Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.
Life and career
Faye was born in
Paris. He was member of the editing committee of the avant-garde literary review
Tel Quel,
["Faye a été plusieurs années durant membre de notre comité de rédaction, exactement du no. 14 (été 1963) au no. 31 (automne 1967)". cf. Tel Quel Nr. 43 (Herbst 1970) S. 89] and later of
Change. He received the
Prix Renaudot for his 1964 novel
L'Écluse (Éditions Seuil). He is a regular contributor to
Gilles Deleuze's literary journal
Chimère. With
Jacques Derrida and others, he authored the "Blue Report" (), which led to the Collège international de philosophie, an
open university, in 1983. He soon turned against deconstructionism and
postmodernism, as he reflected in
Langages totalitaires 2: la raison narrative (1995). His essays, including
Théorie du récit and
Langages Totalitaires, remain influential studies of the use and abuse of language by
totalitarian states and ideologies. Faye is credited with creating the
horseshoe theory.
Select bibliography
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Dictionnaire politique portatif en cinq mots: démagogie, terreur, tolérance, répression, violence. Essai de philosophie politique. Gallimard, 1982.
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Balthus : les dessins. Adam Biro, 1998. .
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Concepts number 7: Jean-Pierre Faye et la Philosophie. Sils Maria, 2005. .
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Introduction aux langages totalitaires : Théorie et Transformations du récit. Revised edition Hermann, 2003. .
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Journal du voyage absolu : Jeux et enjeux du Grand Danger, accompagné des Transformants féminins. Hermann, 2003. .
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(with Anne-Marie de la Vilaine) La déraison antisémite et son langage. Actes Sud, 1993. .
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La frontière: Sarajevo en archipel. Actes Sud, 1999. .
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Langages totalitaires. Reprinted Hermann, 2004. .
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La philosophie desormais. Colin, 2004. .
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Le langage meurtrier. Hermann, 1996. .
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Le livre du vrai. Evénement violence. L'Harmattan, 1998. .
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Le Siècle des idéologies. Agora, 2002. .
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Nietzsche et Salomé. Ecrivains, 2000. .
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(with Jacqueline Russ) Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? Colin, 1997. .
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