Roger Establet Polity (born 1938) is a French scholar of the

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. A student of

Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser w ...

, Establet is an

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University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...

. A student at the

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, and

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at the

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the ...

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, in 1959 he entered the

école normale supérieure An ''école normale supérieure'' () or ENS is a type of publicly funded higher education institution in France. A portion of the student body, admitted via a highly-selective competitive examination process, are French civil servants and are ...

, where he earned degrees in philosophy and sociology. He often collaborates with

Christian Baudelot Christian Baudelot (born 9 December 1938, Paris) is a French sociologist based at the École normale supérieure. Many of his works have been written in collaboration with Roger Establet. Works * (tr. with Pierre Clinquart) ''Anthropologie'' by ...

, a sociologist at the

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education sca ...

. He was involved in Althusser's ''

Reading Capital ''Reading Capital'' (french: Lire le Capital) is a 1965 book about the philosopher Karl Marx's ''Das Kapital'' by the philosophers Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière, the sociologist Roger Establet, and the critic Pierre Ma ...

'' project.

Works

* ''L'École capitaliste en France'', 1970 (with Christian Baudelot) * ''Le niveau monte'' (with Christian Baudelot) * (with Christian Baudelot) ''Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity'' (2008).Review
''

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''. Retrieved 11 June 2013.

References

École Normale Supérieure alumni French sociologists 1938 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Provence French male writers {{France-sociologist-stub