Jean-François Kervégan
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Jean-François Kervégan | |
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| Born | December 5, 1950 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 (PhD) |
| Thesis | Dialectique et positivité : Hegel, Carl Schmitt et l'effectivité du politique (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Bourgeois |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Jean-François Kervégan (born December 5, 1950 in Algiers), is a French philosopher of law.[1]
An alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud (promotion L1972),[2] agrégé (1975)[3] and Doctor d'État in philosophy (1990),[4] he has been Emeritus Professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne Université since 2019, where he created the NoSoPhi (Normes, Sociétés, Philosophies) research group; he is an honorary senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.[5]
A member of various learned societies and the scientific bodies of numerous French and foreign journals, he is, with Olivier Beaud, editor of the Bibliothèque de la pensée juridique published by Classiques Garnier.[6]
Research areas
Jean-François Kervégan's work lies at the intersection of three fields: classical German philosophy (with Hegel and Kant as privileged objects), political philosophy (theory of the state and sovereignty, politics and conflictuality) and philosophy of law (theory of normativity, relations between legal normativity and ethics).
After initial academic work devoted to Husserl and Hegel's Logic, as well as to the confrontation between Hegel's political thought and that of Carl Schmitt, for over twenty years he dedicated himself to the study of the legal, social and political philosophy of German idealism, with a particular interest in Hegel, but also in Kant.
In the field of political philosophy, Kervégan is interested in the fate of concepts such as the state, sovereignty, democracy and human rights. Beyond the historical aspects of this questioning, the aim is to reflect on the non-state figures of the political that have developed in the contemporary world, such as terrorism, and what they can mean for a thinking of the political that remains attached to the achievements of modernity, without being blind to what can bend or undermine its emancipatory project.
In the field of legal philosophy, he focuses on the status of legal normativity. After reflecting on how Kant's and Hegel's reflections on normativity (“practical reason”) can inform the contemporary (post-Kelsenian, analytic) debate on legal theory and help resolve some of its difficulties, he has been devoting himself to the theory of rights for the past ten years.[7][8]
