Jean-Marie Vincent
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| Jean-Marie Vincent | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 March 1934[1] Nancy [1] |
| 💀Died | 6 April 2004[1] Paris6 April 2004[1] |
| 🏫 Education | Paris 8 University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Notable work | Critique du travail. Le faire et l'agir (PUF, 1987) |
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Jean-Marie Vincent was a French moral and political philosopher and political scientist. He was born on 6 March 1934, in Nancy, France. He died on 6 April 2004 in Paris.
Biography
His undergraduate education was obtained at the old University of Paris, then he obtained a doctorate from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) where he defended a thesis under the direction of Alfred Grosser. Around the time of the reorganization of the Paris-Sorbonne University system after the May 68 protests, he was deeply involved at what had newly become Paris 8 University, a key figure in the establishment their political science department,[2][3][4] and he remained there until he retired in 2002.[5] For several years he served as Vice-President of the Council for Academic and Student Affairs at that university.[5]
Research
He based his work on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School.[1][5] He authored the book introducing the "critical theory" of the Frankfurt School in its relationship to Marxism to Francophone readers.[2][lower-alpha 1][6] Vincent developed his own conceptual framework, notably in "Critique du travail" (PUF, 1987). His original position emerges through his discussion of major thinkers in works such as "Max Weber ou la démocratie inachevée" (Le Félin, 1998) and "Marx après les marxismes" (L'Harmattan, 1997).
He was a young member of the Unified Socialist Party (France)[7] and involved in the Tribune Socialiste with André Gorz.[8] Gorz spoke about his longtime working relationship with Vincent after the latter's death in 2004, recalling specifically the early 1960s when Vincent strongly influenced him and was, indeed, a "driving force" in the PSU and the Tribune Socialiste where Gorz also worked.[8] Gorz credits Vincent as one of the first in France to change the academic conversations on socialism (a time when Western Marxism tended to focus on the 1844 Manuscripts) by turning their attention to the Grundrisse,[9] a text Gorz says remained fundamental to Vincent's thinking.[8]
At the same time, Vincent also became a specialist on German sociology, especially Max Weber, and also on Italian theoretical Marxism, i.e. Lucio Colletti and Galvano Della Volpe.[8][7] The latter led him to fetishism as a lens through which to interpret Das Kapital,[10] which Gorz says kept him from the "pitfalls of Althussérien theory."[8]
Vincent founded the journal Variations in 2000.[4]
Published works (selected)
Books
- Fétichisme et société, Paris, Anthropos, 1973. Republished posthumously: Paris, Éditions Critiques, 2020.
- La théorie critique de l'École de Francfort, Paris, Éditions Galilée, 1976
- Les mensonges de l'État, Paris, Le Sycomore, 1979
- Critique du travail. Le faire et l'agir, Paris, PUF, 1987 ; rééd. Paris, Éditions Critiques, 2019.
- Abstract labour: a critique. Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. (doi:10.1007/978-1-349-21744-1).
- Marx après les marxismes, L'Harmattan, 1997, 2 volumes. The text " Marx l'obstiné " by Jean-Marie Vincent is founded in Volume 1.
- Max Weber ou la démocratie inachevée, Paris, Le Félin, 1998 (réédition en 2009)
- Un autre Marx, Lausanne, Page deux, 2001
Articles
- "La légende du travail." La liberté du travail, Éditions Syllepse, Paris (1995): 71-82.
- “Le Désenchantement Du Monde: Max Weber et Walter Benjamin.” Revue Européenne Des Sciences Sociales 33, no. 101 (1995): 95–106.
- “Max Weber et La Constellation Du Matérialisme Historique.” Actuel Marx, no. 11 (1992): 67–81.
- "La domination du travail abstrait." Critique de l’économie politique 1 (1977): 19-49.
- "The PCF and its history." New Left Review 1, no. 52 (1969): 39-46.
- "Le capitalisme selon Weber." L'Homme et la Société 4, no. 1 (1967): 61-77.
Co-authored works
- Vincent, Jean-Marie, Joachim Hirsch, and Margaret Wirth. L'État contemporain et le marxisme. F. Maspero, 1975.
- Cohen, Jim, and Jean-Marie Vincent. Abstract Labour: a Critique. Springer Publishing, 1991.
- Vers un nouvel anticapitalisme, (with Michel Vakaloulis et Pierre Zarka), Paris, Le Félin, 2003
- Sciences sociales et engagement, with Alexander Neumann (dir.), Paris, Éditions Syllepse, 2003.
- La Postérité de l'École de Francfort, with Alain Blanc (dir.), Paris, Syllepse, coll. "Variations", 2004. ISBN 2847970762 Search this book on .
Notes
- ↑ From Hemmens (2019): "He was, moreover, one of the first to introduce the French speaking public to the foundations of these debates in The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School." Hemmens cites Vincent's own work here: Galilée, 1976.
Works cited
- Hemmens, Alastair. The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought. From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord. Chapter Six: "The New Spirit of Capitalism and the Critique of Work in France Since May ’68." P.167-192, Springer Publishing, 2019. URL.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lubitz, Wolfgang; Lubitz, Petra (2004). "Jean-Marie Vincent" (pdf). Trotskyana. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hemmens, Alastair (2019). "The New Spirit of Capitalism and the Critique of Work in France Since May '68". Consacré aux écrits de Jean-Marie Vincent (1934-2004). Springer Publishing. p. 167-192. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
Jean-Marie Vincent is an important figure in the history of the development of a categorical critique of labour in France. Vincent was an academic who founded the political science department at Paris VIII university.
- ↑ Hemmens, Alastair (26 April 2019). "The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought". Google Books. Springer Publishing. p. 226. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Variations Hiver 2011" [Variations Winter 2011]. Revue internationale theorie critique (in French). Les éditions Parangon. 2011. Archived from the original on 2 February 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
Sans parler des inédits de Jean-Marie Vincent, fondateur de Variations et du département de science politique de l’Université Vincennes, qui était le premier à faire connaître les idées torrides de « l’Ecole de Francfort » à un public français plus large. Notre septième numéro (dirigé par Lucia Sagradini et Jan Spurk) a exclusivement porté sur le débat international concernant la Théorie critique.
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- ↑ RODIER, Clément. “HABERMAS CONTRE L’ÉCOLE DE FRANCFORT.” Actuel Marx, no. 71 (2022): 131–46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48842463.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Adréani, Tony, and JRC. “Jean-Marie Vincent: In Memoriam.” Mientras Tanto, no. 90 (2004): 111–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27820741.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Willy Gianinazzi, « Vivre une vie qui ne se vit pas. Quand Jean-Marie Vincent et André Gorz débattaient de valeur et subjectivité (2000-2002) », Variations [En ligne], 17 | 2012, mis en ligne le 15 octobre 2012, consulté le 09 août 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/variations/354 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/variations.354
- ↑ Fourel, Christophe, and Françoise Gollain. André Gorz: Thinker of Emancipation. 2014.
- ↑ Jean-Marie Vincent, « Le fétiche travail et son empire : la critique de l’économie comme critique de la forme valeur ? », Variations [En ligne], 24 | 2021, mis en ligne le 03 juillet 2021, consulté le 10 août 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/variations/2043 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/variations.2043
Further reading
- Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism. Brill Publishers, 2007. ISBN 9789004145986 Search this book on ..
- Sanmartino, Jorge Orovitz, Alberto Rosé, Melisa Demetrio, and Manuel Gorini, eds. “¿QUIÉN ES EL ESTADO?” In Nicos Poulantzas: Escritos de Teoría y Política : Textos Inéditos. Prometeo Editorial, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.41480193.19. (Interview with Jean-Marie Vincent, Nicos Poulantzas, and Guy Perrin in the Spanish language.)
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