François Châtelet

Personal life

François Châtelet married his first wife, Janine Marie Mathon, in 1948 while living in Oran. The two divorced in June 1957.

In December 1968, he married Noëlle Jospin, whose brother Lionel Jospin served as Prime Minister of France between 1997 and 2002 during the presidency of Jacques Chirac. The two remained married for the rest of Châtelet's life. Together, they had a son, Antoine.

Works

Monographs Périclès et son siècle (Pericles and his age) (1960) La naissance de l'histoire : la formation de la pensée historienne en Grèce, (The birth of history: the formation of historical thought in Greece) (1961) Logos et praxis: recherches sur la signification théorique du marxisme (Logos and praxis: research on the theoretical significance of Marxism) (1962) Platon (Plato) (1965) Hegel (1968) La philosophie des professeurs (The Philosophy of Professors) (1970) Histoire de la philosophie (History of Philosophy) (1972–1973) — 8 volumes Profil d'une œuvre : « Le Capital » (livre 2) (Profile of a work: Das Kapital (book 2)) (1976) Les Années de démolition (The Demolition Years) (1976) Questions, objections (Questions, objections) (1979) Une histoire de la raison (A History of Reason) (1992) Logos et Praxis (Logos and Praxis) (2006)

English translations "Classical Greece, Reason, and the State," trans. Adam E. Foster, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 38 (2023): 21–43.

Co-authored works La Révolution sans modèle (Revolution without a model) (1974), with Gilles Lapouge and Oliver Revault d'Allones. Les marxistes et la politique (Marxists and the political) (1975), with Évelyne Pisier and Jean-Marie Vincent. Chronique des idées perdues (The chronicle of lost ideas) (1977), with André Akoun. Les conceptions politiques du xxe siècle (Political conceptions of the 20th century) (1982), with Évelyne Pisier. Histoire des conceptions politiques (History of political conceptions) (1982), with Éveline Pisier and Olivier Duhamel. Dictionnaire des œuvres politiques (Dictionary of political works) (1986), with Éveline Pisier and Olivier Duhamel.