1. Didier Eribon was born on 10 July 1953 and is a French author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life.
11 Facts About Didier Eribon
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Didier Eribon was born in Reims into a working-class family.
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Didier Eribon was the first in his family to finish secondary education.
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Didier Eribon credits his mother with helping him achieve this; a factory worker, she had to work overtime to be able to pay for his education.
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Didier Eribon is professor at the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University of Amiens.
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Didier Eribon has been running a seminar at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris for several years.
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Didier Eribon has been visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley for several years, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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Didier Eribon is the author of several books, including his Reflexions sur la question gay, Une morale du minoritaire, and Echapper a la psychanalyse.
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Didier Eribon wrote frequently for Le Nouvel Observateur, a French weekly magazine.
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Didier Eribon reviewed books in the fields of philosophy and social sciences.
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Didier Eribon has been in a relationship with Geoffroy de Lagasnerie since 2001.