Reflections on Man

This book is available in French only.

An anthropologist and essayist, Jean-Luc Lamotte was the first to devote himself to bringing Jean Gagnepain’s thought to a wide audience — a body of thought that thoroughly renews the human sciences, across all fields and disciplines, leading to the development of a truly new anthropology.

This anthropology also makes it possible to shed a completely new and fascinating light on the “problems of our time” — education, drug addiction, beliefs, freedom, equity and more.

Finally, this transcription of twenty talks given by the author to non-specialist audiences makes the work as engaging and easy to read as was, in its time, the “Introduction to the Theory of Mediation”, which he published in 2001 with a preface by Jean Gagnepain.

Agrégé in classical literature, Jean-Luc Lamotte first taught linguistics at the École Supérieure des Lettres in Beirut, University of Lyon, then taught for ten years in preparatory classes for the entrance examinations to the Écoles normales supérieures, first in Montpellier and then in Versailles.

His career also led him to serve the dissemination of the French language and culture abroad, in the Middle East, Morocco and the United Kingdom.

He also had the honour of contributing to the work of the publications department of the Académie française.

Since 1991, he has devoted himself to his research in clinical anthropology, conducted within the activities of the Rennes School, University of Haute-Bretagne.