Jean-Toussaint Desanti
Jean-Toussaint Desanti (October 8, 1914 – January 20, 2002) was a French educator and philosopher.[1]
The son of Jean-François Desanti and Marie-Paule Colonna,[1] he was born in Ajaccio and studied the philosophy of mathematics with Jean Cavaillès. During World War II, he was a member of the French Resistance, associating with Jean-Paul Sartre and André Malraux. He joined the French Communist Party in 1943 with his wife Dominique, remaining a member until 1956. Also in 1956, he published his Introduction à l'histoire de la philosophie.[2]
Desanti taught philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, at the Lycée Lakanal, at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and at the Sorbonne.[2] His students included Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser.[3] In 1968, he published Les Idéalités mathématiques, recherches épistémologiques sur le développement de la théorie des fonctions de variables réelles.[2]
He died less than three weeks after undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in early 2002.[1]
Selected works
- Phénoménologie et praxis (1962)
- La Philosophie silencieuse ou Critique des philosophies de la science (1975)
- Réflexions sur le temps (1982)
- Philosophie, un rêve de flambeur, conversations avec Dominique-Antoine Grisoni (199)
- La liberté nous aime encore (2001) with Dominique Desanti and Roger-Pol Droit[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Une biographie" (in French). L’Institut Desanti.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dictionnaire des Philosophes (in French). Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis. 2014. pp. 741–42. ISBN 2852291185.
- ↑ "Jean-Toussaint Desanti, un rêve de flambeur" (in French). Université Paris Diderot.
- ↑ "Fonds Desanti, Jean-Toussaint" (in French). Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine.