Vlad Alexandrescu
Curriculum Vitæ
EMAIL: valexandrescu@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1989 University of Bucharest,
University of Bucharest (BA in French and German Studies); 1991 École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (MA Philosophy of Language); 1995
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, (PhD Philosophy, “Summa
cum Laude”);
2014, Habilitation Thesis.
2014, Habilitation Thesis.
LANGUAGES
Romanian (Native), French
(Fluent), English (Fluent), German (Fair), Italian (Intermediary), Latin (Fair).
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS
2014 "Nicolae Bălcescu" Prize, Romanian Academy, Bucharest; 2013 "P.G. Castex" Prize, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris; 1991–1995 French Government
Stipend, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; 1995 – 1996 Fellow of
the New Europe College, Bucharest; 1998 – 2001 “Relink”-Program, New Europe
College, Bucharest; 2005 Mellon Fellow of the Warburg Institute, London.
MEMBERSHIPS
(1995) Association des Amis et Correspondants du Centre
International Blaise Pascal; (1995) New Europe College, Bucharest; (1997) Romanian Association of the Francophone
Researchers in Human Sciences (ARCHES); (1997), Société d'étude du dix-septième siècle, Paris; (2001), Research Centre Foundations of Early Modern Thought, University
of Bucharest; (2002), The
Romanian Association for the History of Religions; (2005) The Warburg Institute, London; (2005) Centro
Inter-dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes e il Seicento dell’Università
del Salento, Lecce.
EDITORIAL
ACTIVITY
Co-editor of ARCHES. Revue Internationale des Sciences
Humaines (2001-2005). Responsible and editor of the issues: ARCHES. Revue
Internationale des Sciences Humaines, 5, 2003, Modèles concurrents de l’individu dans la pensée moderne; ARCHES. Revue
Internationale des Sciences Humaines, 7, 2004, Sauver les miracles. Etudes sur la pensée de l’exception; Co-editor of Journal of Early Modern Studies; Responsible and editor of: Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume
1, Issue 1 (Fall 2012), Special Issue: Shaping
the Republic of Letters: Communication, Correspondence and Networks in Early
Modern Europe, Journal edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern
Thought”, University of Bucharest.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
2015 - to date: Professor, University of Bucharest, French Studies Department; 2000
– 2014 Associate Professor, University of Bucharest, French Studies
Department; 1997 Invited
Lecturer, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ; 1995
– 2000 Senior Lecturer, 1993 – 1995 Assistant Lecturer, 1991 – 1993 Teaching
Assistant, University of Bucharest, French Studies Department.
MANAGING EXPERIENCE
AND OTHER COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
2001
– to date, Director of the Research Centre Foundations of Early Modern Thought,
University of Bucharest; 2006 – 2011, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of Romania to the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg;
2009-2011, Director of a Research Grant financed by the Romanian Government: “Science,
Politics and Utopia in the Republic of Letters: Early Modern Models of
Producing and Disseminating Knowledge”; 1998 – 2000, 2003 – 2005, President of
the Romanian Association of the Francophone Researchers in Human Sciences,
Bucharest; 2001, Director of the International Summer School “Spaces of Freedom
in Modern Thought”, Tescani, Romania, financed by The Open Society Institute
(HESP) in Budapest and the French Foreign Ministry; 2000-2002, Director of a
Research Grant financed by the World Bank and the Romanian Government: “The
Emergence of the Concept of Law in Some Early Modern Programs for the
Reformation of Knowledge”; 1998-2001, Co-ordinator of the Research Group on 17th-Century
Thought, New Europe College, Bucharest; 1996, Coordinator of the International Conference
René Descartes, Bucharest-Tescani; 1995 – 2006, Scientific Advisor of the
Students’ Scientific Workshop, Department for French Language and Literature,
Bucharest University.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
1992 (May), Le paradoxe sceptique chez Pascal, communication at
the International Conference « Lieux communs, topoï, stéréotypes,
clichés », Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Lyon); 1996 (September), Alphonse Dupront : une vision classique du monde, intervention at the
International Conference « L’Europe dans son histoire : la vision
d’Alphonse Dupront », The European
Academic Institute (Florence);
1996 (October), Descartes et la
théorie de l'énonciation, communication at the International Colloquy René
Descartes (Bucharest); 1998 (May), Alphonse Dupront et l’idéal de l"honnête homme", intervention
at the International Colloquy « Alphonse Dupront », Société des amis d'Alphonse Dupront, Paris. (Bucarest); 1998 (July), Éléments pour une problématique du
commencement, at Summer School in Social Sciences, Cluj-Belis, École normale supérieure de Fontenay/St.-Cloud, The “Babes-Bolyai” University at Cluj
and the Romanian Association of the
Francophone Researchers in Human Sciences (Cluj); 2002 (September), De l’union de l’âme et du corps en général chez
Descartes, Summer School « Competing Models in Modern
Thought », Research
Centre Foundations of Early Modern
Thought, University of Bucharest, Romanian
Association of the Francophone Researchers in Human Sciences and the New Europe College (Macea Castle); 2004 (April), Cantemiri „Sacrosanctae Scientiae indepingibilis imago”.
Remarques sur le Livre II, intervention at the Romanian Society of Classical
Studies (Bucharest);
2005 (February), La théologo-physique du
Prince Démètre Cantemir, The Warburg Institute (London); 2005 (August), La théologo-physique de Démètre Cantemir,
South-East European Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul;
2005 (December), Un écho du Cogito chez
le Prince Démètre Cantemir (1675-1723)?, intervention at the Symposium “Les
correspondances savantes de Descartes et de ses contemporains” (Rom); 2006
(January), Descartes and Pascal on the
Eucharist, lecture at the “Descartes & Pascal Conference”, University
of South Florida, Tampa; 2007 (June), Réflexions
sur l’Ancien Régime roumain: XVe-XVIIIe siècles,
International Colloquium “Quelle(s) culture(s) politique(s) pour l’Europe?”,
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2007 (November), Un exposé roumain de 1667 sur la Présence réelle dans l’Eucharistie,
International Colloquium “Le Jansénisme et l’Europe”, University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg; 2008 (March), Définition de
la pensée et vie universelle chez le Prince Démètre Cantemir, International Colloquium “Christian
Faith and Metaphysical Reason between East and West”, New Europe College,
Bucharest; 2009 (May), L’Hexaéméron du Sacro-sanctae
scientiae indepingibilis imago (1700) de
Démètre Cantemir, Journée d’études « Création, Providence et Mal », Université du
Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2011 (May), Regius
and Gassendi on the Human Soul, 11th International Society for Intellectual
History Conference “Passionate Minds”, Bucharest; 2011 (October), Gradation ou hiérarchie. Pour une lecture aréopagitique
des Pensées, International Colloquium „L’amour de la sagesse et la
sagesse de l’amour chez Pascal”, French Institute in Budapest; 2012
(March), Some Sources of Princess
Elisabeth's Letters to Descartes, International conference “Philosophizing
Women in the Affect Theories of the Late 17th and Early 18th
Centuries”, Lorand Eötvös University Budapest, Faculty of Arts, Department of
Early Modern and Contemporary Philosophy; 2012 (March), De l’usage de l’infini chez R. Descartes et J.B. Morin, 3rd
Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science, “Creative Experiments: Heuristic
& Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science”, organized by the Research
Center for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science and the Research Center for
the Foundations of Early Modern Thought, University of Bucharest.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Vlad Alexandrescu, Le paradoxe chez Blaise Pascal, Peter Lang, Berne,
1996;
Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Pragmatique et Théorie de l’énonciation. Choix de textes, Bucharest University Press, 2002;
Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009;
Vlad Alexandrescu, Croisées de la Modernité. Hypostases de l’esprit et de l’individu au XVIIe siècle, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2012 ("P.G. Castex" Prize, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris; "Nicolae Bălcescu" Prize, Romanian Academy, Bucharest).
Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Pragmatique et Théorie de l’énonciation. Choix de textes, Bucharest University Press, 2002;
Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009;
Vlad Alexandrescu, Croisées de la Modernité. Hypostases de l’esprit et de l’individu au XVIIe siècle, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2012 ("P.G. Castex" Prize, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris; "Nicolae Bălcescu" Prize, Romanian Academy, Bucharest).
Books
co-edited:
Autour de Descartes, Dolores Toma, Anca-Maria
Christodorescu, Vlad Alexandrescu (eds.), Bucharest, Crater Publishing House,
1998;
Esprits modernes. Études sur les modèles de pensée alternatifs aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Vlad Alexandrescu, Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Bucharest University Press, „Vasile Goldiş” University Press, Bucharest, Arad, 2003;
Vlad Alexandrescu and Robert Theis (eds.), Nature et Surnaturel. Philosophies de la nature et métaphysique aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, 2010;
Dimitrie Cantemir, L’immagine irrafigurabile della Scienza Sacro-Santa, a cura di Vlad Alexandrescu, traduzione di Igor Agostini e Vlad Alexandrescu, introduzione e note di Vlad Alexandrescu, edizione critica del testo latino di Dan Slușanschi e Liviu Stroia, Firenze, Mondadori, 2012.
René Descartes, Corespondenţa completă, volumul I (1607-1638), Ediţie îngrijită de Vlad Alexandrescu, Introducere de Vlad Alexandrescu, Traducere din franceză, latină şi neerlandeză de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Robert Lazu, Călin Cristian Pop, Mihai-Dragoş Vadana, Grigore Vida, Note, cronologie, note complementare, bibliografie şi indici de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Călin Cristian Pop, Mihai-Dragoş Vadana, Grigore Vida, Iași, București, Editura Polirom, 2014.
René Descartes, Corespondenţa completă, volumul II (1639-1644), ediţie îngrijită de Vlad Alexandrescu, traducere din franceză, latină şi neerlandeză de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Călin Cristian Pop, Mihai‑Dragoş Vadana, Grigore Vida, note, cronologie, note complementare, bibliografie şi indici de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Călin Cristian Pop, Grigore Vida, Iași, București, Editura Polirom, 2015.
Esprits modernes. Études sur les modèles de pensée alternatifs aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Vlad Alexandrescu, Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Bucharest University Press, „Vasile Goldiş” University Press, Bucharest, Arad, 2003;
Vlad Alexandrescu and Robert Theis (eds.), Nature et Surnaturel. Philosophies de la nature et métaphysique aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, 2010;
Dimitrie Cantemir, L’immagine irrafigurabile della Scienza Sacro-Santa, a cura di Vlad Alexandrescu, traduzione di Igor Agostini e Vlad Alexandrescu, introduzione e note di Vlad Alexandrescu, edizione critica del testo latino di Dan Slușanschi e Liviu Stroia, Firenze, Mondadori, 2012.
René Descartes, Corespondenţa completă, volumul I (1607-1638), Ediţie îngrijită de Vlad Alexandrescu, Introducere de Vlad Alexandrescu, Traducere din franceză, latină şi neerlandeză de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Robert Lazu, Călin Cristian Pop, Mihai-Dragoş Vadana, Grigore Vida, Note, cronologie, note complementare, bibliografie şi indici de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Călin Cristian Pop, Mihai-Dragoş Vadana, Grigore Vida, Iași, București, Editura Polirom, 2014.
René Descartes, Corespondenţa completă, volumul II (1639-1644), ediţie îngrijită de Vlad Alexandrescu, traducere din franceză, latină şi neerlandeză de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Călin Cristian Pop, Mihai‑Dragoş Vadana, Grigore Vida, note, cronologie, note complementare, bibliografie şi indici de Vlad Alexandrescu, Robert Arnăutu, Călin Cristian Pop, Grigore Vida, Iași, București, Editura Polirom, 2015.
Articles
Le
paradoxe sceptique chez Pascal, in Christian Plantin, Lieux communs, topoi, stéréotypes, clichés, Paris, Kimé, 1993, p.
423-432; Le doute de Montaigne, in
University of Bucharest Yearbook,
Foreign Languages and Literatures, XLIV, 1995, p.41-52; Descartes et la théorie de l'énonciation, in Autour de Descartes, textes réunis par Dolores Toma, Anca-Maria
Christodorescu, Vlad Alexandrescu, Bucharest, Crater Publishing House, 1998; Du dualisme en théorie de l'énonciation,
in New Europe College, Yearbook
1995-1996, Bucharest, Humanitas Publishing House, 1999, p. 19-51; L’Europe classique: une quête des valeurs, in
Fr. Crouzet, Fr. Furet (eds.), L’Europe
dans son histoire. La vision d’Alphonse Dupront, Paris, Presses
Universitaires de France, 1998, p. 119-128; Eléments
pour une problématique du commencement, in Invention, innovation et créativité dans les sciences sociales, Actes
de l’école francophone Cluj-Belis, juillet 1998, édités par Izabella Badiu,
Ion Copoeru, Ciprian Mihali, Casa Cartii de Stiinta, Cluj, 1999, p. 69-83; De l’union
de l’âme et du corps en général chez Descartes, in Modèles concurrents dans la pensée moderne, Vlad Alexandrescu, Dana
Jalobeanu (eds.), Bucharest University Press & Vasile Goldiş
University Press, 2003; Un manuscrit inédit
et inconnu de Démètre Cantemir. L’Epître dédicatoire du traité Sacro-sanctae
scientiae indepingibilis imago, in ARCHAEVS.
Etudes d’histoire des religions, VII (2003) 3-4, p. 245-269; J.L. Austin, filosof al limbajului, in J.L.
Austin, Cum sa faci lucruri cu vorbe, romanian
translation by Sorana Corneanu, introduction by Vlad Alexandrescu, Bucharest,
Paralela 45 Publishing House, 2003, p. 3-20; Y
a-t-il un principe d’individuation des corps physiques chez Descartes ?, in ARCHES. Revue
Internationale des Sciences Humaines, 5, 2003, p. 67-80; Pour une problématique du miracle au XVIIe siècle, in
ARCHES. Revue Internationale des Sciences Humaines, 7, 2004, p. 25-33; La Théologo-physique de Démètre Cantemir,
Annuario dell’Istituto Romeno di Cultura
e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia, IX, 2007, p. 273-281; Descartes and Pascal on the Eucharist, Perspectives on Science, vol. 15, nr. 4, Winter 2007, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., p. 434-449; Définition de la
pensée et vie universelle chez le Prince Démètre Cantemir, in Mihail Neamţu and Bogdan Tataru-Cazaban (eds.),
Memory, Humanity and Meaning. Selected
Essays in Honor of Andrei Pleşu’s Sixtieth Anniversary, Bucharest, Zeta
Books, 2009, p. 251-262 ; The double question of
individuation of physical bodies in Descartes, in Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest
for the Unity of Knowledge, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009, p. 69-94; L’impact de la
question eucharistique sur l’individualité du corps physique chez Descartes, in Vlad Alexandrescu et Robert Theis (éds.), Nature et Surnaturel. Philosophies de la
nature et métaphysique aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Georg
Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, 2010, p. 77-88; Post-Cartesian atomism: the
case of François Bernier, in Dana Jalobeanu and Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Vanishing
Matter and the Laws of Motion. Descartes and Beyond, Routledge, 2010; Un exposé roumain de 1667 sur
la Présence réelle dans l’Eucharistie in vol.
Le Jansénisme et l’Europe. Actes du
colloque international organisé à l’Université du Luxembourg les 8, 9 et 10
novembre 2007, textes édités avec répertoire bibliographique et index par
Raymond Baustert, Narr Verlag, coll « Biblio 17 », Tübingen, 2010, p.
163-169 ; Autour de la Carte de la Moldavie par Démètre Cantemir, in Revue des Etudes Sud-Est Européennes,
XLIX, 1-4, p. 139-188; What Someone May
Have Whispered in Elisabeth’s Ear, in Daniel Garber, Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy,
volume VI, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2012, p. 1-27; Regius
and Gassendi on the Human Soul, in Intellectual
History Review, 23, 2, June 2013, in print.
Editing work
Tudor Vianu, Opere,
vol. 14, Corespondenţă (Correspondence), Bucharest, Minerva
Publishing House, 1991 (edited and annotated); Scrisori către Tudor Vianu (Letters to Tudor Vianu), vol. I,
1916-1935, Bucharest, Minerva Publishing House, 1992 (edited by Maria
Alexandrescu Vianu and Vlad Alexandrescu, annotated by Vlad Alexandrescu); Scrisori către Tudor Vianu (Letters to Tudor
Vianu), vol. II, 1936-1949, Bucharest, Minerva Publishing House, 1994
(edited by Maria Alexandrescu Vianu and Vlad Alexandrescu, annotated by Vlad
Alexandrescu); Scrisori către Tudor Vianu
(Letters to Tudor Vianu), vol. III, 1950-1964, Bucharest, Minerva
Publishing House, 1997 (edited by Maria Alexandrescu Vianu and Vlad
Alexandrescu, annotated by de Geo Serban, afterword by Florin Ţurcanu); André
Scrima, La Phénoménologie du miracle,
edited, annotated and translated in French by Vlad Alexandrescu, in
« Res », 44, autumn 2003, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.,
p. 159-170; Daniela Pălăşan, L’ennui chez
Pascal et l’acédie, edited and preface by Vlad Alexandrescu, afterword by
Anca Vasiliu, Cluj, Eikon, 2005; André Scrima, Antropologia apofatică (Apophatical
Anthropology), Bucharest, Humanitas
Publishing House, 2005 (edited, annotated and foreword); André Scrima, Ortodoxia şi încercarea comunismului (The Orthodoxy and the trial of comunism),
Bucharest, Humanitas Publishing House, 2008 (edited, annotated and foreword).
Forewords
Daniela Pălăşan, Le cœur chez Pascal, préface de Vlad Alexandrescu, Bucureşti,
Editura Crater, 1999;
J.L. Austin, filosof al limbajului, în
J.L. Austin, Cum să faci lucruri cu vorbe,
traducere de Sorana Corneanu, prefaţă de Vlad Alexandrescu, Bucureşti, Editura
Paralela 45, 2003, p. 3-20;
Daniela Pălăşan, L’ennui
chez Pascal et l’acédie, édition et préface par Vlad Alexandrescu, postface
par Anca Vasiliu, Cluj, Eikon, 2005.
Reviews
of different contributions
Le
paradoxe chez Blaise Pascal, Peter Lang, Berne, 1996:
Revue XVIIe siècle, Paris, an. L, nr. 201, n° 4, 1998, p.
744-745 (Gilles Siouffi); Dialogo
Filosófico, Madrid, nr. 43, Enero/Abril, 1999 (unsigned); Choisir, Centre national de
documentation pédagogique, Paris, nr. 35, Juin 1998, supplément, p. 10 (Hélène
Bouchilloux); Bulletin cartésien, XXVIII, in «Archives
de philosophie», Paris, tome 63, cahier 1, Janvier-Mars 2000, under 3.1, p. 48 (Vincent Carraud); Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, Stuttgart, CX, 1,
2000 (Ekkehard Eggs); Studii și cercetări
lingvistice, vol. 50, 1999, nr. 1, București, Editura Academiei Române, p. 202-203
(Mariana Neț).
Autour de
Descartes,
textes réunis par Dolores Toma, Anca-Maria Christodorescu, Vlad Alexandrescu,
Bucureşti, Editura Crater, 1998:
Bulletin
cartésien, XXIX, «Archives
de philosophie», Paris tome 64 (2001), p. 41 (Giuliano Gasparri).
Esprits
modernes. Études sur les modèles de pensée alternatifs aux XVIIe-XVIIIe
siècles, Vlad Alexandrescu, Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Bucharest University Press, „Vasile Goldis” University Press,
Bucharest, Arad, 2003:
Bulletin
cartésien, XXXV, in «Archives de philosophie», Paris, tome
70, cahier 1, Janvier-Mars 2007, under 3.2.1 (Fabien Chareix);
Nicolas le
Spathaire, Enchiridion:
Luxemburger Wort, Luxemburg, 4 martie 2011, p. 14: Première traduction française d'un ouvrage
majeur «Enchiridion sive Stella Orientalis Occidentali splendens» (Raymond
Baustert).
Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest
for the Unity of Knowledge, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009:
Philosophy in
Review,
University of Victoria (Canada), vol. XXXI (2011), nr. 3, p. 164-167 (Andreea
Mihali); Bulletin cartésien, LX, in «Archives
de philosophie», cahier 1, tome 74, Printemps 2011, p. 203-207 (Philippe Boulier); British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 19, issue 4, p.
819-822 (Peter R. Anstey); Isis (The
History of Science Society, Chicago), Vol. 102, No. 3, September 2011, p.
562-563 (Jane Jenkins).
Vlad Alexandrescu et Robert
Theis (éds.), Nature et Surnaturel.
Philosophies de la nature et métaphysique aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Georg
Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, 2010:
Early
Science and Medicine, vol. 16 (2011), p. 372-374 (Davide Cellamare)
Studium: Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et des Universités
(Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, The Hague),
vol. 4, nr. 1 (2011), p. 48-49 (Delphine Bellis)
Vlad
Alexandrescu, Croisées de la modernité.
Hypostases de l’esprit et de l’individu au XVIIe siècle, Bucharest,
Zeta Books, 2012:
Lo Sguardo - Rivista di Filosofia, ISSN 2036-6558,
10, 3, (2012), p. 285-287 (Stella Carella).
January 2013