Christian Nadeau | Université de Montréal (original) (raw)

Born in 1969, Christian Nadeau teaches the history of political ideas, moral philosophy, and contemporary political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Université de Montréal. Following studies at UQÀM, he defended his thesis in political philosophy (December 2000) at the Université de Paris-X (Nanterre), under the supervision of Francine Markovits (“Le lien civil. Morale publique, obéissance et gouvernement à l’âge classique: Bodin, Charron et Jean de Silhon” [The civil bond: Public morality, obedience, and government in the classical period: Bodin, Charron and Jean de Silhon]). Following postdoctoral research on neorepublicanism at the Department of Philosophy of the Université de Montréal, he became a professor there in 2002. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in France (École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Lyon, 2005; Université de Paris-I Sorbonne: 2006; Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre: 2008; and Université Lyon III: 2009).

His research focuses on the history of political ideas from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century (Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, and Hobbes, as well as civic humanism and the republican tradition since the Renaissance). He also pursues research in moral philosophy on the question of collective responsibility and on consequentialist theories. En political philosophy, he has been working for a number of years on transitional justice and on theories of deliberative democracy. This work takes the form of a political philosophy of institutions, an approach which recently led him to examine the conflict between solidarity and corruption. In addition to his writings on immigration and on the problems of environmental justice, he is currently preparing a book on justice after war (jus post bellum), a monograph on Jean Bodin’s La République, and two essays: Droits et libertés. Une défense philosophique [Rights and liberties: A philosophical defence] and Culture et politique. Réflexions pour une esthétique de la résistance [Culture and politics: Reflections towards an aesthetics of resistance]. Since May 2010 he has been editor of the journal Philosophiques; and together with Bruno Bernardi, he is co-editor PolitiqueS, a journal published by Classiques Garnier. He was also the coordinator of the État des lieux de la philosophie; this event, which took place in November 2012, will serve as the basis for a collective publication laying out the institutional situation of philosophy in Quebec.

In addition to his academic research, Christian Nadeau has authored several essays aimed at a general audience: Liberté, égalité, solidarité. Refonder la démocratie et la justice sociale [Liberty, equality, solidarity: Rebuilding democracy and social justice on new foundations], Boréal, 2013; Contre Harper. Bref traité philosophique sur la révolution conservatrice [Against Haper: A brief philosophical treatise on the conservative revolution], Boréal, 2010; and, with Martin Blanchard, Cul-de-sac. L’impasse de la voiture en ville, [Dead end: The impasse of the car in the city], Héliotrope, 2007.

As an activist for social justice and democracy, Christian Nadeau often contributes to newspapers and appears on radio and television. On many occasions he has given talks and led assemblies for union organizations (CSN, FTQ, APTS, etc.). Since 2015 he is the president of the Ligue des droits et libertés du Québec.

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