Adèle Van Reeth

Adèle Van Reeth
Adèle Van Reeth in 2013
Director of France Inter
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2022
Preceded by	Laurence Bloch
Personal details
Born	(1982-12-16) 16 December 1982 (age 42) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Domestic partner	Raphaël Enthoven
Children	2
Alma mater	École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud
Profession	Philosopher

Adèle Van Reeth (born 1982) is a French philosopher, radio producer and columnist.

Life

Studies, family

Van Reeth is the only daughter in a family of four children.^[1] She is of Flemish origin by her paternal grandfather. Daughter of an archivist, she moved a lot in her childhood due to her father's assignments.^[2]

When she was 15 she spent one year in New Zealand.^[2] After studying architecture for a few months, she joined a khâgne where she prepared for the entrance exam to the École normale supérieure de Lyon.^[3] Once admitted, she went for the second year of study at the University of Chicago.^[2]

She gave birth to a boy in May 2016.^[4] She had two children with Raphaël Enthoven, Zedig, born in 2016, and Marcel, born in 2021.^[5]

Career

A specialist in film philosophy^[6] former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (promotion 2005)^[7] Van Reeth works and intervenes on the question of the ordinary, based in particular on the work of the philosopher Stanley Cavell.^[8]

While she is eligible for the oral examinations of the philosophy agrégation, she finally prefers to leave this path to work in radio.^[2] Since September 2011, on France Culture, she has been producing and hosting the daily philosophy program Les Nouveaux Chemins de la connaissance alongside Raphaël Enthoven^[9] which was renamed Les Chemins de la philosophie in 2017. In December 2012, this program became the most downloaded show of Radio France,^[10] and maintains this position from time to time.^[11]

After having participated in the show Ça balance à Paris [fr] in 2011 and collaborated on Philosophie magazine [fr] (2010–12), she is a regular columnist for the program Le Cercle, hosted by Frédéric Beigbeder on Canal+ Cinéma.

In March 2014, she launched a series entitled "Questions de Caractère". (co-edition Plon (publisher) / France Culture): she interacts with contemporary philosophers while keeping the spirit and approach of her program. The first volume, co-written with Jean-Luc Nancy, deals with jouissance, a theme on which she has already spoken several times. On December 19, 2017, it was announced that Van Reeth would take over from Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and host the new literary program of Public Sénat, still recorded in the Senate Library,^[12] Livres & Vous.

From September 2018, she hosted the show d'art d'art ! [fr] on France 2.^[13]

As of August 29, 2022, she is the director of France Inter, the leading radio station in the country.^[14]

Publications

• La Jouissance in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2014.
• Réussir le bac philo, under the direction of Adèle Van Reeth, Fayard, 2014.
• La Méchanceté in collaboration with Michaël Fœssel [fr], co-edition Plon / France culture, 2014.
• L’Obstination in collaboration with Myriam Revault d'Allonnes [fr], co-édition Plon / France culture, 2014.
• Le Snobisme in collaboration with Raphaël Enthoven, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2015.
• La Pudeur, in collaboration with Éric Fiat, co-edition Plon / France culture, 2016.
• Questions de caractère (compiles five themes addressed in the program: jouissance, malice, obstinacy, snobbery and modesty)^[15]

See also

• Women in philosophy
• List of women philosophers
• Jean-Luc Nancy

References

1. "Adèle Van Reeth, le goût de la maïeutique". La Croix (in French). 29 December 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
2. Anne Fulda, Adèle Van Reeth, l'éclectique, Le Figaro, insert Le Figaro et vous, Saturday 10 / Sunday 11 March 2018, page 36.
3. "Adèle Van Reeth, philosophe, mais pas star". La Libre Belgique (in French). 28 September 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
4. "Adèle Van Reeth". www.facebook.com (in French). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
5. https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/media/qui-est-adele-van-reeth-la-nouvelle-femme-forte-de-france-inter_825948
6. Adèle Van Reeth Archived 2015-06-11 at the Wayback Machine on France Culture,
7. Décret paru au Journal officiel No 74 du 28 mars 2006.
8. "Interview d'Adèle Van Reeth". Archived from the original on 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
9. Adèle Van Reeth, philosophe, mais pas star by Virginie Roussel in La Libre Belgique (28 September 2014).
10. Chiffres communiqués par Médiamétrie. Archived 2017-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
11. Adèle Van Reeth, le goût de la maïeutique by Aude Carasco in La Croix (29 December 2014).
12. "Adèle van Reeth rejoint Public Sénat en janvier 2018 pour animer le nouveau rendez-vous littéraire de la chaîne | Public Sénat". Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
13. "Frédéric Taddeï écarté de la présentation de "D'Art d'art" sur France 2, la pastille culturelle qu'il présentait depuis son lancement en 2002 | Jean-Marc Morandini".
14. "Avec Adèle van Reeth, France Inter entre à pas feutrés dans une nouvelle ère". Le Monde.fr. 29 August 2022.
15. "Adèle Van Reeth réunit ses entretiens dans un livre". lalettre.pro (in French). 29 November 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019.

External links

• Les Nouveaux chemins de la connaissance on France Culture
• "Adèle Van Reeth, la voix de la philo à la radio". Le Monde.fr (in French). 27 May 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019.