Adèle Van Reeth (born 1982) is a French philosopher, radio producer and columnist.

Adèle Van Reeth
Adèle Van Reeth in 2013
Director of France Inter
Assumed office
August 2022
Preceded byLaurence Bloch
Personal details
Born (1982-12-16) 16 December 1982 (age 41)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Domestic partnerRaphaël Enthoven
Children1
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud
ProfessionPhilosopher

Life edit

Studies, family edit

Van Reeth is the only daughter in a family of four children.[1] She is of Flemish origin by her paternal grandfather. Daughter of an archivist, she moved a lot in her childhood due to her father's assignments.[2]

When she was 15 she spent one year in New Zealand.[2] After studying architecture for a few months, she joined a khâgne where she prepared for the entrance exam to the École normale supérieure de Lyon.[3] Once admitted, she went for the second year of study at the University of Chicago.[2]

She gave birth to a boy in May 2016.[4]

Career edit

A specialist in film philosophy[5] former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (promotion 2005)[6] Van Reeth works and intervenes on the question of the ordinary, based in particular on the work of the philosopher Stanley Cavell.[7]

While she is eligible for the oral examinations of the philosophy agrégation, she finally prefers to leave this path to work in radio.[2] Since September 2011, on France Culture, she has been producing and hosting the daily philosophy program Les Nouveaux Chemins de la connaissance alongside Raphaël Enthoven[8] which was renamed Les Chemins de la philosophie in 2017. In December 2012, this program became the most downloaded show of Radio France,[9] and maintains this position from time to time.[10]

After having participated in the show Ça balance à Paris [fr] in 2011 and collaborated on Philosophie magazine [fr] (2010–12), she is a regular columnist for the program Le Cercle, hosted by Frédéric Beigbeder on Canal+ Cinéma.

In March 2014, she launched a series entitled "Questions de Caractère". (co-edition Plon / France Culture): she interacts with contemporary philosophers while keeping the spirit and approach of her program. The first volume, co-written with Jean-Luc Nancy, deals with jouissance, a theme on which she has already spoken several times. On December 19, 2017, it was announced that Van Reeth would take over from Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and host the new literary program of Public Sénat, still recorded in the Senate Library,[11] Livres & Vous.

From September 2018, she hosted the show d'art d'art ! [fr] on France 2.[12]

As of August 29, 2022, she is the director of France Inter, the leading radio station in the country.[13]

Publications edit

  • La Jouissance in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2014.
  • Réussir le bac philo, under the direction of Adèle Van Reeth, Fayard, 2014.
  • La Méchanceté in collaboration with Michaël Fœssel [fr], co-edition Plon / France culture, 2014.
  • L’Obstination in collaboration with Myriam Revault d'Allonnes [fr], co-édition Plon / France culture, 2014.
  • Le Snobisme in collaboration with Raphaël Enthoven, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2015.
  • La Pudeur, in collaboration with Éric Fiat, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2016.
  • Questions de caractère (compiles five themes addressed in the program: jouissance, malice, obstinacy, snobbery and modesty)[14]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Adèle Van Reeth, le goût de la maïeutique". La Croix (in French). 29 December 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Anne Fulda, Adèle Van Reeth, l'éclectique, Le Figaro, insert Le Figaro et vous, Saturday 10 / Sunday 11 March 2018, page 36.
  3. ^ "Adèle Van Reeth, philosophe, mais pas star". La Libre Belgique (in French). 28 September 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Adèle Van Reeth". www.facebook.com (in French). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  5. ^ Adèle Van Reeth Archived 2015-06-11 at the Wayback Machine on France Culture,
  6. ^ Décret paru au Journal officiel No 74 du 28 mars 2006.
  7. ^ "Interview d'Adèle Van Reeth". Archived from the original on 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  8. ^ Adèle Van Reeth, philosophe, mais pas star by Virginie Roussel in La Libre Belgique (28 September 2014).
  9. ^ Chiffres communiqués par Médiamétrie. Archived 2017-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Adèle Van Reeth, le goût de la maïeutique by Aude Carasco in La Croix (29 December 2014).
  11. ^ "Adèle van Reeth rejoint Public Sénat en janvier 2018 pour animer le nouveau rendez-vous littéraire de la chaîne | Public Sénat". Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  12. ^ "Frédéric Taddeï écarté de la présentation de "D'Art d'art" sur France 2, la pastille culturelle qu'il présentait depuis son lancement en 2002 | Jean-Marc Morandini".
  13. ^ "Avec Adèle van Reeth, France Inter entre à pas feutrés dans une nouvelle ère". Le Monde.fr. 29 August 2022.
  14. ^ "Adèle Van Reeth réunit ses entretiens dans un livre". lalettre.pro (in French). 29 November 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019.

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