Louis Marin was born in Grenoble, France, in 1931. Between 1950 and 1954 he attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, the center of his country's most prestigious training. Until the early seventies he held various positions at the Institut français in London, the French Embassy in Turkey and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where back in 1978 (converted already in the EHESS) as directeur d'etudes, then a series of stays at American universities.
Assistant early seminars Algirdas Greimas in the sixties, and permanent intellectual exchange with other great figures of French thought as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau and Jacques Derrida, Marin produced an extensive and fruitful work for various disciplines of human sciences and social. His research about the seventeenth century French incorporated reflections that transcended the borders of the classical era and tied their specific problems with other purely philosophical, as the irreducibility between text and images, the concept of representation, the way this operates the transformation of force potential and instituting power, the limits of that power, and the constitution of the subject through the eyes.
Louis Marin died in Paris in 1992. Some of his writings were published posthumously, and although a few of them circulated among Latin American readers in the original language, his untimely death hindered the preparation of translations of his fundamental works. It is therefore to conclude that, after more than thirty years, his work finally become accessible in Spanish.