Clément Rosset
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| Born |
October 12, 1939 Barneville-Carteret, France |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Postmodern philosophy |
Main interests | Metaphysics, Ethics |
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Clément Rosset (French: [ʁɔsɛ]; born 1939) is a French philosopher and writer. He's the nephew of the painter Jean Dries.
After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, he took the agrégation of philosophy in 1965. For the next two years, Rosset taught French at the Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, then settled in Nice, France, where he taught philosophy until his retirement in the late 1990s. Presently he is living in Paris.
The bulk of his work consists in some 30 short books, all of them brief studies or essays on various topics. Most popular is probably Le réel et son double, that deals in an original manner with the inevitably illusionistic character of representations. Arthur Schopenhauer, on whom Rosset has published a few studies, remains a constant reference throughout his works. The fight with depression has introduced a more personal strain in the later writings of Clément Rosset.
Bibliography
In English:
- Joyful Cruelty: Toward a Philosophy of the Real (Free Association, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9796121-1-4)
- The Real and its Double (The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8574203-4-3)
In French:
- 1960, La Philosophie tragique;
- 1962, Le monde et ses remèdes;
- 1965, Lettre sur les chimpanzés : plaidoyer pour une humanité totale; Essai sur Teilhard de Chardin;
- 1967, Schopenhauer : philosophe de l'absurde;
- 1969, L'Esthétique de Schopenhauer;
- 1971, La logique du pire: éléments pour une philosophie tragique;
- 1971, L'anti-nature : éléments pour une philosophie tragique;
- 1976(84), Le réél et son double : essai sur l'illusion;
- 1978, Le réél : traite de l'idiotie;
- 1979(85), L'objet singulier;
- 1983, La force majeure;
- 1985, Le philosophe et les sortilèges;
- 1988, Le Principe de cruauté;
- 1991, En ce temps-là : notes sur Louis Althusser;
- 1991, Principes de la sagesse et de la folie;
- 1992, Matière d'art : hommages;
- 1995, Le choix des mots;
- 1997, Le démon de la tautologie;
- 1999, Route de nuit : Episodes cliniques;
- 1999, Loin de moi : étude sur l'identité;
- 2000, Le réél, l'imaginaire et l'illusoire;
- 2001, Le régime des passions et autres textes;
- 2001(12), Propos sur le cinéma;
- 2001, Écrits sur Schopenhauer;
- 2003, "Franchise postale" (with Michel Polac);
- 2004, Impressions fugitives : l'ombre, le reflet, l'écho;
- 2006, Fantasmagories;
- 2008, L'Ecole du réel;
- 2008, La nuit de mai;
- 2008, Une passion homicide... et autres textes;
- 2008, Ecrits satiriques. 1. Précis de philosophie moderne (new edition, previously under the name of Roboald Marcas, 1968);
- 2009, Le monde perdu;
- 2010, Tropiques. Cinq conférences mexicaines;
- 2011, Les Matinées savantes (new edition, previously Les Matinées structuralistes under the name of Roger Crémant, 1969);
- 2012, Récit d'un noyé;
- 2012, L'invisible.
External links
- Atelier Clément Rosset: a French, comprehensive blog on the philosopher
- Official website with full references
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