FREDERIC WORMS

“AUTHORS ON TOUR” PROGRAM - NON-FICTION LIST — 2011
FREDERIC WORMS
dates
End of October - beginning of November
Frédéric Worms is a French Philosopher.
He is the director of the Centre
international d'étude de la philosophie
française contemporaine (CIEPFC) at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and a
professor of modern and contemporary
philosophy history.
A specialist of Henri Bergson, he is the coauthor with Philippe Soulez of a
commanding
biography
on
the
philosopher.
Worms directs the Annales bergsoniennes
and edited the first critical Bergson’s
edition for the Presses Universitaires de
France. As an editor he has also contributed to the republication of works by Jean Wahl. He is a member
of the editorial committee for the magazine Esprit in which he writes a regular column “A quoi tenons
nous ?”.
He has been frequently invited as a guest speaker and has notably organized conferences on Jean Wahl,
Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sarte, Raymond Aron, Vladimir Jankélévich, Michel Foucault, Emmanuel
Levinas, Jean Hyppolite, Pierre Hadot, Albert Camus, Roland Barthes, Simone Weil…
In English
to be published
— [Introduction à Matière et mémoire de
Bergson], Villanova University Press; translation
by Russell Ford
—
In French
— Lire Bergson (PUF, 2011)
— La philosophie du soin (PUF, 2010) (with
Céline Lefève
— Droits de l'homme et philosophie : Une
anthologie (1789-1914) (CNRS Editions, 2010)
— Le Moment du soin (PUF, 2010)
— La philosophie en France au XXe.siècle.
Moments (Gallimard, 2008)
— Bachelard et Bergson : Continuité et
discontinuité ? Une relation philosophique au
coeur du XXe siècle (PUF, 2008)
— Bergson ou les deux sens de la vie (PUF,
2004)
— Les deux sources de la morale et de la
religion, Bergson (Ed. Ellipses, 2004)
— Henri Bergson-Albert Kahn, Correspondances
(ed. Desmarest/Musée Albert Kahn,2003) with S.
Coeuré
— Bergson (PUF, 2002)
If you would like to invite this author, please fill out the application form and email it to:
Anne-Sophie Hermil, Tel: 212 439 1467 |[email protected]
“AUTHORS ON TOUR” PROGRAM - NON-FICTION LIST — 2011
— Emile ou la découverte des relations morales
(ed. Ellipses, 2001).
— Le Vocabulaire de Bergson (ed. Ellipses,
2000), 62p
— Introduction à Matière et mémoire de
Bergson (PUF, 1997)
lectures offered
in French/English
— Droits de l’homme et philosophie, une
anthologie (1789-1914) (1993, ed. pressesPocket)
— Bergson, L’Ame et le corps, avec une
Introduction (Hatier, 1992)
To be confirmed.
Dates booked
November 3-5 : Chicago
If you would like to invite this author, please fill out the application form and email it to:
Anne-Sophie Hermil, Tel: 212 439 1467 |[email protected]