Gérard Raulet

Gérard Raulet (9 August 1949) is a French philosopher, Germanist, and translator, specializing primarily in the thought of Herbert Marcuse and Ernst Bloch.

Raulet studied at Saint-Cloud École Normale Superieure (graduated in 1969), qualified German teacher (1973), Doctor of Philosophy (1981) and State Doctor of Humanities (1985). He had held different offices at the Paris-Sorbonne University from 1975 to 1987 before becoming professor at the university of University of Rennes 2 in 1987. He then taught at the university of Paris-XII before rejoining the ENS-LSH, followed by the one from Saint-Cloud. From 1981 to 1999, he also oversaw the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme "Research Group on the Culture of Weimar".

A prolific author, Raulet has devoted several works to German philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, Max Scheler, Karl Marx. He is also the author of publications on the culture of Weimar and German political philosophy. He is the translator of the article by Jürgen Habermas called "The Enlightenment, an unfinished project" in response to the postmodernist criticism, on which Raulet himself worked. His latest work focuses on philosophical anthropology and the history of German philosophy after 1945.