1982- French Baccalaureate
1985-1988 : Bachelor and Master’s degree in Philosophy at University Paris-IV Sorbonne
1985-1991 : Ecole Normale Supérieure of Fontenay/St-Cloud.
1989 : Agrégation in philosophy (State exam).
1991/94 : Assistant-professor at the Lille3-University.
1994 : Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Unit : Centre de Recherche Philologique in Lille, URA 992).
1997 : PhD philosophy, University Paris-X Nanterre : on Kant and Schleiermacher .
2004 : Habilitation on “Critique and Hermeneutics” at the University Paris IV Sorbonne.
2005/2007 : Research at the Interdisciplinary Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich 573) « Pluralisierung und Autorität in der Frühen Neuzeit » at the Université Ludwig-Maximilian de Munich.
2006 - present : Research Director at the CNRS.
2008-2011 : Researcher at the Franco-German Center for Social Sciences, Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.