École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Originally part of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) as its VI Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales, the EHESS gained autonomy as an independent higher education institution on January 23, 1975. The creation of a dedicated branch for social science research within the EPHE was supported by several initiatives of the Rockefeller Foundation dating back to the 1920s. Soon after its creation (1947), the VI Section, later EHESS, became one of the most influential shapers of contemporary historiography, area ...

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Cornelius Castoriadis (March 11, 1922-December 26, 1997) was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) and his family moved soon after to Athens. After earning degrees in Political Science, Economics and Law from the University of Athens, he moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1945. He had been an active Trotskyist in Athens but broke with the Trotskyists in Paris in 1948 and joined Claude Lefort and others in founding the group and journal "Socialisme ou Barbarie" (1949-1966), which included Jean-François Lyota ...

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Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930-January 23, 2002) was a French sociologist whose work ranged widely from philosophy to anthropology. In his obituary, The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom said he "was, for many, the leading intellectual of present-day France... a thinker in the same rank as Foucault, Barthes and Lacan". His works have been translated in two dozen languages and have impacted the whole gamut of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Several of his books are considered classics of in sociolo ...

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He was born in Denguin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) in 1930, where his father was the postman. From 1962 to his death he was married to Marie-Claire Brizard. Bourdieu studied philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure. After getting his agrégation, he worked as a teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, and while serving in the French army, he undertook ethnographic research, laying the groundwork for his sociological reputation. Bourdieu held since 1964 a position as Director of Studies at the ...

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Wallerstein began as an expert of post-colonial African affairs, which his publications were almost exclusively devoted to until the early 1970s, when he began to distinguish himself as a historian and theorist of the global capitalist economy on a macroscopic level. His early criticism of global capitalism and championship of "anti-systemic movements" have recently made him a grey eminence with the anti-globalization movement within and without the scientific communit ...

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Jacques Derrida - Early works. Derrida's earliest work was in phenomenology. His earliest academic manuscript for a degree was a work on Edmund Husserl and "genesis", submitted in 1954 and much later published as The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Phenomenology. In 1962 he published a translation of Husserl's Foundations of Geometry, for which he wrote a lengthy introdu ...

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Jacques Derrida - Early works. Derrida's earliest work was in phenomenology. His earliest academic manuscript for a degree was a work on Edmund Husserl and "genesis", submitted in 1954 and much later published as The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Phenomenology. In 1962 he published a translation of Husserl's Foundations of Geometry, for which he wrote a lengthy introdu ...

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Derrida is criticised heavily for his influences and associations. In particular, the involvement of Martin Heidegger (see above) and Paul de Man (see below) with National Socialism and its Belgian collaborators is frequently argued to be a series of morally reprehensible acts for which Derrida either fails to account or in fact apologize. Such criticisms are generally aligned with a broader charge that deconstruction is a form of nihilism that attempts to undermine ethical and intellectual norms vital to the academy, if not Western civiliza ...

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Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Life, Jacques Derrida - Work, Jacques Derrida - Early works, Jacques Derrida - 1967-1972, Jacques Derrida - Of Spirit, Jacques Derrida - Other Works, Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida - Aporia, Jacques Derrida - Criticism of Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Politics, Jacques Derrida - Derrida and his peers, Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida - Derrida's Translators, Jacques Derrida - Controversies and mourning, Jacques Derrida - Online texts, Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts, Jacques Derrida - Interviews, Jacques Derrida - Bibliography, Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works on Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works by others referenced above

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Derrida was not known to have participated in any conventional electoral political party until 1995, when he joined a committee in support of Lionel Jospin's (by then the stepfather of Daniel, his son with Sylviane Agacinski) Socialist candidacy, although he expressed misgivings about such organizations going back to Communist organizational efforts while he was a student at ENS. In the last presidential election he refused to vote in the run-off between Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jacques Chirac, citing a lack of acceptable choices. He was initia ...

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Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts. Excerpt from "Of Grammatology" Excerpt from "Archive Fever" "Speech and writing according to Hegel" Excerpt from "Spectres of Marx" Excerpt from the famous speech "Différance" "Letter to a Japanese Friend" "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" Excerpt from "Signature, Event, Context" Jacques Derrida - Interviews. "Excuse me, but I never said exactly so" Interview, in French, with Robert Maggiori

Bourdieu shared Weber's view that society, contrary to traditional Marxism, cannot be analyzed simply in terms of economic classes and ideologies. Much of his work concerns the independent role of educational and cultural factors. Instead of analyzing societies in terms of classes, Bourdieu uses the concept of field: a social arena in which people manoeuvre and struggle in pursuit of desirable resources. A field is a system of social positions, structured internally in terms of power relationships. Different fiel ...

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Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Bourdieu - Biography, Pierre Bourdieu - Bourdieu's critical conflict theory, Pierre Bourdieu - Bourdieu's work

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"In the sixteenth century, Europe was like a bucking bronco. The attempt of some groups to establish a world-economy based on a particular division of labor, to create national states in the core areas as politico-economic guarantors of this system, and to get the workers to pay not only the profits but the costs of maintaining the system was not easy. It was to Europe's credit that it was done, since without the thrust of the sixteenth century the modern world would not have been born and, for all its cruelties, it is bet ...

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Immanuel Wallerstein, Immanuel Wallerstein - Training and academic career, Immanuel Wallerstein - Theory, Immanuel Wallerstein - Quotations, Immanuel Wallerstein - Works

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The most complete bibliography available online can be found at this site. The compilation, copyrighted by Peter Krapp, is still in progress, but all major works are listed, sorted by title or by year of publication. Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida. (see Jacques Derrida Bibliography) “Speech and Phenomena” and other essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs, trans. David B. Allison (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973). Of Grammatology, trans. Gayat ...

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Main Article: Deconstruction The 1966 paper, in addition to establishing Derrida's international reputation, marked the starting point of what is both Derrida's most significant and least-understood concept, deconstruction. Much of the mystique and confusion surrounding deconstruction stems from Derrida's insistence on not allowing the concept to be immune to its own critiques. That is, Derrida took pains to make deconstruction as impossible to es ...

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In addition to de Man and Lyotard, his approximate contemporaries, many of whom were philosophic allies and friends, included Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Sarah Kofman, Hélène Cixous, Bernard Stiegler, and Geoffrey Bennington. Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man. Main article: Paul de Man Perhaps the most known friendship of Derrida's intellectual life was his friendship with Paul de Man. This frien ...

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Derrida grew up in El-Biar, Algeria. As a young student, he was expelled from his lycée by Algerian administrators zealous to implement antisemitic quotas set by the Vichy government. He skipped school for a year rather than attend the Jewish lycée formed by displaced teachers and students. Following this, his family moved to France in 1949 to advance his secondary education, remaining until 1962 when they moved to Nice. Beginning in 1952, Derrida was a student at the elite École Normale Superieure (ENS), where he studied under Mic ...

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Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Life, Jacques Derrida - Work, Jacques Derrida - Early works, Jacques Derrida - 1967-1972, Jacques Derrida - Of Spirit, Jacques Derrida - Other Works, Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida - Aporia, Jacques Derrida - Criticism of Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Politics, Jacques Derrida - Derrida and his peers, Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida - Derrida's Translators, Jacques Derrida - Controversies and mourning, Jacques Derrida - Online texts, Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts, Jacques Derrida - Interviews, Jacques Derrida - Bibliography, Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works on Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works by others referenced above

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Derrida is criticised heavily for his influences and associations. In particular, the involvement of Martin Heidegger (see above) and Paul de Man (see below) with National Socialism and its Belgian collaborators is frequently argued to be a series of morally reprehensible acts for which Derrida either fails to account or in fact apologises. Such criticisms are generally aligned with a broader charge that deconstruction is a form of nihilism that attempts to undermine ethical and intellectual norms vital to the academy, if not Western ...

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Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Life, Jacques Derrida - Work, Jacques Derrida - Early works, Jacques Derrida - 1967-1972, Jacques Derrida - On Spirit, Jacques Derrida - Other Works, Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida - Aporia, Jacques Derrida - Taking Derrida Seriously, Jacques Derrida - Criticism of Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Politics, Jacques Derrida - Derrida and his peers, Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida - Derrida's Translators, Jacques Derrida - Controversies and mourning, Jacques Derrida - Online texts, Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts, Jacques Derrida - Interviews, Jacques Derrida - Bibliography, Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works on Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works by others referenced above

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Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Life, Jacques Derrida - Work, Jacques Derrida - Early works, Jacques Derrida - 1967-1972, Jacques Derrida - On Spirit, Jacques Derrida - Other Works, Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida - Aporia, Jacques Derrida - Taking Derrida Seriously, Jacques Derrida - Criticism of Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Politics, Jacques Derrida - Derrida and his peers, Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida - Derrida's Translators, Jacques Derrida - Controversies and mourning, Jacques Derrida - Online texts, Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts, Jacques Derrida - Interviews, Jacques Derrida - Bibliography, Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works on Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works by others referenced above

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Main Article: Deconstruction The 1966 paper, in addition to establishing Derrida's international reputation, marked the starting point of what is both Derrida's most significant and least-understood concept, deconstruction. Much of the mystique and confusion surrounding deconstruction stems from Derrida's insistence on not allowing the concept to be immune to its own critiques. That is, Derrida took pains to make deconstruction as impossible to es ...

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Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Life, Jacques Derrida - Work, Jacques Derrida - Early works, Jacques Derrida - 1967-1972, Jacques Derrida - On Spirit, Jacques Derrida - Other Works, Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida - Aporia, Jacques Derrida - Taking Derrida Seriously, Jacques Derrida - Criticism of Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Politics, Jacques Derrida - Derrida and his peers, Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida - Derrida's Translators, Jacques Derrida - Controversies and mourning, Jacques Derrida - Online texts, Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts, Jacques Derrida - Interviews, Jacques Derrida - Bibliography, Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works on Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works by others referenced above

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In addition to de Man and Lyotard, his approximate contemporaries, many of whom were philosophic allies and friends, included Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Sarah Kofman, Hélène Cixous, Bernard Stiegler, and Geoffrey Bennington. Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man. Main article: Paul de Man Perhaps the most known friendship of Derrida's intellectual life was his friendship with Paul de Man. This frien ...

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Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Life, Jacques Derrida - Work, Jacques Derrida - Early works, Jacques Derrida - 1967-1972, Jacques Derrida - On Spirit, Jacques Derrida - Other Works, Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida - Aporia, Jacques Derrida - Taking Derrida Seriously, Jacques Derrida - Criticism of Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Politics, Jacques Derrida - Derrida and his peers, Jacques Derrida - Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida - Derrida's Translators, Jacques Derrida - Controversies and mourning, Jacques Derrida - Online texts, Jacques Derrida - Essays excerpts, Jacques Derrida - Interviews, Jacques Derrida - Bibliography, Jacques Derrida - Selected works by Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works on Derrida, Jacques Derrida - Works by others referenced above

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