Arnaud Spire

Arnaud Spire (16 June 1939 – January 2022) was a French journalist and philosopher. He worked primarily for L'Humanité.

The son of professor of philosophy Gilbert Spire and Marie-Rose Helphen, Arnaud was born on 16 June 1939 in Annecy. He moved to Algeria in March 1962 and worked as a journalist for Alger républicain until 1965. While he was an underground activist opposing the 1965 Algerian coup d'état, he was arrested, tortured, and expelled back to France.

After earning a degree in philosophy in 1967, Spire began teaching the subject. He was laid off in 1974 due to his union activism and joined the editorial staff of La Nouvelle Critique [fr], a newspaper published by the French Communist Party. After this he worked as a journalist for L'Humanité.

Spire was a member of the executive board of Espaces Marx [fr] and a councilor of the Fondation Gabriel-Péri [fr]. He wrote numerous books alongside Jean-Paul Jouary [fr] and particularly focused on the thoughts of Marxism. He wrote numerous articles for the likes of Multitudes and Regards.

He died in January 2022, at the age of 82.

• Giscard et les idées : essai sur la guerre idéologique (1980)
• Éloge de la politique (1981)
• Invitation à la philosophie marxiste (1983)
• Le Coup d'État continue : Mitterrand et les institutions (1985)
• Penser les révolutions : seconde invitation à la philosophie marxiste (1989)
• Lénine, l'éternel retour du concret : seconde invitation à la philosophie marxiste (1991)
• Grammaire du pluralisme : entretiens avec Bernard-Henri Lévy, Régis Debray, Paul-Loup Sulitzer, et al. (1993)
• Servitudes et grandeurs du cynisme : de l'impossibilité des principes et de l'impossibilité de s'en passer (1997)
• Marx cet inconnu (1999)
• La pensée-Prigogine (1999)
• Marx contemporain - Cycle de réflexion philosophique ouvert le 16 mars 2000 à l'initiative de l'association Espaces Marx et de l'Université Paris VIII-Saint-Denis (2003)
• L'idéologie toujours présente : dialogue entre eidos et logos (2004)
• Quand l'événement dépasse le prévisible : critique de l'horloge déterministe (2006)