Renaud Barbaras

Renaud Barbaras (born 27 August 1955) he is Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is most notable for his thoughts on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jan Patočka across multiple works.

From 2012-2014, he was president of the jury for the Agrégation. After earning his doctorate in 1990, he joined the faculty at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University where he has been teaching since 1991.

He is a member of the editorial board for the journal Alter and co-director of the journal Chiasmi International.

In 2014, Renaud Barbaras received the Grand prix de philosophie from l'Académie française, for the entire body of his work. and in 2017 he was in Monaco again for a "rencontre" (interview, meeting) for a workshop and discussion of "" (the body in turmoil) along with philosophers Bernard Andrieu and Corine Pelluchon.

In 2017, he received for his work « Métaphysique du sentiment. »

In 2019, he was the laureate of of the Catholic University of Louvain (in Louvain-la-Neuve) where he delivered the lecture that was later published in his book .

In 2024, he achieved the at the Catholic University of Paris.

Research In 1999, Barbaras built his philosophy in confrontation with the aporias of the philosophy of the late Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the philosopher his thesis in 1990 paid homage to. He was drawn to the works of both Merleau-Ponty and of Jan Patočka. L'appartenance. Vers une cosmologie phénoménologique, Leuven, Peeters, 2019. Introduction à une phénoménologie de la vie, Paris, Vrin, 2008. English translation by Leonard Lawlor as Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life forthcoming with Indiana University Press, 2022. Phénoménologie et cosmologie, Paris, éditions Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2024.

English translated bibliography

Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life. Translation by Leonard Lawlor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. The Phenomenology of Life: Desire as the Being of the Subject. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology. 2012. Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception. Stanford University Press. 192p. . "The being of the phenomenon : Merleau-Ponty's ontology." Loan copy from the Internet Archive. 2004. Translated by Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor. . Affectivity and Movement: The Sense of Sensing in Erwin Straus. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3 (2):215-228. 2004. Francisco Varela: A New Idea of Perception and Life. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (2):127-132. 2002.

Co-authored works (in English) with Jane Marie Todd, and Emmanuel Alloa. Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. with Ben Garceau. "On Nature." The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 58 (2012): 122-130. with Jen McWeeny. Life, Movement, and Desire. Research in Phenomenology 38 (1):3-17. 2008. with Paul Milan. “Merleau-Ponty and Nature.” Research in Phenomenology 31 (2001): 22–38.

Prefaces and postfaces Duicu, Dragos. Phénoménologie du mouvement: Patočka et l'héritage de la physique aristotélicienne. France: Hermann, 2014. Postface by Renaud Barbaras.