Georges-Elia Sarfati | |
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| Born | 20 October 1957 |
| Awards | Louise Labé Prize (2002) |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Judah Halevi, Yisroel Salanter, Elyahu Eliezer Dessler, Martin Buber, Edmund Husserl, Gunther Anders, Emmanuel Lévinas, Joseph Gabel, Viktor Frankl, Pierre Hadot, Shlomo Pines, Antonio Gramsci, Gaston Bouthoul, Léon Poliakov, Gustave Guillaume, John-Langshaw Austin, Jean-Pierre Faye, Oswald Ducrot. |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Jewish philosophy, phenomenology of life, social philosophy. |
| Main interests | Ethics, hermeneutics, historical criticism, discourse analysis, poetics. |
| Notable works | Discours ordinaire et identités juives, La tradition éthique du judaïsme, Tessiture. |
| Notable ideas | Negative judeocentrism, doxopathy, semiotherapy |
| Website | http://georgeseliasarfati.com |
Georges-Elia Sarfati is a philosopher, linguist, poet, and an existentialist psychoanalyst, author of written works in the domains of ethics, Jewish thought, social criticism, and discourse analysis. He has translated Viktor E. Frankl. He is the grand-nephew of the sociologist Gaston Bouthoul.