Lino Castex
Lino Castex is a former classe préparatoire littéraire student (a prestigious two-year programme in literature where students prepare to sit the competitive recruitment exams for the main French grandes écoles). He was awarded a BA and a master’s degree in philosophy by the Sorbonne Paris IV and a Research master’s degree in political science by Sciences Po.
His master’s thesis was conceived of as a piece of research that would lay the ground for his subsequent PhD whose aim would be to demonstrate the return of the idea of the common good in contemporary political discourse.
He was awarded a doctoral contract and is currently working on his thesis at the CEVIPOF supervised by Gil Delannoi (FNSP) and Philippe Portier (EPHE/CNRS).
His research explores the movements of certain notions in the history of political thought. He draws on the idea of the common good, with the aim of understanding and mapping how the notion has been eschewed in the shaping of political modernity and the theoretical metamorphoses that are leading to its contemporary reinvention. He also lectures part-time on the history of political thought at the Institut Catholique de Paris.
Research Fields
Histoire conceptuelle, discours contemporains, sécularisation, fins politiques
