Luc Foisneau

Luc Foisneau, research director at the CNRS (Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies), teaches political philosophy at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His work focuses on modern political philosophy and contemporary theories of justice. He has published Hobbes and la toute-puissance de Dieu (Paris, Puf, 2000; awarded by the 2001 Prize of the Association of Professors and Lecturers of Sciences Po Paris) and directed The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers (New York/London, Thoemmes Continuum, 2008, 2 vols., 1314 p.), as well as the expanded French version of this same work, the Dictionnaire des philosophes français du 17e siècle : acteurs et réseaux du savoir (in coll., Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015, 2 vols., 2144 p.). He co-edited Spheres of Global Justice: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy: Political Participation, Minorities and Migrations (Dordrecht, Springer, 2013) and Leviathan after 350 Years (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2004). He translated and commented on John Rawls, Justice et critique (in coll., Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2014).
He published Hobbes. La vie inquiète (Paris, Gallimard, 2016, 624 p.).