Bernard Charlot. In memorian

Soledad Vercellino

Authors

Soledad Vercellino Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1087-5455

Keywords:

relationship with knowledge, Bernard Charlot, network of researchers on the relationship with knowledge

Abstract

A few days before the release of this Dossier, on December 3, 2025, we received the news of the passing of Bernard Charlot (1944–2025). Until his final hours, he remained deeply engaged, driven by a vital impulse to create spaces that were always collective and horizontal, dedicated to thought, reflection, and production. With his body and his concepts, he sustained, honoring the school that shaped him (Badiou, 2005), that adventure of being human and holding ourselves as such, his struggle through education against barbarism (in its various ever-renewed forms).

He was the youngest among us. He remained restless, writing a book, his last book, on the Theory of the Relationship with Knowledge, which now remains unfinished. He had been reading Heidegger, revisiting him to further strengthen the foundations of his notion of the subject, so central to his work.

Between November 10 and 14, we gathered together with other colleagues from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and Greece at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil) for the first meeting of the Network of Researchers of the Relationship with Knowledge (RIRSA). There, Bernard worked tirelessly. He coordinated, translated the ongoing dialogues into three languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French), debated, argued, questioned… We had been organizing that RIRSA meeting for a year. It became his farewell and yet another gesture of his legacy.

In that context of collaboration, this Dossier emerged, which we conceived, designed, and cared for together. What follows is a brief text in his memory. This text is based on one written in 2022, which is part of a collective volume titled A obra de Bernard Charlot: Por seus intérpretes (CRV Publishing House, Curitiba, Brazil), organized by D. Cavalvanti and C. Rego.

Full-text of the article is available for this locale: Spanish.

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