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Frédéric Worms (b. 1964, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) is a philosopher and professor of contemporary philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). He became deputy director in September 2015 and director in March 2021.[1]
He is also the director of the Centre International D'étude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine, and a member of the Comité Consultatif National D'éthique.
Frédéric Worms graduated from École Normale Supérieure in 1982, and from the agrégation in philosophy in 1986.
In 1995, he defended a thesis at Blaise Pascal University entitled "Le problème de l'esprit : psychologie, théorie de la connaissance et métaphysique dans l'œuvre de Bergson ",[2] under the supervision of Jean-Claude Pariente. He received his habilitation to direct research, published under the title "Bergson ou les deux sens de la vie[3]" in 2004, and became a university professor of philosophy first at Lille III University, then at the ENS in Paris, in 2013.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Essex, the University of California at Los Angeles, Ritsumeikan University, and the University of Chicago.
Frédéric Worms' work is organized along two axes. He is particularly interested in the history of philosophy, and is a specialist in the work of Henri Bergson. He has developed a general hypothesis for the history of philosophy, the notion of the "moment", applied in particular to the diversity of 20th-century French philosophy.
His research also focuses on the vital and moral relationships between people, as well as their ruptures and violations, from metaphysics to morality and politics, a perspective he has applied in particular to the question of care in all its dimensions.
The convergences between these two fields are theoretical (philosophy of life and relations between the living), historical (a hypothesis on the present moment as a "moment of the living") and practical (vital, moral and political relations).
At Lille-III University, he created the "Ethics of Living Things" master's program in 2007, which he directed until 2013.
From 2012 to 2014 he was director of USR 3308 Cirphles (ENS/CNRS). Since 2004, he has been director of the Centre International D'étude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine (CIEPFC), part of the "République des savoirs : Lettres, Sciences Philosophie" research team (UMR 3608 ENS/CNRS/Collège de France), of which he was deputy director.
He is a member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (2013)[4][5]
He is a specialist in the work of Henri Bergson, he is an honorary president of the Société Des Amis De Bergson, which he founded in 2006. He is co-author, with Philippe Soulez, of a biography of the philosopher, and has published several works on his thought. He edited the first critical edition of Bergson's works published by Presses Universitaires de France (2007-2012)[6], which brings together all Bergson's works, correspondence, lectures and unpublished lessons. With this publisher, he edited the Annales Bergsoniennes and currently directs the "Questions de soin "[7] and "Philosophie française contemporaine "[8] collections. He is co-editor of the journal Bergsoniana.
Since 2018[9] 9, he has produced the programs Le pourquoi du comment, Matières à penser and À présent on France Culture.
Frédéric Worms is the son of Gérard Worms, former Vice-Chairman of Rothschild Europe, and Michèle Rousseau.[10]
He is married to Anne-Lise Darras, agrégée de lettres classiques, daughter of poet Jacques Darras[ref. needed].
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