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Portrait of Martine Chifflot

Martine Chifflot (born 27 March 1948)[1] is a French philosopher, Sanskritist, novelist, playwright, theatre director and poet. An honorary professor at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1,[1] she holds a doctorate in philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne University[2] and the habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.[3]

Academic career

Chifflot completed her doctoral thesis, Le thème de l’esse est percipi dans la pensée de Berkeley et de Prakāśānanda, under the supervision of Michel Hulin at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1991.[2] She obtained the habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in philosophy from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in 2012.[1][4]

She taught ethics and philosophy of education at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, the ESPE de Lyon and the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.[5] She holds the title of honorary professor (professeure agrégée honoraire) at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.[1]

Philosophical work

Chifflot’s 1991 doctoral thesis, supervised by Michel Hulin at Paris-Sorbonne University, examined the parallel between George Berkeley‘s principle of esse est percipi and the Advaita Vedānta doctrine of dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi-vāda as formulated by Prakāśānanda.[2] Drawing on this research, she published in 2005 the first French translation of Prakāśānanda’s Vedāntasiddhāntamuktāvalī directly from the Sanskrit, under the title Le collier de perles des doctrines du Vedānta.[6]

The translation received a dedicated review in the Bulletin d’Études Indiennes[7] and was noted in the Revue de l’histoire des religions.[8] Michel Hulin, in a 2021 study published in the Bibliothèque Philosophique de Louvain, designated Chifflot’s translation as the standard French-language edition of the text, drawing directly from it in translating key passages.[9] François Chenet (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) recommended Chifflot’s thesis and translation as the essential comparatist reference on the dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi-vāda.[10]

She has published Platon, l’âme et le Bien in 2015 (prefaced by Baldine Saint Girons and included in Luc Brisson‘s Bibliographie platonicienne 2014-2015),[11] as well as on the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Saint Thomas : L’âme et les sens (M+ Éditions, 2021).[12]

Her philosophical approach, which explores both European and Indian metaphysical traditions, has been characterized as presenting “two paths that took shape early in the course of Indo-European traditions: the path of knowledge and/or the path of love.”[13]

Literary and artistic work

Chifflot is the author of the New Town fantastical thriller series, comprising La maison des innocents (2022),[14][15] Les gardiens du sanctuaire (2023)[16] and Le Voyage en Ouralie (2026),[17][18] a novel credited with systematising the literary genre of anatopia — a counterpart to utopia defined by spatial rather than temporal displacement.[19]

Her play Howard, mon amour (2018), a fantasia on H. P. Lovecraft and his wife Sonia Greene, was reviewed in the Canadian speculative fiction journal Solaris[20] and in English-language Lovecraft criticism.[21] The play has been staged several times in France, notably at the Opéra-Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand in March 2021 and at the Espace 44 in Lyon in April 2023.[22] It was translated into English as Lovecraft, My Love in a bilingual edition in 2022.[23] The English version was praised by leading Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, who described the play as “a delightful short play”.[24]

Chifflot has published several poetry collections since 1979, including Bagages (1987) and Assises du Temps (2009). According to critic Brahim Saci, her poetic work constitutes a form of spiritual resistance against the noise, symbolic impoverishment and technical acceleration of contemporary modernity; he highlights her use of brief, often nominal verses and structural pauses that create a meditative silence, inviting the reader toward inner recollection and a reconnection with Being — an approach he situates within a broader project of bridging rigorous philosophical inquiry with poetic and theatrical creation.[25]

As a theatre director, Chifflot has directed over sixty productions since 1983 with her company ARCthéâtre.[26] Her work includes the chamber opera-theatre piece Animalesques, a work for soprano and clarinet performed by Ensemble Kaïros[27] incorporating music by Hugues Dufourt.[28]

She is artistic director of the Festival de Bourgogne du Sud (Saint-Maurice-lès-Châteauneuf), an annual festival of classical, sacred and baroque music founded in 2003, and founder of the Rencontres Cinématographiques du Charolais-Brionnais.[29][30]

Selected bibliography

Philosophy

  • Le thème de l’esse est percipi dans la pensée de Berkeley et de Prakāśānanda. Doctoral thesis, Université Paris IV–Sorbonne, 1991. theses.fr
  • Le collier de perles des doctrines du Vedānta (trans. from Sanskrit). L’Harmattan, 2005. ISBN 978-2-7475-8466-1
  • Platon, l’âme et le bien. Publibook, 2015. ISBN 978-2-342-03394-6
  • Autorité et pédagogie. Connaissances et Savoirs, 2018.
  • Saint Thomas, l’âme et les sens. M+ Éditions, 2021.

Fiction and theatre

  • Howard, mon amour. Aigle Botté (Phantasia), 2018.
  • La maison des innocents. M+ Éditions.
  • Les gardiens du sanctuaire. M+ Éditions, 2023.
  • Le Voyage en Ouralie. Éditions localement transcendantes, 2026.

References

  1. ^ a b c d “Notice de personne “Chifflot, Martine (1948-….)”“. catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  2. ^ a b c Chifflot, Martine (1991). Le thème de l’esse est percipi dans la pensée de Berkeley et de Prakāśānanda (PhD thesis). Université Paris IV–Sorbonne.
  3. ^ https://www.aparr.org/martine-chifflot
  4. ^ https://www.aparr.org/martine-chifflot
  5. ^ “Martine Chifflot”. Éditions Aedam Musicae. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  6. ^ Chifflot, Martine (2005). Le collier de perles des doctrines du Vedānta. Translation from Sanskrit of Prakāśānanda’s Vedāntasiddhāntamuktāvalī. Paris: L’Harmattan. ISBN 9782747584661.
  7. ^ Osier, Jean-Pierre (2006–2007). “Review of Le collier de perles des doctrines du Vedānta“ (PDF). Bulletin d’Études Indiennes. 24–25: 392–393. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
  8. ^ “Livres reçus”. Revue de l’histoire des religions (4). 2007. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  9. ^ Hulin, Michel (2021). “La version « solipsiste » de l’Advaita-Vedânta d’après la Vedānta-Siddhānta-Muktāvalī de Prakāśānanda”. In Counet, Jean-Michel (ed.). La non-dualité : Perspectives philosophiques, scientifiques, spirituelles. Bibliothèque Philosophique de Louvain. Vol. 112. Louvain: Peeters. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-90-429-4604-0.
  10. ^ Chenet, François (2008). “Review of Seeing and Appearance by Sthaneshwar Timalsina”. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128 (1): 147–151. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
  11. ^ Brisson, Luc. “Bibliographie platonicienne 2014-2015”. Études platoniciennes. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
  12. ^ BnF 46955420t
  13. ^ Claude Brunier-Coulin (dir.), Spiritualités et gnoses. Hier et aujourd’hui, Paris, Éditions Orizons, 2018, p. 12. Available online: PDF
  14. ^ “Saône-et-Loire. Martine Chifflot publie son tout premier thriller”. La Renaissance (in French). 9 November 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  15. ^ Dos Santos Guerreiro, Jean-Paul (26 October 2023). “La Maison des innocents”. Le ressenti de Jean-Paul (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  16. ^ Dos Santos Guerreiro, Jean-Paul (4 November 2023). “Les Gardiens du sanctuaire”. Le ressenti de Jean-Paul (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  17. ^ Saci, Brahim (19 May 2026). “Le voyage en Ouralie de Martine Chifflot : une odyssée morale et métaphysique”. Diasporadz (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  18. ^ “Le voyage en Ouralie de Martine Chifflot”. Le Pays (in French). 21 May 2026. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  19. ^ Gelin, Jean-Jacques (2026-04-15). “Martine Chifflot signe un nouveau roman fantastique : Le Voyage en Ouralie”. Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  20. ^ Laigle, Jean-Pierre (2019-04-01). “Critique de Martine Chifflot, Howard, mon amour”. Revue Solaris. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
  21. ^ Derie, Bobby (2022-10-15). “Howard, Mon Amour (2018) by Martine Chifflot”. Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
  22. ^ Renier, Dan (29 April 2023). “Lovecraft, mon amour”. Regard en Coulisse. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
  23. ^ Chifflot, Martine (2022). Lovecraft, My Love (in English and French). Éditions de l’Aigle Botté.
  24. ^ Joshi, S. T. (27 May 2019). “News”. Retrieved 2026-05-24. Martine is the author of Howard, Mon Amour, a delightful short play about Lovecraft and Sonia…
  25. ^ Saci, Brahim (18 May 2026). “Martine Chifflot : poétesse à l’orée de l’Être, la mémoire des chemins perdus”. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
  26. ^ “Martine Chifflot”. APARR – Annuaire professionnel audiovisuel Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  27. ^ “« Animalesques » par l’ensemble Kaïros à la Maison de la culture”. La Montagne (in French). 19 November 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  28. ^ “Béatrice Berne”. Selmer.fr (in French). Henri Selmer Paris. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  29. ^ “Martine Chifflot”. theatre-contemporain.net. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
  30. ^ Gelin, Jean-Jacques (2025-08-17). “L’écrivain Lovecraft mis à l’honneur lors des 7es Rencontres cinématographiques du Charolais-Brionnais”. Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire. Retrieved 2026-05-04.