Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine

male, 84 years old
Alain Touraine is a French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, wh...
Michel Wieviorka

Michel Wieviorka

male, 63 years old
Michel Wieviorka (born 23 August, 1946, Paris) is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the...
Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff

male, 85 years old
Jacques Le Goff is a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. A prolific medievalist of...
Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

male, deceased (2006)
Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (Paris, July 23 1930 - Nice, July 29, 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the "Ecole des Hautes Etudes...
Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro

male
Marc Ferro is a French historian. He has worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia, the USSR as...
Marcel Gauchet

Marcel Gauchet

male, 63 years old
Marcel Gauchet (born 1946, Poilley (Manche), France) is a French historian, philosopher and sociologist. Gauchet is professor at the Centre de...
Maurice Godelier

Maurice Godelier

male, 75 years old
Born in Cambrai, France in 1934, Maurice Godelier is one of the most influential names in French anthropology. "Directeur d'études" at the École de...
Cornelius Castoriadis

Cornelius Castoriadis

male, deceased (1997)
Cornelius Castoriadis (March 11 1922-December 26 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary...
Jean-Claude Schmitt

Jean-Claude Schmitt

male, 63 years old
Jean-Claude Schmitt (born March 4 1946 in Colmar) is a prominent French medievalist, the former student of Jacques Le Goff. He studies the...
Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet

male, 66 years old
Ignacio Ramonet (born May 5, 1943, Redondela (Galicia) is a Spanish journalist and writer. He is the editor-in-chief of "Le Monde diplomatique"...