Alain Etchegoyen (6 November 1951,
Lille
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– 9 April 2007,
Le Mans
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), was a philosopher and novelist. He was the last
Plan Commission
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History
The idea of the Commission came from exchanges between Charles de Gaulle and Jean Monnet. It was established by De ...
ner before that Commission was abrogated. He wrote some twenty books, essays and novels.
A former student of l'
École Normale Supérieure
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, he was a professor in
classes prépas at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and in a
professional lycée in
Hauts-de-Seine
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.
Career
Etchegoyen started his career (1979–1982) in
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
, then went to the Industry and Research Ministry (1982–1984), before working in the Plan Commission (1984–1985).
In 1985, Etchegoyen founded the Association de l'édition du Corpus des textes philosophiques de langue française. In the middle of the 1980s, he created a consulting company, with
Michelin
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among its customers. At the end of the 1980s, he led the takeover of the
faience
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maker Géo Martel. In the middle of the 1990s, he became administrator of
Usinor-Sacilor (now part of
Arcelor
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).
Books
*''L'Entreprise a-t-elle une âme?'' (1990)
*''La Valse des éthiques'' (
Prix Médicis
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*''Eloge de la communication insupportable'' (1992)
*''La Démocratie malade du mensonge'' (1993), couronné du Grand prix de l'Académie française.
*''Vérités ou libertés, la justice expliquée aux adultes'' (2001)
*''Votre devoir est de vous taire'' (2005)
*''Meurtre à la virgule près'' (2007)
References
* "Alain Etchegoyen, philosophe et essayiste",
LeMonde.fr, 11 April 2007.
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