French writer and philosopher
Rafaël Pividal (born 1934 near Buenos Aires – 2 October 2006) was a French writer and philosopher.
Biography.
Rafaël Pividal was the son of a French mother, a classical dancer, and an Argentinean father, a lawyer. Rafael's maternal grandmother was a well-known actress, Germaine Dermoz (1888–1966).
At the death of his father in 1944, Rafael and his mother found themselves in a great poverty. From the age of 14, he must give private lessons to earn a little money.
He attended secondary school in Buenos Aires and passed a French baccalaureate (1952); He then went to France to study philosophy. A student at the Sorbonne, he was part of a group which included Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, Lucien Sebag and Pierre Clastres. He was admitted at the agrégation of philosophy in 1959.
From 1964, he taught sociology of art at the Sorbonne. He supported his doctoral thesis (sociology) in 1995 and was thereafter habilited to direct thesis.
In parallel to his teaching, Rafaël Pividal was successively a member of the editorial boards of the "Exit" and "Roman" magazines and wrote numerous books.
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