Jean-Fabien Spitz (born in 1952) is a French, philosophical academic and specialist in philosophy political. Normalien, aggregate of philosophy, he is today professor of political philosophy to the Université of Paris I. He is regarded as one of the best French specialists in the political philosophy of John Locke.

Among the French specialists in political philosophy, it is characterized by its interest for the contemporary Anglo-Saxon currents and analytical philosophy. It in particular translated into French several major works of recent American political philosophy: the liberalism and limits of justice , Michael Sandel, Républicanisme of Philip Pettit, and In the name of the people. Bases of the American democracy of Bruce Ackerman.

Principal works

• political freedom. Test of conceptual genealogy (1995)

• love of the equality: test on the criticism of republican egalitarianism in France, 1770-1830 (2000)
• John Locke and bases of modern freedom (2001)
• republican moment in France (2005)