Born in 1944, Arnaud Villani is a French philosophy professor, with an “agrégé” in philosophy and classical languages – and poet. His first book was about Kafka, L’ouverture de l’existant (1984). After that, he devoted himself to the works of Gilles Deleuze, with La guêpe et l’orchidée (1999), Le Vocabulaire de Gilles Deleuze (2003) and Logique de Deleuze (2013). He has also published Précis de philosophie nue (2005), Petites meditations sur la vie et la mort (2008) and Court traité du rien (2009. He has co-translated the works of British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and Parménides, with Parménide, le Poème, traduction et commentaire and Porménide ou la denomination (2011).
Arnaud Villani
Philosopher