Robert Maggiori

Robert Maggiori
Born (1947-04-13) April 13, 1947
Osimo
OccupationsPhilosopher, professor, literary critic, translater
RelativesMark Maggiori (son)
Education
EducationLycée Jacques-Amyot, Melun
Alma materParis-Sorbonne University
Academic advisor
Vladimir Jankélévitch
Philosophical work
EraContemporary Philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
Notable students
Charlotte Casiraghi
Main interests
History of philosophy, Italian philosophy, moral philosophy, political science, public philosophy

Robert Maggiori, born 13 April 1947 in Osimo, is a journalist, literary critic, translator (Italian to French), and philosopher in France.

Biography & education

He completed secondary schooling at Lycée Jacques-Amyot[1] in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), then enrolled at La Sorbonne, where he pursued (but did not finish) a doctorate under the direction of Vladimir Jankélévitch.[2]

Initially appointed to teach at the Lycée André-Malraux in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, then to the Lycée Uruguay-France d'Avon, Seine-et-Marne, in the same department, he began to teach philosophy at the Lycée François-Couperin[3] in Fontainebleau in 1985.

Career

Robert Maggiori is also a journalist at Libération,[3] where he has published literary and philosophical criticism for nearly thirty years. One well-known piece in Libération is an interview of Jacques Derrida by Maggiori on the issue of multiple choice testing.[4]

He contributes to numerous journals (La Pensée, Alfabeta, Le Magazine littéraire, Critique, Les Temps modernes, etc.) and translates Italian works in the humanities.[3] He was a member of the editorial board of Critique and co-director (with Christian Descamps) of the Itinéraires collection at Éditions Flammarion, and later of the collection Philosophie présente, Chez Bordas.[3]

He has translated several works (on political science, phenomenology, anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry) from Italian into French.

He is a member of l'Institut de la pensée contemporaine (Institute of Contemporary Thought) at Paris Diderot University.[3]

Along with Charlotte Casiraghi,[a] Joseph Cohen, and Raphaël Zagury-Orly, he is a founding member of Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco.[3] He is the President of the Jury for the prizes presented annually by the organization also called, for short, PhiloMonaco.[3]

Distinctions

Personal life

He is the father of three adult children, including the French-American artist Mark Maggiori.

Published works

Authors listed only in the case of multiple authors; otherwise the work is by Robert Maggiori alone.

Books

  • Grisoni, Dominique and Maggiori, Robert. Lire Gramsci. Éditions universitaires, 1973. Also published later in Les temps moderne, No 343, February 1975, pp. 879-1062. Digitized on 6 October 2006.[b]
  • "De la convivance: philosophie de la liberté ou philosophie de l'amour?." Éditions Fayard, 1985. ISBN 9782213014302.
  • De la Convivance, Editions Fayard, 1986. ISBN 9782213014302.
  • "La philosophie au jour le jour." Éditions Flammarion, 1994). ISBN 9782080669155.
  • Un animal, un philosophe, Éditions Julliard, 2005. ISBN 2260016863.
  • À la rencontre des philosophes: 100 chroniques de Libération, Bordas, 2005. ISBN 9782047320631.
  • Le métier de critique - Journalisme et philosophie, Éditions Seuil, 2011. ISBN 9782020988001.
  • Maggiori, Robert and Casiraghi, Charlotte. Archipel des Passions. Éditions Seuil. 2018. ISBN 9782021335750.

Periodical works

  • Delacampagne, Christian and Maggiori, Robert, dir., Philosopher. Les interrogations contemporaines, Matériaux pour un enseignement. Reviewed by Maryvonne Roth - 1981 - Philosophy in Review 1 (5):202-206. Republished in later collections. See section on editorial works.
  • Contat, Michel and Maggiori, Robert. Obituary of Simone de Beauvoir. Radical Philosophy O44. Autumn 1986.
  • "Can a Critic be Philosophical?". Le Débat, 1992/5 No 72, 1992. p.231-236.
  • “Philosophy through the Looking Glass.” World Press Review 42 (5): 44. (1995).
  • Etre ou avoir, une question de Fromm. Libération, Paris 19. October 2000, p. XI.
  • Ost in Translation - 5 June 2009. Originally published in Libération, then republished at the link in VoxEurop. (English)
  • Mémoire : de Sartre à Bruno Latour : vies et morts de philosophes contemporains. Librairie philosophique Vrin: Paris. Republished at Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco, 2023.

Prefaces

  • Vladimir Jankélévitch filosofo dell'amore, preface to the Italian edition of Traité des Vertus, Garzanti, Milan, 1987.

Translations

From Italian to French

  • Notes sur Gramsci, by Alfonso Leonetti, EDI, Paris, 1974
  • Pour le communisme : questions de théorie, by Nicola Badaloni, Mouton, La Haye, 1975
  • Analyse en famille, by Maria Marcone, Éditions Payot, Paris, 1979
  • L'Enfant poisson, by Michele Zappella, Paris, Payot, 1979
  • La Mauvaise mère - Phénoménologie et anthropologie de l'infanticide, by Glauco Carloni and Daniela Nobili, Payot, 1977
  • Sexualité et culture, by Franco Fornari, PUF, 1978
  • Qu'est-ce que la psychiatrie ?, by Franco Basaglia, PUF, 1980

Works cited in

  • Mythologies du porc, cited in the bibliography for Walter, Philippe: Le Courrier de l'environnement de l'INRA 37, no. 37 (1999): 103-105.
  • Hottois, Gilbert, Christian Delacampagne, and Robert Maggiori. "Travail et technoscience." (2000). Cited in Silverstein, Marc. (ed.) Matériaux scientifiques et philosophiques pour un matérialisme contemporain. Éditions Matériologiques, 2013.

Editorial work

  • Collection Itinéraires, Éditions Flammarion
  • Collection Philosophie Présente, Chez Bordas (co-edited with Christian Delacampagne)
    • Philosopher. 2014. Éditions Robert Laffont, 2014. Collection Bouquins. ISBN 9782221138496.
    • Philosopher: les interrogations contemporaines : matériaux pour un enseignement. Éditions Fayard, 2000. ISBN 9782213606415.
  • Special issues in the revue Critique, (Éditions de Minuit)

Television

Podcasts

Notes

  1. ^ Casiraghi was his student at Lycée François Couperin de Fontainebleau. She was in his Terminale class. See interview in reference, 1:05.[5]
  2. ^ Preface by Chatelet de François and Maria Antonietta MacCiocchi. 280 pages; Description: 280 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937. Series: Citoyens, 4. 3 Kg.

References

  1. ^ a b "ROBERT MAGGIORI Essai, traduction de l'italien". ACTEURS CULTURELS (in French). Médiathèque départementale de Seine et Marne. 5 June 2026. Archived from the original on 6 June 2026. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  2. ^ Light, Steve (15 May 2018). "Celebrating Philosophy in Monaco". 3:AM Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 May 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Robert Maggiori". PhiloMonaco (in French). Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco. 1 January 2016. Archived from the original on 17 January 2026. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  4. ^ "Critics like philosopher and education proponent Jacques Derrida, said that while the demand for dispensing and checking basic knowledge is valid, there are other means to respond to this need than resorting to crib sheets." Cited in: Wikipedia contributors, "Multiple choice," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multiple_choice&oldid=1351873917 (accessed June 7, 2026). The Wikipedia article on "Multiple choice" cites: Jacques Derrida (1990) pp.334–5 Once Again from the Top: Of the Right to Philosophy, interview with Robert Maggiori for Libération, 15 November 1990, republished in Points (1995).
  5. ^ "Avec Charlotte Casiraghi et Robert Maggiori - L'Info du Vrai du 03/05 – CANAL+". YouTube (in French). L'info du vrai - CANAL+. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  6. ^ "Critique n° 512-513 : Giacomo Leopardi". Les Éditions de Minuit. Revue Critique. 1 January 2024. Archived from the original on 18 November 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  7. ^ "« Archipel des passions » : la rencontre philosophique de Charlotte Casiraghi et Robert Maggiori". YouTube (in French). La Grand Librairie. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2026. Une élève, un professeur, une rencontre. Co-fondateur des « Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco », la célèbre cavalière Charlotte Casiraghi et le philosophe Robert Maggiori ont choisi de mettre par écrit le fruit de leurs échanges, principalement autour du sensible et des frontières entre les émotions, dans « Archipel des passions », aux éditions du Seuil. Un ouvrage écrit à quatre mains.

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