before becoming professor at the university of University of Rennes 2 in 1987. He then taught at the university of Paris-XII before rejoining the ENS-LSH, followed by the one from Saint-Cloud. From 1981 to 1999, he also oversaw the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme "Research Group on the Culture of Weimar".[1]

A prolific author, Raulet has devoted several works to German philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, Max Scheler, Karl Marx. He is also the author of publications on the culture of Weimar and German political philosophy. He is the translator of the article by Jürgen Habermas called "The Enlightenment, an unfinished project" in response to the postmodernist criticism, on which Raulet himself worked. His latest work focuses on philosophical anthropology and the history of German philosophy after 1945.

Bibliography

Selected Articles in English

  • "What Good is Schopenhauer? Remarks on Horkheimer's Pessimism." Telos, no. 42 (1979): 98-106. doi: 10.3817/1279042098
  • "The Agony of Marxism and the Victory of the Left." Telos, no. 55 (1983): 163–178. doi: 10.3817/0383055163
  • "Marxism and the post-modern condition." Telos, no. 67 (1986): 147–162. doi: 10.3817/0386067147
  • "The new utopia: communication technologies." Telos, no. 87 (1991): 39–58. doi: 10.3817/0391087039
  • "Legitimacy and globalization." Philosophy & Social Criticism 37, no. 3 (2011): 313–323. doi: 10.1177/0191453710389445

Books in English

  • Critical Cosmology: On Nations and Globalization: a Philosophical Essay. Lexington books, 2005.

Notes
  1. "Gérard Raulet Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 24 February 2016.


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