Christian Delacampagne
Christian Delacampagne (3 December 1949 – 20 May 2007) was a French philosopher.
Biography
Christian Delacampagne was born in Dakar. He studied philosophy in Paris (École Normale Supérieure in 1969; agrégation in philosophy in 1972; doctorate in letters and humanities in 1982).
After working in various countries (high school philosophy teacher, journalist, director of a French Institute or Cultural Center in Barcelona, Madrid, Cairo, Tel Aviv and cultural attaché in Boston), he moved to the United States in 1998. He was professor of French Studies at Connecticut College, New London from 1998 to 2000, then at Tufts University, Medford from 2000 to 2002 and full professor (French literature and philosophy of the 20th century) in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, from 2001 to 2006 inclusive, before returning to France.
He has published some thirty books, including several essays on issues of political philosophy. Some of them have been translated into various languages.
Historian of ideas, he was a prolific and unclassifiable author. He assigned to philosophy the task of highlighting the mechanisms of domination and oppression throughout history. His research has focused in particular on racism, which he tries to distinguish from xenophobia, on the "clash of civilizations", which he opposed, and on art, especially painting and art brut, in which he took an early interest.
He is also the author of books written with artists and several hundred articles. Many of the latter have appeared in Le Monde, a newspaper to which he contributed regularly from 1973 to 2004. He has also contributed occasionally to various newspapers and magazines, mainly in France (Les Temps modernes, Critique, Cités, Études, Le Magazine littéraire, Le Nouvel Observateur), but also in Spain (El Viejo Topo, Quimera, El País, La Vanguardia, Cambio 16) and the United States (Commentary, Raw Vision, French Politics, Culture & Society, SubStance, MLN).
He died of cancer on May 20, 2007 in Paris. He was the husband of the photographer Ariane Delacampagne.
Works
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- Antipsychiatrie ou Les voies du sacré (1974; awarded the Lange Prize by the Académie française in 1975)
- Le racisme (1976; with Léon Poliakov & Patrick Girard)
- Figures de l'oppression (1977)
- Ladakh, avec Gérard Busquet (1977)
- En marge: l'Occident et ses autres (1978)
- La louve baroque (1979)
- Philosopher: les interrogations contemporaines: matériaux pour un enseignement (1980; editor with Robert Maggiori)
- Les aborigènes de l'Inde (1981; with Gérard Busquet)
- L'invention du racisme: Antiquité et Moyen Âge (1983)
- Madrid (1987; collaboration)
- L'aventure de la peinture moderne de Cézanne à nos jours (1988)
- Outsiders : fous, naïfs et voyants dans la peinture moderne (1880-1960) (1989)
- Immortelle Égypte (1990; illustrated by the photographer Erich Lessing)
- Histoire de la philosophie au XXe siècle (1995)
- De l'indifférence: essai sur la banalisation du mal (1998)
- D'une République à l'autre: entretiens sur l'histoire et sur la politique (1999; with Maurice Faure)
- Josep Grau-Garriga (2000)
- Le livre dans la jarre (2000; illustrated by Mario Chichorro)
- Le philosophe et le tyran: histoire d'une illusion (2000)
- Philosopher, 2. Les interrogations contemporaines: matériaux pour un enseignement (2000; editor with Robert Maggiori)
- La philosophie politique aujourd'hui: idées, débats, enjeux (2000)
- Une histoire du racisme: des origines à nos jours (2000; preface by Laure Adler)
- Balthus: 1908-2001 (2002)
- Faut-il avoir peur de la mort? (2002)
- Les guerres sont-elles inévitables? (2002)
- Histoire de l'esclavage: de l'Antiquité à nos jours (2002)
- Animaux étranges et fabuleux: un bestiaire fantastique dans l'art (2003; with Ariane Delacampagne)
- Les animaux ont-ils des droits? (2003)
- Islam et Occident : les raisons d'un conflit (2003)
- Apprendre à vivre ensemble: 5 essais de philosophie pour tous (2004)
- Les religions peuvent-elles être tolérantes? (2004)
- Les arts de la chasse (2005)
- Dominique Gutherz (2006)
- Il faut croire en la politique (2006)
- Duende: visages et voix du flamenco (2007; with Ariane Delacampagne)
- Où est passé l'art?: peinture, photographie et politique, 1839-2007 (2007)
- Toute la terre m'appartient: fragments d'une vie errante (2007)
- Noires: nouvelles ; suivi de Tina Blues: récit (2010)
Further reading
- Nichols, Stephen G. (2008). "Christian Delacampagne: Philosopher of the World," MLN, Vol. CXXIII, No. 4, pp. 692–96.
External links
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