Jean-Paul Droit / Roger-Pol Droit (born 1949 )

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Roger-Pol Droit (born 1949 ) is a French philosopher, journalist , researcher at CNRS (Centre Jean Pépin, History of doctrines of antiquity), teacher and writer . Columnist World books , Les Echos, Le Point, Wrenches. He is the author of thirty books of philosophy and history of ideas, some of which have met with success with a wide audience, especially 101 daily experiences Philosophy (Essay Prize Frances Télévisions) and have been translated into more than thirty languages. He has advised the Director General of UNESCO (1994-1999) and member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee for Life Sciences (2007-2013).

Roger-Pol Droit did his secondary education at the Lycée Jacques-Decour (Paris), preparatory classes at Louis-le-Grand High School (Paris) before becoming a student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud (1969-1973) , Associate of Philosophy (1972), Doctor of Philosophy (Paris-IV, 1998), authorized to direct research ( EHESS , 2008).

He was a professor in the schools of Berck (1977-1979) and Honfleur (1978-1989), Director of the Program International College of Philosophy (1986-1989), head of research at the CNRS since 1989, first at the Centre Research and Documentation on Hegel and Marx (Poitiers, 1991-1997) and the Centre Jean Pépin (Villejuif, UPR 76 History of Doctrines of antiquity, 1997-2014).

He was director of seminars to Sciences Po from 2003 to 2013.

Research

Roger-Pol Droit's research work focuses on representations of others in Western thought, which led him to study in particular the approach of Indian doctrines, including the discovery of Buddhism by Europeans in The forgetfulness of India. A philosophical amnesia (PUF, 1989) and The Cult of Nothingness. Philosophers and the Buddha (Seuil, 1997), with a view particularly marked by the work of Michel Foucault. The extensions of this work then took him to direct two volumes of an anthology of Indian philosophical texts, Chinese, Tibetan, Hebrew, Arabic and Persian which have collaborated François Jullien, Raphael Draï and Christian Jambet (Philosophies elsewhere Hermann, 2010) and to study the historical evolution of representations of the "barbarians" from Greek antiquity to the present day (Genealogy barbarians, Odile Jacob, 2007).


Articles and columns

Roger-Pol Droit published his first articles in the newspaper Le Monde in 1972, at age 23, while still a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He then managed the testing pages World of Books, held a monthly column and weekly devoted to books of ideas. Its current column, since 2012, entitled Free Style, appears weekly in The World of Books. He has published in this newspaper over a thousand articles and great interviews with most contemporary thinkers (Levinas, Levi -Strauss, Foucault etc.).

Since 2003, he regularly published in Le Point interviews and records.

Since 2010, he published in the daily Les Echos chronic analysis of current events. Currently titled The eye of the philosopher, this column appears every Friday.

Since 2011, he published a column in the bimonthly magazine Keys.

Publications

If I had more than an hour to live, Odile Jacob, 2014
My personal philosophy from A to Z, Seuil, 2013
Small experiments philosophy with friends, Plon, 2012
Human, Flammarion, 2012, Monique Atlan.
Live today with Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, and all others, Odile Jacob, 2012
Thinkers, philosophers 20 that made ​​the twentieth century, Flammarion, 2011
The Company philosophers, Odile Jacob, 2010
Dare to talk philosophy with your kids, Bayard, 2010
The Silence of the Buddha and other Indian issues, Hermann Editions , coll. " Hermann Philosophy ", 2010
Heroes of wisdom, Plon , 2009
Ethics explained to everyone, Seuil, 2009
Philosophies elsewhere (under the direction of Roger-Pol Droit), Volume 1: The Indian thoughts, Chinese and Tibetan, Volume 2: The Hebrew thoughts, Arab, Persian and Egyptian Hermann Editions , coll. " Hermann Philosophy ", 2009
The West explained to everyone, Seuil, 2008
A brief history of philosophy, Flammarion, 2008
Where are the donkeys in Mali?, Seuil, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-02-098567-3 )
"Living ever? The philosopher and geneticist," by Roger-Pol Droit and Axel Kahn, Bayard Press, Paris, 2008 ( ISBN 2227477466 ).
A nightmare so light, Flammarion, 2007.
Genealogy barbarians, Odile Jacob, 2007.
Your life will be perfect, Odile Jacob, 2005 ( ISBN 2-7381-1574-8 ) publications
The Forgetting of India - A philosophical amnesia, Seuil, 2004
Philosophy explained to my daughter, Seuil, 2004
101 experiences everyday philosophy, Odile Jacob, Col.Poche, 2003 ( ISBN 2-7381-1218-8 )
Latest news things, Odile Jacob, 2003 ( ISBN 2-7381-1333-8 )
The contemporary company, Odile Jacob, 2002
Religions explained to my daughter, Seuil, 2000
The Cult of nothingness: the philosophers and the Buddha, Seuil, 1997

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Jean-Paul Droit, French philosopher, and Le Monde journalist, recently wrote in his book "The Forgetfulness of India, that:

"The Greeks loved so much Indian philosophy that Demetrios Galianos had even translated the Bhagavad-Gita"