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Chantal Jaquet
Chantal Jaquet (born 1956) is a French philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.[1]
Chantal Jaquet | |
|---|---|
 Self-portrait by Chantal Jaquet, 2026 | |
| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) |
| Occupations | Philosopher, university professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, Université Paris-Sorbonne |
| Alma mater | Université Paris-Sorbonne (doctorate) |
| Thesis | Sub specie aeternitatis: A Study of the Concepts of Time, Duration, and Eternity in Spinoza |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Marie Beyssade |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Sub-discipline | Spinoza, philosophy of the body, history of modern philosophy |
| Institutions | Université Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Notable ideas | social philosophy (transclasses), philosophy of smell |
Jaquet’s research focuses on Spinoza, the history of modern philosophy, social philosophy, and the philosophy of the body, among other topics.[1] From 2018 to 2021, she directed the Center for the History of Modern Philosophy at the Sorbonne.[1] She founded the journal "Philonsorbonne", the official publication of the doctoral program in philosophy, which she directed from 2006 to 2016.[2] She also edits the series "The Ancients and the Moderns: Philosophical Studies" (French: Les Anciens et les Modernes: études de philosophie) published by Classiques Garnier.[1]
Like Annie Ernaux, Didier Eribon, and Édouard Louis, Jaquet is associated with "écriture sociologique", a movement that elevates social stratification to a literary motif and whose cinematic counterpart is Xavier Dolan.[3]
In her book Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction, Jaquet builds on Pierre Bourdieu’s theories and reinterprets the concept of upward social mobility or self-made person, which she reconceptualizes as the “class transitioner” (French: transclasse). The ability to move from one social milieu to another fosters the capacity to mediate between classes, to speak different sociolects (here: class-specific group languages), and to think in more nuanced ways.
In September 2021, she gave an interview with Jean-Marie Durand and discussed her painful childhood marked by poverty and her own journey out of the working class, which was published as a paperback under the title "Just in Passing" (French: Juste en passant).[4]
Biography
Chantal Jaquet comes from Tincave, a mountain hamlet in Savoy, and grew up in a very poor family.[5] Her mother was a housewife, while her father worked successively as a shepherd, a miner and a local council worker.[6] Compared with her contemporary social environment, her career path and social trajectory were extraordinary. As a scholarship student at the Collège d’enseignement général (English: General Education College) in Bozel, she passed the entrance examination for the École normale d'institutrices de Savoie at the age of 15 as Best of Class.[5] Although she was originally supposed to become a teacher, she was allowed to continue her studies in the preparatory classes as a paid trainee teacher, since she had achieved a top grade in Literature in her A-levels.
She was admitted to the École normale supérieure (elite higher-education institution) in Fontenay-aux-Roses and subsequently passed the Agrégation (advanced teacher qualification) in Philosophy. Following her secondment to the Paris Education Authority, she taught as an Agrégée (holder of the agrégation) successively at grammar schools in Flers (in the department of Orne) and Draguignan (in the department of Var), as well as in the Parisian suburbs of Étampes and Athis-Mons.
Alongside her teaching duties, she wrote her doctoral thesis, entitled "Sub specie aeternitatis: An Examination of the Concepts of Time, Duration and Eternity in Spinoza", under the supervision of Jean-Marie Beyssade.[1] She defended her doctoral thesis in 1994 and received the grade “with high distinction and the unanimous congratulations of the examination board”, which corresponds to the English distinction of summa cum laude ("with the highest distinction"). The following year, she was appointed lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She subsequently obtained her habilitation on the topic of "Forms of Expression of Agency" and was appointed professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.[1]
Research work
Chantal Jaquet’s research focuses on the forms of expression of agency.[1] In her early career, she explored Spinoza and the power of the mind to be eternal and to comprehend things sub specie æternitatis (‘from the perspective of eternity’). Taking this term as her starting point, Chantal Jaquet examined the relationship between eternity and duration in Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy, i.e. areas that are often regarded as under-explored in his system, and aimed to clarify their rational connection within existence.[7] Continuing this line of thought, she turned her attention to an examination of the power of the body, forming a counterpart to the power of the mind, and addressed this presumed dichotomy in her book "The Unity of Body and Mind: Affects, Actions, and Passions in Spinoza".[8] In this work, she addressed the theory of psychophysical parallelism, which commentators such as Martial Gueroult and Gilles Deleuze have wrongly attributed to Spinoza. She drew on a Spinozist model and combined it with a phenomenological approach to develop an independent philosophical reflection on the technical, artistic, ethical and sexual power of the body.[9] Her research on the power of the body has led her to explore the sense of smell and to develop a philosophy centered on this neglected sense[10] as well as an olfactory aesthetic.[11]
In 2021, she published the article "The Status of Subjects in Spinoza" in the International Journal of Philosophy (French: Revue internationale de philosophie).[12] In this context, she explored the ways in which subjects resist and began by analyzing Hobbes’ conception of the individual. She then discussed the question of whether the subject must relinquish its right to resistance, and examined the terms subditus and subjectum and their relationship within Spinoza’s philosophy. Her analysis concluded that the status as a subject does not imply relinquishing the right to resistance.
She coined the term ‘transclass’ to describe people who move from one social milieu to another without relinquishing their status as a transitional figure or the identity markers of their origins, which contrasts with the traditional understanding of the self-made person, who is supposed to have completed the process.[13][14]
Publications
Books authored
French works
- Le Désir ("Desire"). Paris: Éditions Quintette, 1991; reissued September 2003. ISBN 2-86850-123-0
- Sub specie aeternitatis, étude des concepts de temps durée et éternité chez Spinoza ("Sub specie aeternitatis: Study of the concepts of time, duration, and eternity in Spinoza"). Paris: Kimé, 1997; Foreword by Alexandre Matheron. ISBN 978-2-841-74071-0
- New edition, Classiques Garnier, 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3590-4
- Spinoza ou la Prudence ("Spinoza or Prudence"). Paris: Éditions Quintette, 1997; reissued 2004. ISBN 2-86850-133-8
- Le Corps ("The Body"). Paris: PUF, Philosopher, 2001. ISBN 978-2-13051-624-8
- L’unité du corps et de l’esprit. Affects, actions et passions chez Spinoza ("The Unity of Body and Mind: Affects, Actions, and Passions in Spinoza"). Paris: PUF, 2004; reissued 2015. ISBN 978-2-13054-204-9
- Les expressions de la puissance d’agir chez Spinoza ("Expressions of the Power to Act in Spinoza"). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005. ISBN 2-85944-537-4
- Philosophie de l’odorat ("Philosophy of the Sense of Smell"), Paris: PUF, 2010. ISBN 978-2-13057-914-4
- Bacon et la promotion des savoirs ("Bacon and the Dissemination of Knowledge"), Paris: PUF, 2010. ISBN 978-2-13056-857-5
- Les Transclasses ou la Non-Reproduction ("Between the Classes: On the Non-Reproduction of Social Power"), Paris: PUF, 2014. ISBN 978-2-13063-182-8
- Les liens corps esprit, regards croisés à partir de cas cliniques. ("The Body-Mind Connection: Perspectives from Clinical Cases"); in collaboration with Pauline Neveu, Eric Pireyre, Fabrice de Sainte Maréville, and Philippe Scialom, Paris: Dunod, 2014. ISBN 978-2-10070-588-7
- Le Désir ("The Desire"), Paris: Éditions du Retour, 2017; New Edition. ISBN 978-2-95579-061-8
- Spinoza à l'œuvre, composition des corps et force des idées ("Spinoza at Work: The Composition of Bodies and the Power of Ideas"), Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2017. ISBN 978-2-85944-984-1
- Philosophie du kôdô : l'esthétique japonaise des fragrances ("Philosophy of Kôdô: The Japanese Aesthetics of Fragrance"), Paris: Vrin, 2018. ISBN 978-2-71162-851-3
- Juste en passant ("Just in Passing"), with Jean-Marie Durand, Paris: PUF, 2021. ISBN 2130827829
English translations
- Transclasses: A theory of Social Non-reproduction. Translated by Elliott, Gregory. London, New York: Verso Books, 2023. ISBN 978-1-83976-885-9
Edited volumes
- Les trois erreurs de Bacon et de Descartes selon Spinoza ("The Three Errors of Bacon and Descartes According to Spinoza"), No. 6 of the Revue de l’Enseignement philosophique ("Journal of Philosophy Education"), July–August 1997. Proceedings of the colloquium held on March 22, 1997, chaired by Chantal Jaquet.
- L'Héritage baconien au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècles ("The Baconian Legacy in the 17th and 18th Centuries"), Paris: Kimé, 2000.
- Fortitude et servitude, Lectures de l’Éthique IV de Spinoza ("Fortitude and Servitude: Readings on Spinoza’s Ethics IV"), in collaboration with Pascal Sévérac and Ariel Suhamy; Kimé, 2003.
- Les Pensées métaphysiques de Spinoza ("Spinoza’s Metaphysical Thoughts"), edited by Chantal Jaquet; Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004.
- Les significations du « corps » dans la philosophie classique ("The Meanings of the ‘Body’ in Classical Philosophy"), edited by Chantal Jaquet and Tamas Pavlovits; L’Harmattan, 2004.
- Spinoza, Philosophe de l’amour ("Spinoza, Philosopher of Love"), edited by Chantal Jaquet, Ariel Suhamy, and Pascal Sévérac; Presses de Saint-Étienne, 2005.
- Les Facultés de l’âme à l’âge classique ("The Powers of the Soul in Classical Antiquity"), edited by Chantal Jaquet and Tamas Pavlovits; Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006.
- La Multitude libre. Nouvelles lectures du Traité politique de Spinoza ("The Free Multitude. New Interpretations of Spinoza’s Political Treatise"), edited by Chantal Jaquet, Ariel Suhamy, and Pascal Sévérac; Éditions Amsterdam, 2008.
- La théorie spinoziste des rapports corps/esprit et ses usages actuels ("Spinoza's Theory of the Relationship Between Body and Mind and Its Contemporary Applications"); Paris, Hermann, 2009.
- Spinoza Transalpin, les interprétations actuelles en Italie ("Spinoza Transalpin: Contemporary Interpretations in Italy"), edited by Chantal Jaquet and Pierre-François Moreau; Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012. ISBN 978-2-85944-691-8
- L’art du portrait conceptuel, Deleuze et l’histoire de la philosophie ("The Art of the Conceptual Portrait, Deleuze and the History of Philosophy"), edited by Axel Cherniasky and Chantal Jaquet; Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2013. ISBN 978-2-8124-1055-0
- El arte del retrato conceptual. Deleuze y la historia de la filosofía ("The Art of the Conceptual Portrait: Deleuze and the History of Philosophy"), edited by Axel Cherniasky and Chantal Jaquet; Buenos Aires, Eduvim, 2014. ISBN 978-987-699-143-8
- L'art olfactif contemporain ("Contemporary Olfactory Art"), Proceedings of the symposium "Olfactory Creation" (May 23–24, 2014), edited by Chantal Jaquet; Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3551-5
- Spinoza Malebranche, à la croisée des interprétations (“"Spinoza and Malebranche: At the Crossroads of Interpretations"), edited by Raffaele Carbone, Chantal Jaquet, and Pierre-François Moreau; Éditions de l'ENS, 2018. ISBN 978-284788-978-9
- La fabrique des transclasses ("The Making of Transclasses"), edited by Chantal Jaquet and Gérard Bras; PUF, 2018.
References
- "Mme Chantal Jaquet: Professeure émérite "Philosophie"" [Ms. Chantal Jaquet: Professor Emerita of Philosophy] (in French). Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Retrieved 2026-04-02.
- "Centre d'histoire des philosophies modernes de la Sorbonne | Labo - HIPHIMO". centredhistoiredesphilosophiesmodernesdelasorbonne.pantheonsorbonne.fr. Retrieved 2026-04-02.
- "Édouard Louis über seine Mutter: "Die Freiheit einer Frau". Rezension". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 2021-11-11. Retrieved 2026-04-02.
- Jaquet, Chantal; Durand, Jean-Marie (2021). Juste en passant [Just in Passing] (in French). Paris: PUF. ISBN 978-2-13-082782-5.
- "Les transclasses, retour sur un phénomène de société". France Culture (in French). 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
- Faure, Sonya (5 September 2018). "Enquête La lutte des «transclasses»" [Feature: The Struggle of the ‘Transclasses’]. Libération.fr (in French).
- Jaquet, Chantal (1997). Sub Specie aeternitatis. Etude des concepts de temps, durée et éternité chez Spinoza [Sub Specie aeternitatis. A Study of the Concepts of Time, Duration and Eternity in Spinoza] (in French). Paris: Éditions Kimé.
- Jaquet, Chantal (2004). L’unité du corps et de l’esprit. Affects, actions passions chez Spinoza [The Unity of Body and Mind: Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza] (in French). Paris: PUF. ISBN 978-2-13-054204-9.
- Chantal, Jaquet (2001). Le corps [The Body] (in French). Paris: PUF. ISBN 978-2-13-051624-8.
- Jaquet, Chantal (2010). Philosophie de l'odorat [The Philosophy of Smell] (in French). Paris: PUF. ISBN 978-2-13-057914-4.
- Chantal, Jaquet, ed. (2014). L'art olfactif contemporain [La création olfactive]. Proceedings of the symposium "Olfactory Creation" on May 23–24, 2014 (in French). Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier. ISBN 978-2-8124-3551-5.
- Jaquet, Chantal (2021). Le statut des sujets chez Spinoza [The Status of Subjects in Spinoza]. Revue internationale de philosophie (in French). De Boeck Supérieur. pp. 5–17. ISBN 978-2-8073-9437-7.
- Jaquet, Chantal (2014). Les Transclasses ou la Non-Reproduction [The Transclasses, or the Non-Reproduction] (in French). Paris: PUF. ISBN 978-2-130-63182-8.
- Chantal, Jaquet (2023). Transclasses: A theory of Social Non-reproduction. Translated by Elliott, Gregory. London, New York: Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-83976-885-9.