Career
Director, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Researcher, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques.
Director, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Researcher, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques.
Main publications:
(1980) ‘Anthropologie et anthropomorphisme (Heidegger lecteur de Schelling)’, in Nachdenken über Heidegger, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg.
(1983) ‘Phénoménologie et science de l’être', in M. Haar (ed. ), Cahiers de ¡'Herne Martin Heidegger, Paris: Herne.
(1988) (with others) Du Sublime, Paris: Belin (English translation, Of the Sublime: Presence in Question, trans. J. Librett, Albany: State University of New York, 1993).
( 1989) ‘Voice of conscience and call of being’, in Topoil: 101 9.
( 1990) Extase de la raison: essais sur Schelling, Paris: Galilée.
(1990) Heidegger et la phénoménologie, Paris: Vrin.
( 1990) Suarez et le système de la métaphysique, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Jean-François Courtine is a Heideggerian scholar. He brings a powerful exegesis of Heidegger’s work to bear on wider questions in German idealism, phenomenology and metaphysics. Thus, Courtine works through the Heideggerian critique of Husserl's phenomenology as science (1983) to elucidate the prior position of philosophy with respect to science and to counter the definition of philosophy as science in phenomenology and German idealism.
A similar close reading of Heidegger is deployed on the question of the metaphysics of subjectivity in order to prepare for a study of the relation of language and death(1989).