[2] After devoting his doctoral thesis (1983) to the Annales School, Dosse turned his research interests to structuralism, the philosopher Paul Ricœur (his biography, Paul Ricœur.

Les sens d'une vie (published in 1997), has become the standard authority) and the historian Michel de Certeau.

In 2007, he published Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, biographie croisée (English trans.

[3] In 2011 he published a biography on the French historian Pierre Nora and in 2014 on the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis.

Dosse is Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres at Créteil.