Critique de la raison précaire. La vie intellectuelle face à l’obligation de l’extraordinaire

Abstract

In this essay, which has had a significant reception in Spain, the philosopher Javier López Alós seeks to understand how precariousness affects academics in their subjectivities, their work, but also in their socio-professional organization. Combining the analysis of the emotional regime with that of the material conditions of academia, Javier López Alós offers a luminous analysis of an academic field increasingly devoured by precariousness. We offer here the first translation in French language of a large part of the introduction to the book, where the author sets out the main issues of his reflection, as well as of the sixth chapter, which, by raising the question of the curriculum vitae, highlights the deleterious effects of precariousness on the possibility of constructing a narrative and a broad research thread.

Keywords

• philosophy
• materialism
• university
• precariousness
• subjectivity