Judith Revel

Biography

Former student of the ENS (1986-1990), aggregate (1990), doctor of history of the contemporary thought (Univ. San Marino, 1995) and in philosophy (EHESS, 2005), specialist in the contemporary French thought. After many last years in Italy (1992-2004), sign currently with the University of Paris I. With worked in particular much on the thought of Michel Foucault (several books and about thirty articles, mainly published in France and Italy, but also of the texts translated into English, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, German, Turkish, Danish…) around two main axes: the relationship between Philosophy of the language and literature in the years 1950-1960, and the passage of the Biopolitique to the Subjectivation, between the end of the year 1970 and the beginning of the year 1980.

In addition develop a series of theses on the theorizations of the policy before and after 1968 and on the recasting necessary of the political concepts of modernity, under the influence of the Italian Opéraïsme and particularly of the analyzes of Toni Negri, of which it is the partner.

At the same time extremely indebted and sometimes critical with regard to figures as those of Giorgio Agamben (of which it was on several occasions the translator), of Roberto Esposito or Paolo Virno, in particular on three points which are from now on in its own research center: what one understands by common (debate with Esposito), what is called natural (debate with Virno), which one defines as life (debate with Agamben).

Member of the scientific Office of the Center Michel Foucault, which manages the file of the philosopher lodged with IMEC, member of the drafting of the reviews Posse (in Italy) and Multitudes (in France), it is also collaborator of the cultural pages of the daily newspaper He Manifesto and translator in Social sciences, Philosophie and Théâtre. It intersects finally its research task with a course militant very related to the " movimento" Italian (post-autonomia operaia), and remains very dependant with groups of students and precarious of Rome and Venice/Padoue.

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