Background
The son of Jean-François Desanti and Marie-Paule Colonna, he was born in Ajaccio and studied the philosophy of mathematics with Jean Cavaillèson
The son of Jean-François Desanti and Marie-Paule Colonna, he was born in Ajaccio and studied the philosophy of mathematics with Jean Cavaillèson
Lycée Thiers.
Also in 1956, he published his Introduction à l"histoire de la philosophie. Desanti taught philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, at the Lycée Lakanal, at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and at the Sorbonne. His students included Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser.
In 1968, he published Les Idéalités mathématiques, recherches épistémologiques sur le développement de la théorie des fonctions de variables réelles.
He died less than three weeks after undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in early 2002 in Paris.
During World World War II, he was a member of the French Resistance, associating with Jean-Paul Sartre and André Malraux.
