Antoine Spire

Antoine Spire (born on March 31st 1946), was director of the department research in social sciences of the National institute of cancer, journalist of press and radio, intellectual French.

It is in addition stimulating/co-ordinating of conferences and national cultural meetings; and leading adviser with the newspaper Le Monde and World of education , journalist with the Life . He collaborates in various associative publications.

Author of books, it also took part in many popularizing works carried out in collaboration with intellectuals among most eminent, in particular Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, George Steiner, Edgar Morin. With the Professor David Khayat, Antoine Spire also published a series of seven works articulated around the topic " Philosophy and Santé " (editions of the Edge of Water). Its last book (written with Nicolas Martin), " God does he love the patients? - The religions monotheists vis-a-vis the disease " , received the Grand Prix of the MEDEC 2005.

Biography

The parents of Antoine Spire came since from old French Jewish families established in Lorraine of the generations and perfectly integrated, republican and patriotic. A grandfather was made the narrator of the French revolution while writing: the revolutionary Newspaper of Abraham Whorl, account of the Parisian events for the Jewish community of Metz published in 1989 by the Verdier editions.

The father, philosophical regarding the Judaism as a yoke of rites and regulations antiquated, perhaps influenced by his friendship for Simone Weil and the frequentation of Gabriel Marcel, decided to convert with the Catholicisme to pass, said it, “ reign of the Law to the reign of the Love ”. It was at the end of the Thirties. The family, like so much of others, was caught up with by the storm, its members had to carry yellow star and some perished. For Antoine Spire, born after the war, the conversion of his/her father, whereas already persecutions went up, remains a painful mystery: it did not know, or could not, to pose the good questions on what seems to him now a disavowal. Perplexed, it probes this “ species of hole to be, of cultural vacuum ” which was bequeathed to him and to which it adapted a long time, in particular during its twelve years of militancy to the Communist party, before seeking what it could itself transmit to his children.

Antoine Spire was raises with HEC and obtained a control of sociology in 1968.

From 1985 to 1987, it occupied the function of cultural writer-in-chief to the Matin of Paris. During 23 years, he was journalist with France-Culture, where he has inter alia, produced and carried out the emissions “Voice of silence” and “Staccato passage”. In 2000, Antoine Spire was by name designated by Renaud Camus in his book the Countryside of France: newspaper (1994) like one of the too many Jews taking part in the emission " Panorama" of France Culture. It is suddenly “ felt pinned like a butterfly ”, located and challenged. From where the concern expressed by Antoine Spire, who reacts by writing the obsession of the origins . “ Since 1945, one did not dare any more to sort openly Jewish and not Jews, to count those which are it, those which are not to it ”. This business feeds a debate during a few months, generating some other books and press articles.

He was professor associated in communication with the University of technology with Compiegne with 2001 to 2004.

In 2006, deep dissensions with the Ligue of the Human rights make it leave this organization.

Works

silence in heritage , ED. Laffont, 1988
These children whom we miss , ED. Maren Salt, 1990.
After the great evenings , ED. Otherwise, 1996.
the cruelty of ignorance , discussion with George Steiner, editions the Edge of water, 1998.
On word: discussion with Jacques Derrida , ED. paddle, 1999.
will to include/understand: discussion with Jean-Pierre Vernant , ED. paddle, 1999.
Reliances: discussion with Edgar Morin , ED. paddle, 2000.
What haunts me , discussion with George Steiner, ED. The Edge of water, 2000.
the obsession of the origins , ED. Verticals/Threshold, 2000.
Questions in Paris , with Nicolas Martin, ED. The Edge of water, 2001.
Health and philosophy (7 collective works), ED. The Edge of water, 2001.
Beyond appearances , discussion with Jacques Derrida, ED. The edge of water, 2002.
philosophy is essential with the human existence , discussion with Felix Guattari, ED. paddle, 2002.
If the world is unbearable for me , discussion with Pierre Bourdieu, ED. paddle, 2002.
the memory , with Christian Derouesné, ED. EDP sciences, 2002.
the optimism of the will , discussion with Eric J. Hobsbawm, ED. The Edge of water 2003.
the made up passer by , dialog with Daniel Mesguich, ED. Does the Edge of water, 2004.
God love the patients? , with Nicolas Martin, ED. Anne Carrière, 2004 (price of the MEDEC 2005).

And also:

the battle of the book (with J.P. Viala), ED. social, 1976.
Profession permanent ED. Threshold, 1980
culture of the comrades (ouv. collective), ED. Otherwise, 1986.
the denouncement (ouv. collective), ED. Otherwise, 1987
money, for a moral rehabilitation (ouv. collective), ED. Otherwise, 1992.
Paris impressions ED. Subervie, 1998.

External bonds

Personal site of Antoine Spire

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