He notably taught philosophers Hadrien France-Lanord [fr] and Fabrice Midal [fr].He has been the teacher of a new generation of philosophers, such as Hadrien France-Lanord, Philippe Arjakovsky and Fabrice Midal, who was introduced to the field of oriental meditation by the Chilean biologist Francisco Varela.
On the occasion of the publication of Voz del amigo y otros ensayos en torno a Heidegger by Editorial de la Universidad Diego Portales (2017), Juan Rodríguez M. does an email interview with him in which Fédier tells in broad strokes his relationship with Heidegger.
Rodriguez says: In 1958, the philosopher visited the University of Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France, to give a lecture on "Hegel and the Greeks".
And then she turns to some words of Hannah Arendt, included in one of the texts of Voice of the Friend, and taken from a letter she wrote to her husband: in it, the political theorist, says that Heidegger, her former teacher, "is in magnificent form", that he seems to have "found his Medium".
The interview was published on August 27, 2017 on page E-6 of the cultural supplement Artes y Letras of the Santiago, Chile, newspaper El Mercurio.
He would go to his home, both to the "little house" he had in Freiburg, Germany, and to the cottage he had in Todtnauberg, high in the Black Forest, "which was even smaller.
"But, quickly, the pleasure of meeting him became more central; and so the habit was created (as soon as the occasion arose) of hopping over to his home."
Incidentally, Voz del amigo - the author's first book published in Spanish - becomes known in Spain and Hispanic America.
The influence of this true education is all the more profound insofar as it is less visible within the exaggeratedly enlightened, dazzling and blinding haze of public agitation.
And she is rare enough to merit acclaim in an age when "those who are passionate about school" forget to say, quite simply, what it is: the space where what the Ancients called scholé [σχολή], namely leisure, otium, free time or the vacation that gives thought the occasion to make contact with phenomena, can unfold.
And this, in complete freedom, that is to say, without a program, without a plan drawn in advance, without the oppression of statistics and sheltered from the pummeling of profitability at any price (See his preface to L'art en liberté, Pocket, Paris, 2006, p. 11).
He leaves aside the elusive stereotyped language (the "langue de bois") in order, with all the rigor proper to phenomenology, to make seen and understood that which he pours from German into French.