Alain Ehrenberg

Alain Ehrenberg is a French sociologist.

Alain Ehrenberg
Head and shoulders portrait of sitting 60-year-old man in rimless glasses, black suit, and black tee-shirt, with both hands lying on a table.
At Forum Libération 2010 in Rennes.
Born
Paris
NationalityFrench
OccupationSociologist

Author of a PhD thesis of sociology Archangels, warriors, military men and sportsmen. Essay on the education of the strong man in 1978,[1] he subsequently became interested in the anxieties of the individual in modern society, faced with the need for achievement and autonomy and the loss of social signposts and support systems.[2]

After being a researcher at the Edgar Morin Centre at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, Ehrenberg founded and co-directed the research group "Psychotropics, Politics, Society" (Centre de recherche Psychotropes, Santé mentale, Société, aka Cesames). This is a joint research unit of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS - National Centre for Scientific Research) and the University of Paris 5 (René Descartes).[3]

As of 2022 Ehrenberg is a director of research at the CNRS and of Cesames.[4][5]

Works
  • (in collaboration with Jean-Pierre and Patrick Zylberman Yahi) Archangels, warriors, sportsmen and small perverse genesis of competitive sports and fate of physical violence: Policy Analysis of the promoters of the French and Japanese karate, implantation to the institution, 1953-1976, Organizing Committee for applied research on economic and social development, 1977–1980
  • The Military Corps: Politics and Pedagogy in a Democracy, Aubier-Montaigne, 1983
  • The Cult of Achievement, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1991
  • The Uncertain Individual, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1995
  • The Fatigue of being oneself - Depression and society, Odile Jacob, Paris 1998 (reprint pockets Odile Jacob) Ehrenberg, Alain (2000). La fatigue d'être soi : dépression et société. ISBN 2-7381-0859-8.
  • The Uneasy Society, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010

Bibliography
  • PhD thesis supervised by Eugene Henriquez, submitted 1978 at the Paris University X
  • "Depression, illness of autonomy," Ehrenberg interviewed by Michel Botbol in Nervure XVI-3, September 2003

Filmography
  • Nervousness in civilization. From the cult of performance to psychic collapse, Conference Alain Ehrenberg, University of all knowledges, SFRS, Vanves, 2001, 76 '(DVD)

Further reading

References
  1. Ehrenberg, Alain; Enriquez, Eugène. (1978). Archanges, guerriers, militaires, et sportifs - Essai sur l'éducation de l'homme fort (in French).
  2. Marks, John (3 December 2021). "Alain Ehrenberg: Autonomy and empowerment". French Cultural Studies. SAGE Publications. 33 (2): 105–117. doi:10.1177/09571558211063336. ISSN 0957-1558. S2CID 244880343.
  3. "Présentation du Cesames". Cesames en Ligne (in French). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  4. Nicolas, Ariane (9 December 2020). ""The malaise is also a way of living together"". Philonomist (in French). Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  5. "Alain Ehrenberg - La Santé Mentale en France". Cesames en Ligne (in French). 3 September 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
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