Prof. Dr. Olivier Remaud

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Philosophy,Social Sciences
KeywordsHistory and theory of cosmopolitanisms, Common sense and Ecology

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityParis 06
InstitutionEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
InstituteCentre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Catherine Colliot-TheleneCentre Franco-Allemand de Recherches en Sciences Sociales, Centre Marc Bloch e.V., Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jürgen TrabantInstitut für Romanische Philologie (WE 5), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Winfried MenninghausPeter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (WE 3), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Dr. habil. Ottmar EtteInstitut für Romanistik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Stefan WillerLeibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christoph F. E. HolzheyInstitute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2002

Program(s)

2000Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2012Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

As the holder of a chair in modernity at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of Paris, Professor Remaud is internationally renowned for his research in the fields of social philosophy and political thought, focusing on critical cosmopolitanisms, theories of historicity, common-sense categories and social imaginaries. He was awarded various international fellowships and professorships, he has developed groundbreaking lines of work resulting from innovative choices which help to shape contemporary thinking on society and culture. During his stay in Potsdam he will research on the international networks and philosophical context of cosmopolitanism. To give the academic exchange a wide audience, a conference will be organized in 2013 on the main topic of the cooperation: cosmopolitanism.

Publications (partial selection)

2022Olivier Remaud: Thinking Like An Iceberg. Polity Press, 2022
2017Olivier Remaud: Solitude volontaire. Albin Michel, 2017
2015Olivier Remaud: Accelerating Change and Trigger Events. In: M. Tamm (ed.), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives of Mnemohistory. Pallgrave, 2015. 55-75
2015Olivier Remaud: Devenir citoyen du monde en s’indignant ? Une relecture du Common Sense de Thomas Paine. In: L. Crips et al., Être citoyen du monde. Entre destruction et reconstruction du monde (XVe-XXIe siècles). Presses de l’Université Paris 7, 2015. 109-122
2015Olivier Remaud: Un monde étrange. Pour une autre approche du cosmopolitisme. PUF, 2015
2014Olivier Remaud: How Do You Become Contemporary? On Controversies and Common Sense. In: N. Göle (ed.), Transnational Study of Public Controversies around Islam in Europe. Ashgate, 2014. 21-35
2014Olivier Remaud: The Antinomies of Cosmopolitan Reason. In: Humanity. An International Journal on Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 73-91
2012Olivier Remaud et al. (Co-Editors-in-Chief): Faire des Sciences Sociales Comparer. EHESS Press, 2012
2012Olivier Remaud et al. (Co-Editors-in-Chief): Faire des Sciences Sociales Critiquer. EHESS Press, 2012
2012Olivier Remaud et al. (Co-Editors-in-Chief): Faire des Sciences Sociales Généraliser. EHESS Press, 2012
2010Olivier Remaud: La violence dans les mots. In: Soraya Nour Sckell, Olivier Remaud, War and Peace: the Role of Science an Art - Beiträge zur Politischen Wissenschaft, Band 159. Duncker & Humblot, 2010. 37-44
2008Olivier Remaud and Chryssanthi Avlami: Civilisations. Retour sur les mots et les idées. Revue de synthèse. Springer. Special Issue (1) 2008
2008Olivier Remaud, Gilles Delannoi, Alexandre Escudier, and Paul Zawadzki: Le monde à l’ère de la vitesse. Esprit. Special Issue (6), 2008
2006Olivier Remaud: La nature et les Américains. La République des Idées. Seuil. Special Issue (10), 2006
2005Olivier Remaud, Pierre Girard and Marie Gaille-Nikodimov: L'épreuve de la nouveauté. ENS LSH Press. Laboratoire italien. Special Issue (6), 2005
2005Olivier Remaud: Le métier d'architecte et l'art d'édifier lire Alberti aujourd'hui.. In: Esprit, 2005, 57-75
2004Olivier Remaud: Les Archives de l'humanité. Essai sur la philosophie de Vico. éditions du Seuil, 2004
2003Olivier Remaud: Ethique et politique Foucault et Spinoza. In: Emmanuel Da Silva, Lectures de Michel Foucault 2 Foucault et la philosophie. Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2003. 39-58
2002Olivier Remaud: Language of Dark Times. Canetti, Klemperer, Benjamin (original text translated in chinese language). In: Diogene (edition of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Pekin), 2002, 86-103
2002Olivier Remaud: Les deux esprits de la langue. In: B. Lindorfer, D. Naguschewski, Hegel. Zur Sprache. Beiträge zum europäischen Sprachdenken. Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. 249-262
2002Olivier Remaud: Norbert Elias et l'effondrement de la civilisation: les Studien über die Deutschen. In: Working Paper, 2002, 1-15
2002Olivier Remaud et Pierre Girard: Recherches sur la pensée de Giambattista Vico. Ellipses, 2002
2002Olivier Remaud: Tempo e passioni in Machiavelli. In: Bruna Consarelli, Pensiero moderno ed identità politica europea. CEDAM, 2002. 27-43
2002Olivier Remaud: Une idée vraie de la servitude volontaire est-elle pensble? Le débat Marat-La Boétie. In: André et Luc Tournon, La Boétie - Discours De La Servitude Volontaire. Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2002. 131-146
1998Olivier Remaud: Michelet. La Magistrature de l’histoire. Michalon, 1998