CEPEL

Gilles MOUTOT

Career history

  • Since 2014: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) at the University of Montpellier.
  • 2004–2014: PRAG at the University of Montpellier 2 (IUFM, later the Faculty of Education / ESPE).
  • 1996–2004: High school philosophy teacher (1996–1999 / 2002–2004); Assistant Professor at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (1999–2002).

Diploma

  • Doctoral dissertation in philosophy.
  • Participation in research projects:
    • “Health and Social Vulnerability: Studies in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood” (CEPEL / Department of Social and Human Sciences in Medicine).
  • Administrative responsibilities, research, and outreach:
    • PACES Exam Committee (first year of the joint health sciences program).
    • Coordination ofTU Ethics and Care Relationships” in the Master’s program “Chronic Diseases and Society” (M2).

Books

  • Case Studies
    • Essay on Adorno, Payot, “Critique of Politics” series, 2010 (656 pages).
    • Adorno. Language and Reification, PUF, “Philosophies” series, 2004 (128 pages); Spanish translation: Adorno. Lenguaje y reificación, trans. V. Ackerman, Buenos Aires, Ediciones Nueva Visión, 2005.
  • Translations
    • Rudolf Arnheim, *Radio*, translated from German in collaboration with Lambert Barthélémy and Martin Kaltenecker, Van Dieren Publishers, “Music” series, 2005 (272 pages).
    • Theodor W. Adorno, *Words of the Stranger and Other Essays: Notes on Literature II*, translated (from German and English) and annotated in collaboration with Lambert Barthélémy, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2004 (295 pages).

The 5 most representative articles

  • With Jean-Pierre Véran: “You said: ‘Implement the principle of secularism in an ethical and responsible manner?’” ,” in Geneviève Zoïa and Gilles Moutot (eds.),Secularism, Education, Diversity, Tréma journal, No. 37, IUFM of the Montpellier Academy, University of Montpellier 2, April 2012, pp. 23–40.
  • “Adorno and the Myth of the Given: Knowledge, Experience, Society,” in Alexandre Dupeyrix, Stéphane Haber, and Emmanuel Renault (eds.),*Adorno philosophe*, *Philosophie* journal, no. 113, Éditions de Minuit, Spring 2012, pp. 58–78.
  • “‘Doing things we don’t know what they are.’ Aesthetics and Criticism According to Adorno,” in Évelyne Grossman, Jérémie Majorel, Martin Rueff, Élisa Sclaunick (eds.),The Faculties of Judgment. Critique and Truth, Textuel journal, no. 64, Paris Diderot-Paris 7 University, September 2011, pp. 71–80.
  • “Traces: A Critique of the Enlightenment and the ‘Time of Ghosts’ in Adorno,”in Cahiers d’études lévinassiennes, no. 9, 2010, pp. 77–130.
  • “L’Équipée lente: Roland Barthes and Theodor W. Adorno, Imaginary Readers of Jean Echenoz,” in Gérard Siary (ed.),*La Lenteur*, *La Manchette* (journal of comparative literature), no. 1, Spring 2000, published by Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University Press, pp. 197–232.