Alexandre Lacroix

About Alexandre Lacroix

Born on September 2, 1975, in Poitiers, Alexandre Lacroix has been the editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazine since the creation and launch of the journal in 2006. Philosophie Magazine has received several awards, including the “Best New Magazine of the Year” award in 2006 and the “Magazine of the Year” award in 2010. Additionally, Philosophie Magazine has launched a German edition, for which Alexandre Lacroix serves as an advisor.

Having signed numerous articles in this journal, he has made some scoops, such as the dialogue between Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Onfray that sparked controversy during the 2007 presidential campaign, or the exclusive dialogue between Julian Assange and American philosopher Peter Singer, which took place in England in 2011.

Alexandre Lacroix is also a lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris since 1998, where he teaches a creative writing course to first and second-year students. He directs a philosophy collection, “Les Grands mots”, published by Autrement.

However, Alexandre Lacroix’s passion is literature. He has published seven novels and four essays. His first novel, “Premières volontés” (Grasset, 1998), is autobiographical and recounts the grief that marked his childhood. Additionally, he published a cycle of three other very personal novels with Flammarion, between 2008 and 2010, “De la supériorité des femmes”, “Quand j’étais nietzschéen”, and “L’Orfelin”. The essays by this author freely intertwine literary and philosophical references and address existential themes: the role of intoxication in contemporary literature is discussed in “Se noyer dans l’alcool ?” (PUF, collection “Perspectives critiques”, 2001), “La Grâce du criminel” (PUF, collection “Perspectives critiques”, 2005) analyzes the psychology of fictional criminals, and “Contribution à la théorie du baiser” (Autrement, 2011) traces the little-known history of this erotic gesture.

Alexandre Lacroix studied philosophy at the University of Paris I (up to the undergraduate level), philosophy at Paris I as well (up to the master’s level), and graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 1998. That same year, he had a brief stint of six months in an advertising agency, as a “strategic planner” at Devarrieux-Villaret, before moving on to other horizons.