Secularism? A difficult term to understand. So we asked Catherine Kintzler to enlighten us on the notion of secularism. Catherine Kintzler is a French philosopher, specialist in aesthetics and secularism. A graduate of philosophy, a state doctor of letters, she is professor emeritus1 at the University of Lille III. She is also co-founder of the Comité Laïcité République in 1990 and a member of the Council of Elders of Secularism of the Ministry of National Education since 2018.
She is the author of numerous works, including several on secularism: Jean-Philippe Rameau, splendor and shipwreck of the aesthetics of pleasure in the classical age, Paris, Minerve, coll. “History / Paths of History”, 1983 (reprinted 1990 and 2011), 253 p. Condorcet, public education and the birth of the citizen, Paris, Gallimard, coll. “Folio — Essays / Philosophy”, 1987, 313 p. Poetics of French Opera — from Corneille to Rousseau, Paris, Minerve, coll. “Paths of History”, 1991 (reprinted 2006), 486 p. The Republic in questions, Paris, Minerve, coll. “Society”, 1996, 240 p. Tolerance and secularism, Nantes, Spotlight, 1998, 81 p. The Republic and the Terror, Kimé, coll. “Philosophy / epistemology”, 1998, 159 p. Theatre and Opera in the Classical Age, a Familiar Strangeness, Paris, Fayard, coll. “The paths of music”, 2004, 334 p. What is secularism?, Paris, Vrin, coll. “Philosophical Paths”, 2007, 128 p. Thinking about secularism, Paris, Minerve, 2014, 220 p.
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