Clément Girardi

Clément Girardi holds an ATER position with the Chair of Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France, and is a doctoral student at the USR 3608 "République des Savoirs" (ENS/CNRS/Collège de France). A former student at the École normale supérieure and agrégé de lettres modernes, he is preparing a thesis on "Henri Bergson et les lettres françaises, 1890-1950" at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Didier Alexandre. The general intention of this work is to reflect on the reasons why a certain number of writers have called themselves Bergsonians, even going so far as to become, in their dialogue with Bergson, philosophers alongside him. It could serve as a starting point for a wider investigation into the reception of Bergson in writing circles, and above all for a reflection on the role of the Bergsonian text in a certain change in the way literature was thought and written in the first half of the twentieth century. Clément Girardi's publications to date include a majority of articles on Charles Péguy, Albert Thibaudet and Jean Paulhan.