Tente de restituer la pluralité des figures de l'intellectuel depuis l'affaire Dreyfus pour montrer leur passage d'une éthique de la conviction à celle de l'intervention sur la scène publique. L'histoire intellectuelle permet d'interroger alors la manière dont se fabriquent les idées par un va-et-vient constant entre le passé et les questions actuelles posées au passé.
François Dosse is a French historian and philosopher who specializes in intellectual history. After devoting his doctoral thesis (1983) to the Annales School, Dosse turned his research interests to structuralism, the philosopher Paul Ricœur (his biography,Paul Ricœur. Les sens d'une vie (published in 1997), has become the standard authority) and the historian Michel de Certeau. François Dosse is one of the founders of the journal EspacesTemps. In 2007, he published Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, biographie croisée (English trans. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives [2010]), where he advocated the rehabilitation of Guattari in an intellectual history that had made place only for Deleuze. François Dosse is currently Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres at Créteil.
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