Martine Chifflot
French philosopher, sanskritist, poet and novelist
Martine Chifflot (born 27 March 1948) is a French philosopher, Sanskritist, novelist, playwright, theatre director and poet. An honorary professor at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, she holds a doctorate in philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne University and the habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.
Academic career
Chifflot completed her doctoral thesis, Le thème de l'esse est percipi dans la pensée de Berkeley et de Prakāśānanda, under the supervision of Michel Hulin at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1991. She obtained the habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in philosophy from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in 2012.
She taught ethics and philosophy of education at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, the ESPE de Lyon and the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. She holds the title of honorary professor (professeure agrégée honoraire) at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.
Philosophical work
Chifflot's 1991 doctoral thesis, supervised by Michel Hulin at Paris-Sorbonne University, examined the parallel between George Berkeley's principle of esse est percipi and the Advaita Vedānta doctrine of dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi-vāda as formulated by Prakāśānanda. Drawing on this research, she published in 2005 the first French translation of Prakāśānanda's Vedāntasiddhāntamuktāvalī directly from the Sanskrit, under the title Le collier de perles des doctrines du Vedānta.
The translation received a dedicated review in the Bulletin d'Études Indiennes and was noted in the Revue de l'histoire des religions. Michel Hulin, in a 2021 study published in the Bibliothèque Philosophique de Louvain, designated Chifflot's translation as the standard French-language edition of the text, drawing directly from it in translating key passages.
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