Jean-Pierre Faye

Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.

Life and career

Faye was born in Paris. He was member of the editing committee of the avant-garde literary review Tel Quel,^[1] and later of Change. He received the Prix Renaudot for his 1964 novel L'Écluse (Éditions Seuil). He is a regular contributor to Gilles Deleuze's literary journal Chimère. With Jacques Derrida and others, he authored the "Blue Report" (French: Le rapport bleu), which led to the Collège international de philosophie, an open university, in 1983. He soon turned against deconstructionism and postmodernism, as he reflected in Langages totalitaires 2: la raison narrative (1995). His essays, including Théorie du récit and Langages Totalitaires, remain influential studies of the use and abuse of language by totalitarian states and ideologies. Faye is credited with creating the horseshoe theory.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Select bibliography

Dictionnaire politique portatif en cinq mots: démagogie, terreur, tolérance, répression, violence. Essai de philosophie politique. Gallimard, 1982.
Balthus : les dessins. Adam Biro, 1998. ISBN 978-2-87660-231-1.
Concepts number 7: Jean-Pierre Faye et la Philosophie. Sils Maria, 2005. ISBN 978-2-930242-44-6.
Introduction aux langages totalitaires : Théorie et Transformations du récit. Revised edition Hermann, 2003. ISBN 978-2-7056-6450-3.
Journal du voyage absolu : Jeux et enjeux du Grand Danger, accompagné des Transformants féminins. Hermann, 2003. ISBN 978-2-7056-6469-5.
(with Anne-Marie de la Vilaine) La déraison antisémite et son langage. Actes Sud, 1993. ISBN 978-2-7427-0094-3.
La frontière: Sarajevo en archipel. Actes Sud, 1999. ISBN 978-2-7427-0601-3.
Langages totalitaires. Reprinted Hermann, 2004. ISBN 978-2-7056-6480-0.
La philosophie desormais. Colin, 2004. ISBN 978-2-200-26550-2.
Le langage meurtrier. Hermann, 1996. ISBN 978-2-7056-6256-1.
Le livre du vrai. Evénement violence. L'Harmattan, 1998. ISBN 978-2-7384-7148-2.
Le Siècle des idéologies. Agora, 2002. ISBN 978-2-266-10141-7.
Nietzsche et Salomé. Ecrivains, 2000. ISBN 978-2-246-58591-6.
(with Jacqueline Russ) Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? Colin, 1997. ISBN 978-2-200-01548-0.

References

^ "[Faye] a été plusieurs années durant membre de notre comité de rédaction, exactement du n^o. 14 (été 1963) au n^o. 31 (automne 1967)". cf. Tel Quel Nr. 43 (Herbst 1970) S. 89
^ Encel, Frédéric; Thual, François (13 November 2004). "United States-Israel: A friendship that needs to be demystified". Le Figaro. Paris. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2009. Jean-Pierre Faye's famous horseshoe theory (according to which extremes meet) finds verification here more than in other places, and the two states of delirium often mingle and meet, unfortunately spreading beyond these extremist circles. But contrary to the legend deliberately maintained and/or the commonplace believed in good faith, Israel and the United States have not always been allies; on several occasions, their relations have even been strained.
^ Mayer, Nonna (2011). "Why extremes don't meet: Le Pen and Besancenot Voters in the 2007 Presidential Election" (PDF). French Politics, Culture & Society. 29 (3): 101–120. doi:10.3167/fpcs.2011.290307. Retrieved 12 July 2023. A commonly received idea, one strengthened by the post-war debates about the nature of totalitarianism, is that 'extremes meet.' Rather than a straight line between the Left and Right poles, the political spectrum would look more like a circle, or a 'horseshoe,' a metaphor the philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye used to describe the position of German parties in 1932, from the Nazis to the Communists.
^ Pavlopoulos, Vassilis (20 March 2014). "Politics, Economics, and the Far Right in Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective" (PDF). The Challenge of the Extreme Right in Europe: Past, Present, Future. London: Birkbeck, University of London. p. 16. Retrieved 12 July 2023. The so-called centrist/extremist or horseshoe theory points to notorious similarities between the two extremes of the political spectrum (e.g., authoritarianism). It remains alive though many sociologists consider it to have been thoroughly discredited (Berlet & Lyons, 2000). Furthermore, the ideological profiles of the two political poles have been found to differ considerably (Pavlopoulos, 2013). The centrist/extremist hypothesis narrows civic political debate and undermines progressive organizing. Matching the neo-Nazi with the radical left leads to the legitimization of far-right ideology and practices.

External links

Review of works by Faye by Pierre Favre in Revue française de science politique (in French), vol. 26, issue 3 (1976), pp. 600–610.
"H. et h. ou la métaphysique du boulanger" (in French) in Chimère, vol. 8 (Summer 1990).

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[1] "[Faye] a été plusieurs années durant membre de notre comité de rédaction, exactement du n^o. 14 (été 1963) au n^o. 31 (automne 1967)". cf. Tel Quel Nr. 43 (Herbst 1970) S. 89

[2] Encel, Frédéric; Thual, François (13 November 2004). "United States-Israel: A friendship that needs to be demystified". Le Figaro. Paris. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2009. Jean-Pierre Faye's famous horseshoe theory (according to which extremes meet) finds verification here more than in other places, and the two states of delirium often mingle and meet, unfortunately spreading beyond these extremist circles. But contrary to the legend deliberately maintained and/or the commonplace believed in good faith, Israel and the United States have not always been allies; on several occasions, their relations have even been strained.

[3] Mayer, Nonna (2011). "Why extremes don't meet: Le Pen and Besancenot Voters in the 2007 Presidential Election" (PDF). French Politics, Culture & Society. 29 (3): 101–120. doi:10.3167/fpcs.2011.290307. Retrieved 12 July 2023. A commonly received idea, one strengthened by the post-war debates about the nature of totalitarianism, is that 'extremes meet.' Rather than a straight line between the Left and Right poles, the political spectrum would look more like a circle, or a 'horseshoe,' a metaphor the philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye used to describe the position of German parties in 1932, from the Nazis to the Communists.

[4] Pavlopoulos, Vassilis (20 March 2014). "Politics, Economics, and the Far Right in Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective" (PDF). The Challenge of the Extreme Right in Europe: Past, Present, Future. London: Birkbeck, University of London. p. 16. Retrieved 12 July 2023. The so-called centrist/extremist or horseshoe theory points to notorious similarities between the two extremes of the political spectrum (e.g., authoritarianism). It remains alive though many sociologists consider it to have been thoroughly discredited (Berlet & Lyons, 2000). Furthermore, the ideological profiles of the two political poles have been found to differ considerably (Pavlopoulos, 2013). The centrist/extremist hypothesis narrows civic political debate and undermines progressive organizing. Matching the neo-Nazi with the radical left leads to the legitimization of far-right ideology and practices.

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