Robert Maggiori, born 13 April 1947 in Osimo, is a journalist, literary critic, translator (Italian to French), and philosopher in France.

Biography & education He completed secondary schooling at Lycée Jacques-Amyot in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), then enrolled at La Sorbonne, where he pursued (but did not finish) a doctorate under the direction of Vladimir Jankélévitch.

Initially appointed to teach at the Lycée André-Malraux in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, then to the Lycée Uruguay-France d'Avon, Seine-et-Marne, in the same department, he began to teach philosophy at the Lycée François-Couperin in Fontainebleau in 1985.

Career Robert Maggiori is also a journalist at Libération, where he has published literary and philosophical criticism for nearly thirty years. One well-known piece in Libération is an interview of Jacques Derrida by Maggiori on the issue of multiple choice testing."Critics like philosopher and education proponent Jacques Derrida, said that while the demand for dispensing and checking basic knowledge is valid, there are other means to respond to this need than resorting to crib sheets." Cited in: Wikipedia contributors, "Multiple choice," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multiple_choice&oldid=1351873917 (accessed June 7, 2026). The Wikipedia article on "Multiple choice" cites: Jacques Derrida (1990) pp.334–5 Once Again from the Top: Of the Right to Philosophy, interview with Robert Maggiori for Libération, 15 November 1990, republished in Points (1995). Moreover, in one of his lectures for Rencontres Philosophiques, he referenced an interview of his mentor, Vladimir Jankélévitch, for the newspaper, shortly before the latter's death in 1985.

He contributes to numerous journals (La Pensée, Alfabeta, Le Magazine littéraire, Critique, Les Temps modernes, etc.) and translates Italian works in the humanities. He was a member of the editorial board of Critique and co-director (with Christian Descamps) of the Itinéraires collection at Éditions Flammarion, and later of the collection Philosophie présente, Chez Bordas.

He has translated several works (on political science, phenomenology, anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry) from Italian into French.

He is a member of l'Institut de la pensée contemporaine (Institute of Contemporary Thought) at Paris Diderot University.

Along with Charlotte Casiraghi, Joseph Cohen, and Raphaël Zagury-Orly, he is a founding member of Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco. He is the President of the Jury for the prizes presented annually by the organization also called, for short, PhiloMonaco.

Distinctions Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes académiques

Personal life He is the father of three adult children, including the French-American artist Mark Maggiori.

Published works Authors listed only in the case of multiple authors; otherwise the work is by Robert Maggiori alone.

Books Grisoni, Dominique and Maggiori, Robert. Lire Gramsci. Éditions universitaires, 1973. Also published later in Les temps moderne, No 343, February 1975, pp. 879-1062. Digitized on 6 October 2006. "De la convivance: philosophie de la liberté ou philosophie de l'amour?." Éditions Fayard, 1985. . De la Convivance, Editions Fayard, 1986. . "La philosophie au jour le jour." Éditions Flammarion, 1994). . Un animal, un philosophe, Éditions Julliard, 2005. . À la rencontre des philosophes: 100 chroniques de Libération, Bordas, 2005. . Le métier de critique - Journalisme et philosophie, Éditions du Seuil, 2011. . Maggiori, Robert and Casiraghi, Charlotte. Archipel des Passions. Éditions du Seuil. 2018. . . . Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2023.

Periodical works Delacampagne, Christian and Maggiori, Robert, dir., Philosopher. Les interrogations contemporaines, Matériaux pour un enseignement. Reviewed by Maryvonne Roth - 1981 - Philosophy in Review 1 (5):202-206. Republished in later collections. See section on editorial works. Contat, Michel and Maggiori, Robert. Obituary of Simone de Beauvoir. Radical Philosophy O44. Autumn 1986. "Can a Critic be Philosophical?". Le Débat, 1992/5 No 72, 1992. p.231-236. “Philosophy through the Looking Glass.” World Press Review 42 (5): 44. (1995). Etre ou avoir, une question de Fromm. Libération, Paris 19. October 2000, p. XI. Ost in Translation - 5 June 2009. Originally published in Libération, then republished at the link in VoxEurop. (English)

Prefaces Vladimir Jankélévitch filosofo dell'amore, preface to the Italian edition of Traité des Vertus, rendered as Trattato delle virtù, and translated by E. Klersy Imberciadori. Milan: Garzanti, 1987. Second edition 1996. 304p. . Out of print.

Translations From Italian to French Notes sur Gramsci, by Alfonso Leonetti, EDI, Paris, 1974 Pour le communisme : questions de théorie, by Nicola Badaloni, Mouton, La Haye, 1975 Analyse en famille, by Maria Marcone, Éditions Payot, Paris, 1979 L'Enfant poisson, by Michele Zappella, Paris, Payot, 1979 La Mauvaise mère - Phénoménologie et anthropologie de l'infanticide, by Glauco Carloni and Daniela Nobili, Payot, 1977 Sexualité et culture, by Franco Fornari, PUF, 1978 Qu'est-ce que la psychiatrie ?, by Franco Basaglia, PUF, 1980

Works cited in Mythologies du porc, cited in the bibliography for Walter, Philippe: Le Courrier de l'environnement de l'INRA 37, no. 37 (1999): 103-105. Hottois, Gilbert, Christian Delacampagne, and Robert Maggiori. "Travail et technoscience." (2000). Cited in Silverstein, Marc. (ed.) Matériaux scientifiques et philosophiques pour un matérialisme contemporain. Éditions Matériologiques, 2013.

Editorial work

Collection Itinéraires, Éditions Flammarion Collection Philosophie Présente, Chez Bordas (co-edited with Christian Delacampagne) Philosopher. 2014. Éditions Robert Laffont, 2014. Collection Bouquins. . Philosopher: les interrogations contemporaines : matériaux pour un enseignement. Éditions Fayard, 2000. . Special issues in the revue Critique, (Éditions de Minuit) Les philosophes italiens par eux-mêmes, N° 452-53, (1985) Michel Foucault, du monde entier, N° 471-72, (1986). . Vladimir Jankélévitch, N° 500-01, (1989) Giacomo Leopardi, N° 512-13, (1990).

Television Carlo Ginzburg, Réflexions faites, GMT Productions, La Sept/Arte Ernst Gombrich, Réflexions faites, GMT Productions, La Sept/Arte (in collaboration with Didier Eribon) Philosophy Masterclass for Libération (DVD, Éditions Montparnasse) : L’Amour (with André Comte-Sponville, Anne Dufourmantelle, Michel Erman and Nicolas Grimaldi) La Famille (with Elisabeth Roudinesco, Luc Ferry, François de Singly and Irène Théry) Dieu (with Rémi Brague, Julia Kristeva, Jean-Luc-Marion and Michel Serres). La Grande Librairie, « Archipel des passions » : la rencontre philosophique de Charlotte Casiraghi et Robert Maggiori. 23 February 2018. France Televisions: France 5.

Podcasts PhiloMonaco podcast: La Maison de la Philosophie/Leçons de Philosophie 2018 Robert Maggiori // Jankélévitch et l'amour - Uploaded 27 December 2018 Robert Maggiori // Philosophie Et Sport - Aired 10 May 2019 / uploaded 26 August 2019

Notes

References

Further reading Malle, Chloe. 2022. “Grace UNDER Pressure.” Town & Country 176 (5487): 114–21. EBSCOhost. Roth, Maryvonne. 1981. “Christian Delacampagne and Robert Maggiori, dir., ‘Philosopher. Les Interrogations Contemporaines. Matériaux Pour Un enseignement.’”. Philosophy in Review 1 (5). British Columbia, Canada:202-6. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/11250.

External links Radio France: Robert Maggiori Philo Monaco: Robert Maggiori