“The project ‘Thinking Anti-Colonialism through French Philosophy’ rests on the premise that if there is to be reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, there must be elements in Euro-Canadian cultural and political traditions that will make reconciliation efforts worthwhile. These elements, once they are identified and understood, can function as a basis for trust and as a foundation for a transformation of Canadian colonial institutions. Anti-colonial philosophy is one such element present, though rare, in the history of European and Canadian philosophy. I will be focusing in this project on the texts written by European philosophers in the journals Les Temps Modernes and Esprit after the Second World War until the end of the Algerian War. These anti-colonial texts are remarkable in that they present attempts at undoing a colonial system that benefits the authors. They contain ideas and arguments which I will adapt in order to apply them to the contemporary Canadian settler colonial state.