Gérard Raulet
French philosopher
Gérard Raulet (born 9 August 1949) is a French philosopher, Germanist, and translator, specializing primarily in the thought of Herbert Marcuse and Ernst Bloch. He is a professor emeritus of German History and Thought at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
Early life and education
Raulet was born 9 August 1949 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. Raulet studied at Saint-Cloud École Normale Superieure, graduating in 1969. Raulet then qualified as a German instructor in 1973, earned his PhD in 1981, and doctorat d'État in 1985.
Career
A prolific author, Raulet has devoted several works to German philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, Max Scheler, Karl Marx. He is also the author of publications on the culture of Weimar and German political philosophy. He is the translator of the article by Jürgen Habermas called "The Enlightenment, an unfinished project" in response to the postmodernist criticism, on which Raulet himself worked.
Between 1975 and 1987, Raulet was first an instructor and then assistant professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University before joining the university of University of Rennes 2 as a professor in 1987. He then taught at the university of Paris-XII before joining the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 1997.
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