Former member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he has produced numerous pieces on literature and philosophy that have been translated into a dozen languages, including Pour en finir avec la généalogie (Léo Scheer, 2004), Le Toucher des philosophes. Sartre, Nietzsche et Barthes au piano (Gallimard, 2008), Les Airs de famille, une philosophie des affinités (Gallimard 2012), Le Génie du mensonge (Max Milo, 2015), Soundings and Soundscapes, with S. Kay (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Archipels Glissant, with F. Simasotchi-Bronès and Y. Toma (PUV, 2020). From 2002 to 2013, he was a producer at France Culture, where he also hosted the weekly and daily shows Les Vendredis de la philosophie, Macadam philo, Je l'entends comme je l'aime, and Le Journal de la philosophie, which explored the many connections between music and the arts, philosophy, literature, poetry, science, and other disciplines. Among many others, he received Hélène Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek.
He is the editor of two essay series, one published by Presses universitaires de Vincennes and the other by Max Milo.