Background
He was born in Decize, Nievre in 1962.
He was born in Decize, Nievre in 1962.
After high school, Crépon completed a preparatory course at Lycee Condorcet in Paris. He then attended the Ecole Normale Superieure and passed the agrégation in 1986, a French civil service exam for positions in public education.
He has also translated works by philosophers such as Nietzsche, Franz Rosenzweig and Leibzig. He is chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure and director of research at the Archives Husserl, National Center for Scientific Research. The topic of his dissertation (written in French) was The problem of human diversity: survey on the characterization of the people and the constitution of geographies of spirit from Leibniz to Hegel (1995).
Crépon"s first academic position was teaching philosophy at Nanterre University.
Shortly after this, he moved to Moldova for a period and credits living and working in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics with developing many of his attitudes and pedagogical methods. At this time, he also developed an interest in the relationship between political and linguistic communities, which he would go on to research in greater detail.
He has traveled and lectured at American universities, including University of California, Irvine and Rice University. Crépon also taught classes while in residence at Northwestern University in Chicago in 2006 and in 2008.