François Regnault

Who is François Regnault?

François Regnault is a French philosopher, playwright and dramaturg. Also a university instructor and teacher, Regnault was maître de conférences at Paris VIII before his retirement. Among his various writings he is the author, with Jean-Claude Milner, of the seminal Dire le vers and of Conférences d'esthétique lacanienne.

Regnault studied philosophy at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, and then the Ecole Normale Supérieure beginning in 1962 where he attended the seminars of Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan and was a member of the editorial board of Cahiers pour l'Analyse beginning with its inception in 1966. Regnault taught at the Lycée de Reims from 1964–70, where he became a close friend of another philosopher and playwright, Alain Badiou. In 1970, Regnault joined the Department of Philosophy at the then newly founded University of Paris VIII. In 1974, he moved to Paris VIII's Department of Psychoanalysis.

Since the early 1970s Regnault's work expanded to include, alongside philosophy and psychoanalysis, a practical involvement in theatre. Coming from a family with theatrical connections, he has sustained an interest in the theatre, including many translations.