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Didier Eribon (b. 1953) is a French author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life. He is considered one of France's leading intellectuals.

Didier Eribon was born July 10, 1953 in Rheims. (Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006). His biography of Michel Foucault (1989), published in English in 1991 has been praised by Pierre Bourdieu, Paul Veyne, Paul Rabinow and Hayden White, among others, and is considered in France, according to Le Monde, as the best biography of Foucault. His 1988 book of interviews with Claude Levi-Strauss came-out in English also in 1991.

Didier Eribon has for years been running a seminar at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley for several years, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has lectured in a great number of countries and, in the U.S., at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Yale University, New York University (NYU), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, among others. He was one of the speakers at the Conference "Foucault in Berkeley. Twenty Years Later", held in Berkeley October 2004, with Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Paul Rabinow, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Lucey, and others.

He is the author of several books already considered as "classics", including his Réflexions sur la question gay in 1999, Une morale du minoritaire in 2001 and, in 2005, the controversial Echapper à la psychanalyse (Escaping Psychoanalysis).

Eribon writes frequently for Le Nouvel Observateur, the famous French weekly magazine in which he reviews books in the fields of philosophy and social sciences. He currently lives in Paris, France.

• Michel Foucault. Trans. Betsy Wing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991.
• Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss, by Claude Levi-Strauss and Didier Eribon, Translated by Paula Wissing. University of Chicago Press, 192 pages. April 1991
• Michel Foucault et ses contemporains (1994).
• Insult and the Making of the Gay Self. (originally Réflexions sur la question gay (1999)) Translated by Michael Lucey. Duke University Press, 440 pages. July 2004
• Papiers d'identité (2000).
• Une morale du minoritaire. Variations sur un thème de Jean Genet (2001)
• Hérésies. Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité (2003)
• Sur cet instant fragile... Carnets, janvier-août 2004 (2004).
• Echapper à la psychanalyse (2005).

• Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. Authors Online Gale homepage