Marcel Maarek, a professor of mathematics at Vincennes since 1968-69, is only identified by Deleuze as “Maarek” (at the 3 February 1987 session), as if too well known to need to be introduced. He was born in 1921 (so four years older than Deleuze) and taught in Tunisia into the 1960s, but was ousted for political reasons, as one of the co-founders of the Tunisian Communist Party (cf. Berger p. 223, 427). Among other courses, Maarek taught logic both in his department and for the philosophy department, but seems to have maintained a moderate position between the strong math types and the Communist enclave of statisticians (Berger p. 402). His name appears on the same page as Deleuze’s in the 1970-71 and 1971-72 lists of courses. Maarek’s career seems to have lasted at Vincennes/St. Denis well into the 1990s.

For more information on Maarek and on the documentation of Paris 8 Vincennes and St. Denis more generally, see Octaviana Bibliotheque numerique, https://octaviana.fr/items/browse?collection=633, and Guy Berger et al., Folies et raisons d”une universite: Paris 8 (Editions Petra, 2015). [Entry: Stivale, 1 July 2o24]