About Serge Audier
Born 1970. Serge Audier is a French philosopher, university teacher and sociologist.
Serge Audier is a French philosopher who teaches at the Côte d'Azur University in Nice. He is most notable for his writing on political and ideological conflicts as well as the philosophy of ecology. He is considered a leading authority on the history of liberalism in France.
Education He studied at the Lycée Henri IV in the fifth arrondissement of Paris. He won first prize in French composition in the Concours général in 1987 and first prize in philosophy in the Concours général in 1988. The next phase of his career was at the École normale supérieure, class of 1990, where he obtained the in 1994. He became a Doctor of Philosophy in 2000 with a thesis that won the Raymond-Aron prize in 2001.
Under the direction of Robert Legros, he defended his thesis in December 2000. The thesis was titled, "Machiavel, Tocqueville, Marx dans la pensée politique française de l’entre-deux-guerres," and the doctorate was granted by the University of Caen. he was a junior member from 2007
Research Audier’s work is characterized by a genealogical approach to political ideas. He studies how internally diverse traditions such as republicanism, socialism, liberalism, and neoliberalism became reduced to simplified and apparently coherent narratives. His research examines which interpretations came to dominate, which alternatives were obscured or forgotten, and how these lost lines of thought may be recovered.
Audier later applied this approach to the history of political ecology. In La Société écologique et ses ennemis and L’Âge productiviste, he traces the emergence of productivism as a dominant political narrative while recovering ideas that were marginalized by those dominant partisan agendas.
Awards One of his best known works, La Cité écologique : pour un éco-républicanisme, won the Essay Prize awarded by Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco (also known as PhiloMonaco) in 2021.
His 2019 book, L'Âge productiviste: hégémonie prométhéenne, brèches et alternatives écologiques, won the Prix Paul Ricœur.
His 2017 book, La société écologique et ses ennemis. Pour une histoire alternative de l’émancipation, won the in that year.
Publications Books Les Théories de la République, Paris, La Découverte, coll. « Repères », 2004, 119 p. (ISBN 2-7071-3909-2); revised and expanded edition, 2014, 125 p. . Raymond Aron : la démocratie conflictuelle, Paris, Michalon, coll. « Le bien commun », 2004, 123 p. Tocqueville retrouvé : genèse et enjeux du renouveau tocquevillien français (adapted from the author's doctoral thesis), Paris, chez Vrin / Éditions de l'EHESS, coll. « Contextes », 2004, 319 p. . Machiavel, conflit et liberté, Paris, Librairie philosophique J. Vrin / Éditions de l'EHESS, coll. « Contextes », 2005, 313 p. . Le Socialisme libéral, Paris, La Découverte, coll. « Repères : sciences politiques, droit », 2006, 121 p.; revised and expanded edition, 2014, 125 p. Léon Bourgeois : fonder la solidarité, Paris, Michalon, coll. « Le bien commun », 2007, 125 p. La Pensée anti-68 : essai sur une restauration intellectuelle, Paris, La Découverte, coll. « Cahiers libres », 2008, 379 p. Le Colloque Lippmann : aux origines du néo-libéralisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l'eau, coll. « Les voies du politique », 2008, 354 p. ; revised and expanded edition, preceded by "Penser le 'néo-libéralisme'", 2012, 495 p. La Pensée solidariste. Aux sources du modèle social républicain, Paris, PUF, 2010, 340 p. Néo-libéralisme(s) : une archéologie intellectuelle, Paris, Grasset, coll. « Mondes vécus », 2012, 628 p. Penser le néolibéralisme : le moment néolibéral, Foucault et la crise du socialisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l'eau, coll. « Documents », 2015, 563 p. with Jurgen Reinhoudt, The Walter Lippmann Colloquium: The Birth of Neo-Liberalism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 212 p. . La Société écologique et ses ennemis : pour une histoire alternative de l'émancipation, Paris, La Découverte, 2017, 742 p. — Winner of the Prix de la Fondation de l'écologie politique (2017). . L'Âge productiviste : hégémonie prométhéenne, brèches et alternatives écologiques, Paris, La Découverte, 2019, 967 p. — Winner of the (2019) La Cité écologique : pour un éco-républicanisme, Paris, La Découverte, 2020, 752 p. — Winner of the Prix de l'Essai des Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco (2021) L'Invention du néolibéralisme : histoire, concepts, controverses, vol. 1: Devant la crise du libéralisme : du colloque Lippmann à la société du Mont Pèlerin, Lormont, BDL Editions, 2022, 514 p. . L'Invention du néolibéralisme : histoire, concepts, controverses, vol. 2: Quel néolibéralisme ? : les "Pélerins" en quête d'hégémonie, Lormont, BDL Editions, 2023, 524 p. .
Periodicals Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ?, Monaco, Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco, 2023, 75 p. "Néolibéralisme, inégalités et enjeux écologiques." Cités 89, no. 1 (2022): 27-49. "Les paradigmes du «Néolibéralisme»." Cahiers philosophiques 133, no. 2 (2013): 21-40. "La gauche réformiste et le libéralisme." L'Économie politique 40, no. 4 (2008): 83-100. "Tocqueville et la tradition républicaine." Cahiers de Philosophie de l’université de Caen 44 (2007): 171-245. "Tocqueville, notre contemporain?." Études 404, no. 4 (2006): 487-496.
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