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Jean-Toussaint Desanti

French philosopher1914 to 2002

Wikidata names Jean Cavaillès as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata23

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught5

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Louis Althusser

    born 1918
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Michel Foucault

    born 1926
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Gérard Genette

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean-Gérard Bursztein

    born 1945
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean-Michel Vappereau

    born 1948

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 200 people: 200 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.