Clément Rosset

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Western Philosophy
Contemporary philosophy
Name
Clément Rosset
Birth October 12, 1939 (1939-10-12) (age 68)
Flag of France Carteret, France
School/tradition Postmodern philosophy
Main interests Metaphysics, Ethics
Influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer · Friedrich Nietzsche · Lucretius · Michel de Montaigne · Blaise Pascal · Baruch de Spinoza · David Hume · Gilles Deleuze · Jacques Lacan · Parmenides

Clément Rosset (born 1939, Carteret, France) is a French philosopher and writer.

After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, he took the agrégation of philosophy in 1965. For the next two years, Rosset taught French at the Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, then settled in Nice, France, where he taught philosophy until his retirement in the late 1990s. Presently he is living in Paris.

The bulk of his work consists in some 30 short books, all of them brief studies or essays on various topics. Most popular is probably Le réel et son double, that deals in an original manner with the inevitably illusionistic character of representations. Arthur Schopenhauer, on whom he Rosset has published a few studies, remains a constant reference throughout his works. The fight with depression has introduced a more personal strain in the later writings of Clément Rosset.

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[edit] Bibliography

In English:

  • Joyful Cruelty (Odeon, 1993)

In French:

  • 1960, La Philosophie tragique;
  • 1962, Le monde et ses remèdes;
  • 1965, Lettre sur les chimpanzés : plaidoyer pour une humanité totale; Essai sur Teilhard de Chardin;
  • 1967, Schopenhauer : philosophe de l'absurde;
  • 1969, L'Esthétique de Schopenhauer;
  • 1971, La logique du pire: éléments pour une philosophie tragique;
  • 1971, L'anti-nature : éléments pour une philosophie tragique;
  • 1976(84), Le réél et son double : essai sur l'illusion;
  • 1978, Le réél : traite de l'idiotie;
  • 1979(85), L'objet singulier;
  • 1983, La force majeure;
  • 1985, Le philosophe et les sortilèges;
  • 1988, Le Principe de cruauté;
  • 1991, En ce temps-là : notes sur Louis Althusser;
  • 1991, Principes de la sagesse et de la folie;
  • 1992, Matière d'art : hommages;
  • 1995, Le choix des mots;
  • 1997, Le démon de la tautologie;
  • 1999, Route de nuit : Episodes cliniques;
  • 1999, Loin de moi : étude sur l'identité;
  • 2000, Le réél, l'imaginaire et l'illusoire;
  • 2001, Le régime des passions et autres textes;
  • 2001, Propos sur le cinéma;
  • 2001, Écrits sur Schopenhauer;
  • 2004, Impressions fugitives : l'ombre, le reflet, l'écho;
  • 2006, Fantasmagories.
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