Claude Lefort (1924), director emeritus of studios at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1975-1989) has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Tilburg and Buenos Aires, the New School for Social Research; International Awards and Hannah Arendt and Grande Ville de Paris._x000D_

Among his works: Machiavel (1972), L'invention démocratique (1981), Essais sur le politique (1992), La complication. Retour sur le communisme (1999).