Patrick Savidan

Patrick Savidan is a French philosopher (born in 1965). University lecturer in philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), President of the Observatory of the inequalities, editor association of the review public Reason (Presses of the Paris-Sorbonne University) and deputy manager of the collection " The New college of philosophie" (Grasset).

Anxious to engage philosophy on concrete questions, Patrick Savidan combines normative reflection and knowledge resulting from research in the field of the social sciences. Its work concerns more particularly the questions of social justice and cohesion.

Formation

Initially formed in right (at the University of Toulon) and in political science (at the university of Ottawa, Canada), it then supported, at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, under the direction of the philosopher Alain Renaut, a thesis of history of the philosophy devoted to the concept of subject at Kant. It supports there that the reasons for which the Kantian theory of the subject preserves a topicality are related to the religious presupposed forts of Kant. Paradoxically, it is an aspect " daté" kantienne thought which would explain its contemporary relevance then. Its work fits since in the field of political philosophy and social ethics.

Fields of research

normative Dimensions of the public policies and the social practices
Social justice, social protection
Individualism and social link
Institutions and practices
the idea of public reason: concepts, stories and problems (public deliberation, private sphere/public sphere, pluralism ethnoculturel, policy and religion, the rational one and the reasonable one, public reason and inequalities, social criticism, public reason and values, dissensions in democracy)

Works

To reconsider the equal opportunity , Paris, Grasset, 2007.
the State of the inequalities in France. 2007 , to dir. in collaboration with Louis Maurin, Paris, Belin, 2006.
Dictionary of the social sciences , to dir. in does collaboration with Sylvie Measure, Paris, University Presses of France, 2006.
the Republic or Europe? , to dir., Paris, Deliver pocket, coll " Biblio essais" , 2004.
To include/understand (n°4): " inégalités" , to dir. in collaboration with Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Paris, University Presses of France, 2003.
Pluralism and deliberation. Stakes of contemporary political philosophy , to dir. as a coll with Koula Mellos, Ottawa, Presses of the University of Ottawa, 1999.
History of political philosophy , under dir it. of A. Renaut, coordination P. Savidan and P. - H. Tavoillot, five volumes, Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1999.
Culture of the debt , as a coll with Patrice Martin, Montreal, Boreal, 1994.

Related bonds

Observatory of the inequalities
University for all
Re-examined '' public Raison ''
Re-examined '' Nouveau College of philosophy ''

Sources

Page of Patrick Savidan, university lecturer in the Sorbonne
Eric the Butcher, “Patrick Savidan. In the search of a “public reason””, in Le Monde , edition of May 20th, 2006.

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