2015
Cairn
Alain Vergnioux, « The Philosophy of François Châtelet », Le Télémaque, ID : 10670/1.17f278...
François Châtelet (1925-1985) taught, throughout his career, in high schools and in pre-university classes and he always maintained that the practice of philosophy was inseparable from what was taught. Based on his books, prefaces, articles and interviews, this article seeks to formulate the radical critique directed by Châtelet against the institutional way in which it was taught in high school and in university, and the reduction of philosophy to its history or to a commentary upon this history. There then follows an examination of the conditions according to which new practices of philosophy should be envisaged, in the broader context of a re-definition of culture as a whole.