CEPEL

Gilles MOUTOT

Career history

  • Since 2014: Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) at the University of Montpellier.
  • 2004-2014: Adjunct professor at Montpellier 2 University (IUFM then 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 thesis in philosophy.
  • Participation in research projects:
    • "Health and social vulnerability: investigations in a disadvantaged neighborhood" (CEPEL / Department of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine).
  • Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion:
    • PACES jury (first year common to health studies).
    • Coordination ofTU Ethics and Care Relationships"TU for the Master's degree in "Chronic Diseases and Society" (M2).

Books

  • Monographs
    • Essay on Adorno, Payot, coll. "Critique of Politics," 2010 (656 pages).
    • Adorno. Language and Reification, PUF, coll. "Philosophies," 2004 (128 pages); Spanish translation: Adorno. Lenguaje y reificación, trans. V. Ackerman, Buenos Aires, Ediciones Nueva Visión, 2005.
  • Translations
    • Rudolf Arnheim, Radio, translation (German) in collaboration with Lambert Barthélémy and Martin Kaltenecker, ed. Van Dieren, coll. "Musique," 2005 (272 pages).
    • Theodor W. Adorno, Words from Abroad and Other Essays. Notes on Literature II, translation (German and English) and notes in collaboration with Lambert Barthélémy, published by Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2004 (295 pages).

The 5 most representative articles

  • With Jean-Pierre Véran: "You said: 'Implementing 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, Montpellier 2 University, 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 Philosopher, Philosophy Review, 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.),Les Facultés de juger. Critique and Truth, Textuel journal, no. 64, Paris Diderot University-Paris 7, September 2011, pp. 71-80.
  • "Traces. Critique of the Enlightenment and '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, comparative literature journal La Manchette, no. 1, spring 2000, published by Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, pp. 197-232.