Background
Marin, Louis Aimé was born on May 22, 1931 in La Tronche, Isère, France. Son of Marin Augustin and Milhaud Fernande.
Marin, Louis Aimé was born on May 22, 1931 in La Tronche, Isère, France. Son of Marin Augustin and Milhaud Fernande.
Licence in philosophie, University Paris Sorbonne, 1952. Agrégation in philosophie, University Paris Sorbonne, 1953. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Paris Sorbonne, 1973.
He is usually referred to as a French post-structuralistic thinker. His degree was followed in 1953 with an Agrégé in Philosophy and with a Docteur d"Etat in 1973. Marin taught at the University of Nanterre, Paris from 1967 to 1970, the University of California, San Diego from 1970 to 1974, Johns Hopkins University from 1974 to 1977, and finally at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1977 to 1992.
He was also an Associate of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University from 1985 until his death in 1992 in Paris.
Marin was widely known for his work in a variety of areas: linguistics, semiotics, theology, philosophy, anthropology, rhetoric, art and institutional history and literary theory. Throughout his career, Marin"s main intellectual focus was seventeenth-century French literature, particularly the works of Blaise Pascal, Perrault, Nicolas Poussin and Philippe de Champaigne.
In addition, he published numerous articles on the visual arts and religious texts. Education
1950 Admission to the Ecole Normale Superieure 2
1952 Degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne
1953 Aggregation of Philosophy
1973 Doctorate of State
1961–1964 Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Turkey
1964–1967 Director of the French Institute in London
1967–1970 Professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre and the EBU of Plastic Arts of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne
1970–1974 University of San Diego, California
1974–1977 Professor of French Literature at the Johns Hopkins University
1978 Director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales )
1987 Director of the Centre for the Arts and language École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales -National Center for Scientific Research
Works
Marin has written on the following topics:
Signs of power, authority signs
Semiology of painting
Autobiography
Influence
Still, his classes and his work have exerted a profound influence on certain historians (Christian Jouhaud), art historians (Daniel Arasse), and literary historians (Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Joan DeJean).
Married Françoise M. Stoullig. Children: Anne, Frederique, Judith.