Jean-François Courtine
Jean-François Courtine (born October 23, 1944), is a historian of philosophy and specialist in the history of ontology. Honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he has been professor emeritus at Paris-Sorbonne University since September 2013 and member of the International Institute of Philosophy (IIP) since 2000.
Biography
Jean-François Courtine followed his secondary studies at the Collège des Oratoriens (Paris), and the Cours Hattemer, (hypokhâgne at the Lycée Montesquieu in Le Mans, khâgne at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly then Henri IV). He then obtained a degree in Classical Letters and Philosophy at the University of Paris as well as a graduate degree under the supervision of Maurice de Gandillac.
A former student of Jean Beaufret and Pierre Aubenque, he succeeded Paul Ricœur as director of the Husserl Archives in Paris; he was literary director and director of the “Philosophy Library”, “Problèmes & controverses”, “Études et commentaries” collections at the Philosophical Library J. Vrin from 1987 to 2015.
Agrégé in philosophy, he defended his doctoral thesis in letters in 1987 under the supervision of Pierre Aubenque: Le tournant suarezien : étude sur la formation du système de la métaphysique scolaire.
He is a specialist, among other things, in the history of the vocabulary of being and of ontology.
After teaching at the Lycée de Saint Germain-en-Laye, then at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (scientific preparatory classes and HEC), he was recruited in 1973 as a research associate, then researcher, and research director at CNRS, at the Léon Robin Center (Center for Research on the History of Ancient Thought), then directed by Pierre Aubenque, a research unit which depends on the Paris-Sorbonne University.
After leaving the CNRS, Jean-François Courtine was a professor at the University of Poitiers from 1988 to 1990, then professor at the École normale supérieure, from 1990 to 1998. He founded there then headed the Department of Philosophy, as well as the Research Center, "Archives Husserl de Paris", from 1987 in 2009, succeeding Paul Ricoeur, then Henri Birault.
In 1999 he was appointed professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne; he was elected Vice-President of the Scientific Council from 2001 to 2003, member of the Scientific Council (2005-2008), then Associate Professor for Research (2008-2011); he was President of the 17th section of the CNU (National Council of Universities) from 2007 to 2011, and Vice-President of the Standing Committee of the National Council of Universities from 2009 to 2011.
Visiting professor in numerous universities in Europe and Latin America, he was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (chair: ontology, theory of the object), from 2002 to 2013.
Works
- Suarez et le système de la métaphysique (1990)
- Heidegger et la phénoménologie (1990)
- Extase de la raison. Essais sur Schelling (314)
- Nature et empire de la Loi. Études suaréziennes (1999)
- Les catégories de l’être. Études de philosophie ancienne et médiévale (2003)
- Inventio analogiae : Métaphysique et ontothéologie (2005)
- A Tragédia e o Tempo da História (2006)
- La cause de la phénoménologie (2007)
- Levinas, La trame logique de l'être (2012)
- Schelling, Entre temps et éternité - Histoire et préhistoire de la conscience (2012)
- Archéo-Logique. Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka (2013)
