Sandra Laugier is a

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, working on

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political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

, and

popular culture Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a ...

. She is currently a full professor of

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

at the

University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

and a Senior member of the

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, after being a professor at the

University of Picardy Jules Verne The University of Picardy Jules Verne (French: ''Université de Picardie Jules Verne''; UPJV) is a public university located in the former Picardy region of France (now part of Hauts-de-France). It consists of several campuses located in the t ...

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until 2010. She has studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure and at

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. She is deputy director of the Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS). She has extensively published on

ordinary language philosophy Ordinary language philosophy (OLP) is a philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers develop by distorting or forgetting how words are ordinarily used to convey meaning in ...

(

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is considere ...

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(

moral perfectionism In ethics and value theory, perfectionism is the persistence of will in obtaining the optimal quality of spiritual, mental, physical, and material being. The neo-Aristotelean Thomas Hurka describes perfectionism as follows: This moral theory s ...

ethics of care The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories tha ...

American philosophy American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevert ...

(

Stanley Cavell Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, an ...

Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading Transcendentalism, transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural su ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...

(TV series), and more recently about

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and

civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hen ...

. She is the French translator of most of

’s work. She has been Visiting Professor at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

(2019) and at

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(2019), a Visiting Researcher at the

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(Berlin), Distinguished Visiting Professor at

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, Visiting Professor at Pontifical University (Lima), and Visiting Professor “Chaire invitée” at the Facultés Saint-Louis (Bruxelles). Since 2019, she has been the principal investigator of the ERC programme devoted to the philosophy of TV series ''Demoseries''. She is member of Editorial/ Scientific Board of ''Archives de Philosophie'', ''British Journal for the History of Philosophy'', ''Iride'', ''Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale'', ''Multitudes'', ''Espace Temps''. She is also a columnist at the French journal ''Libération''.

Bibliography

Books

* ''L'Anthropologie logique de Quine'', Paris, Vrin, 1992 * ''Recommencer la philosophie: La philosophie américaine aujourd'hui'', Paris, PUF, 1999 (new enlarged edition, Vrin, 2014) * ''Du réel à l'ordinaire: Quelle philosophie du langage aujourd'hui ?'', Paris, Vrin, 1999 (translated in English, The University of Chicago Press, 2013) * ''Faut-il encore écouter les intellectuels?'', Paris, Bayard, 2003 * ''Une autre pensée politique américaine: La démocratie radicale, de R. W. Emerson à S. Cavell'', Paris, Michel Houdiard, 2004 * ''Qu'est-ce que le care?'' (with Patricia Paperman and Pascale Molinier), Paris, Payot, 2009 * ''Wittgenstein: Les sens de l'usage'', Paris, Vrin, 2009 * ''Wittgenstein: Le mythe de l’inexpressivité'', Paris, Vrin, 2010 * ''Pourquoi désobéir en démocratie?'' (with Albert Ogien), Paris, La Découverte, 201010 * ''Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy'', Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013 * ''Face aux désastres: Une conversation à quatre voix sur la folie, le care et les grandes détresses collectives'' (with Anne M. Lovell, Stefania Pandolfo, Veena Das), Paris, Ithaque, 2013 * ''Le Principe démocratie'' (with Albert Ogien), Paris, La Découverte, 2014 * ''Recommencer la philosophie: Stanley Cavell et la philosophie en Amérique'', Paris, Vrin, 2014 * ''Etica e politica dell'ordinario'', Milano, LED Edizioni, 2015 * ''Antidémocratie'', (with Albert Ogien), Paris, La Découverte, 2017 * ''Nos vies en series'', Paris, Climats, 2019 * ''La société des vulnérables. Leçons féministes d’une crise'' (with

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (; ar, link=no, نجاة فالو بلقاسم; Riffian-Berber: ⵏⴰⵊⴰⵜ ⴱⵍⵇⴰⵙⵎ; born 4 October 1977) is a former Moroccan- French jurist and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who was the first Fr ...

), Paris, Gallimard, 2020 * ''Politics of the Ordinary. Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life'', Leuven, Peeters, 2020www.peeters-leuven.be
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Edited books

* ''Physique et réalité'' (coedited with

Michel Bitbol Michel Bitbol (born March 12, 1954) is a French researcher in philosophy of science. He is "Directeur de recherche" at CNRS, previously in the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA) of École polytechnique (Paris, France). H ...

), Paris, éditions Diderot, Paris, 1997 * ''Les mots de l’esprit: Wittgenstein et la philosophie de la psychologie'' (coedited with Christiane Chauviré and Jean-Jacques Rosat), Paris, Vrin, 2001 * ''Carnap et la construction logique du monde'', Paris, Vrin, 2001 * ''Stanley Cavell, cinéma et philosophie'' (coedited with Marc Cerisuelo), Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2001 * ''Wittgenstein: Métaphysique et jeu de langage'', Paris, PUF, 2001 * ''Wittgenstein, dernières pensées'' (coedited with

Jacques Bouveresse Jacques Bouveresse (; 20 August 1940 – 9 May 2021) was a French philosopher who wrote on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy ...

and Jean-Jacques Rosat), Marseille, Agone, 2002 * ''Husserl et Wittgenstein: De la description de l’expérience à la phénoménologie linguistique'' (coedited with Jocelyn Benoist), Hildesheim, Olms, 2004 * ''Textes-clés de philosophie des sciences'' (coedited with Pierre Wagner), 2 volumes, Paris, Vrin, 2004 * ''Langage ordinaire et métaphysique – Strawson'' (coedited with Jocelyn Benoist), Paris, Vrin, 2005 * ''Dictionnaire de la pornographie'' (coedited with

Philippe Di Folco Philippe Di Folco (born 20 June 1964 in Choisy-le-Roi) is a French author and teacher. Biography Born and raised in Val de Marne, near Paris, France, Philippe Di Folco studied Economics and Literature at School for Advanced Studies in the Soci ...

), Paris, PUF, 2005 * ''Le souci des autres – éthique et politique du care'' (coedited with Patricia Paperman), Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2006 * ''L’ordinaire et le politique'' (coedited with Claude Gautier), Paris, PUF, 2006 * ''Ethique, littérature, vie humaine'', Paris, PUF, 2006 * ''Lire les Recherches Philosophiques de Wittgenstein'' (coedited with Christiane Chauviré), Paris, Vrin, 2006 * ''Comment penser l'autonomie? Entre compétences et dépendances'' (coedited with Marlène Jouan), Paris, PUF, 2008 * ''Normativités du sens commun'' (coedited with Claude Gautier), Paris, PUF, 2009 * ''Textes-clés de philosophie du langage'' (coedited with Bruno Ambroise), 2 volumes, Paris, Vrin, 2009, 2010 * ''La voix et la vertu: Variétés du perfectionnisme moral'', Paris, PUF, 2010 * ''J. L. Austin et la philosophie du langage ordinaire'' (coedited with Christophe Al-Saleh), Hildesheim, Olms, 2011 * ''Tous vulnérables? Ethique du care, les animaux et l'environnement'', Paris, Payot, 2012 * ''La philosophie analytique'' (coedited with Sabine Plaud), Paris, Ellipses, 2012 * ''Philoséries: Buffy – Tueuse de vampires'' (coedited with Sylvie Allouche), Paris, Bragelonne, 2014 * ''Formes de vie'' (coedited with Estelle Ferrarese), CNRS éditions, 2018 * ''Le pouvoir des liens faibles'' (coedited with Alexandre Gefen), CNRS éditions, 2020 * ''Concepts de l’ordinaire'' (coedited with Pierre Fasula), éditions de la Sorbonne 2021

Edited special journal issues

* "Retour du moralisme ?" (coedited with Laurent Jaffro), ''Cités'', 2001 * "Moritz Schlick et le tournant de la philosophie", ''Etudes Philosophiques'', 2001 * "Wittgenstein 1889-1951", ''Archives de philosophie'', 2001 * "Ralph Waldo Emerson: L’autorité du scepticisme", ''Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines'', 2002 * "Naturalisme(s): Héritages contemporains de Hume", ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'', 2003 * "Politiques de la pornographie" (coedited with Michela Marzano), ''Cités'', 2003 * "Après la structure: Kuhn et les révolutions scientifiques", ''Archives de philosophie'', 2003 * "Usages d’Austin" (coedited with Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel), ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'', 2004 * "Morale et métaphysique chez G.E. Moore" (coedited with Emmanuel Picavet), ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'', 2006 * "La contrainte", ''Actes de savoirs. Revue de l'IUF'', 2007 * "Quine et l'analyticité", ''Archives de philosophie'', 2009 * "Wittgenstein politique" (coedited with Marie-Anne Lescourret), ''Cités'', 2009 * "Politiques du care" (coedited with Pascale Molinier), ''Multitudes'', 2009 * "Perfectionism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism" (coedited with Piergiorgio Donatelli), ''European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy'', 2011 * "Grammaires de la vulnérabilité" (coedited with Marie Gaille), ''Raison Publique'', 2011 * "Stanley Cavell", ''Revue internationale de philosophie'', 2011 * "Le retour à la vie ordinaire", ''Raison Publique'', 2013 * "Care and Human Security", ''Iride'', 2013 * "Care, catastrophe, capabilités", ''Raison Publique'', 2014 * "Genre et environnement", ''Cahiers du Genre'', 2015 * "New Robotics, New Living Beings", ''Iride'', 2016 * "L'invention des formes de vie", Multitudes, no 71, 2018 * "Le patriarcat bouge encore", Multitudes, no 78, 2020

Translations

* S. Cavell, ''Une nouvelle Amérique encore inapprochable, de Wittgenstein à Emerson'' (''This New Yet Unapproachable America''), Combas, L’éclat, 1991 * S. Cavell, ''Statuts d’Emerson: Constitution, philosophie, politique'', the volume includes a presentation and translation of Cavell's and Emerson's essays, Combas, L’éclat, 1992 * S. Cavell, ''A la recherche du bonheur: Hollywood et la comédie du remariage'' (''Pursuits of Happiness''), Paris, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1993 (with Christian Fournier) * S. Cavell, ''Conditions nobles et ignobles: La constitution du perfectionnnisme moral émersonien'' (''Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome''), Combas, L’éclat, 1993 (with Christian Fournier) * S. Cavell, ''Les Voix de la raison'' (''The Claim of Reason''), Paris, Seuil, 1996 (with Nicole Balso) * A. Gibbard, ''Sagesse des choix, justesse des sentiments: Une théorie du judgement normatif'' (''Wise Choices, Apt Feelings''), Paris, PUF, 1996 * S. Cavell, ''Un ton pour la philosophie'' (''A Pitch of Philosophy''), Paris, Bayard, 2003 (with Elise Domenach) * W. V. Quine, ''D’un point de vue logique'' (''From a Logical Point of View''), Paris, Vrin, 2003 (collective translation) * R. W. Emerson, ''Essais: Histoire, Destin, Expérience, Compensation'', Paris, Michel Houdiard, 2005 (with Christian Fournier) * S. Cavell, ''Dire et vouloir dire'' (''Must We Mean What We Say?''), Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2009 (with Christian Fournier) * S. Cavell, ''Qu'est-ce que la philosophie américaine?'', Paris, Folio Gallimard, 2009 (with Christian Fournier) * S. Cavell, ''Si j'avais su…'' (''Little Did I Know''), Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2014 (with Jean-Louis Laugier)

Articles

* Several publications and papers available on the author'
Academia page
* Several papers available on the author'
personal website
* Her recent publications and broadcasts are announced on the author'
facebook page

Papers in English available online

*
This is us. Wittgenstein and the social
, 2012 *
Necrology of Ontology: Putnam, Ethics, Realism
, ''

The Monist ''The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of philosophy. It was established in October 1890 by American publisher Edward C. Hegeler. History Init ...

'', volume 103, issue 4, October 2020, pages 391–403 *
Disobedience as Resistance to Intellectual Conformity
, ''Critical Inquiry'' 45, 2019 *
The Vulnerabiliy of the Ordinary: Goffman, reader of Austin
, 2018 *
Voice as Form of Life and Life Form
, 2015
"The Normativity of the Ordinary: Performative Utterances and Social Reality"

"A Romanticism of Democracy: Emerson, Thoreau, Cavell, Malick"
*
Popular Cultures, Ordinary Criticism: A Philosophy of Minor Genres
, MLN Journal , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
"Introduction to the French edition of ''Must We Mean What We Say?''"
''Critical Inquiry'', vol. 37 (2011), no. 4, pp. 627–651
"The Will to See"
''Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal'', vol. 34 (2013), no. 2, pp. 263–281
"The Ethics of Care as a Politics of the Ordinary"

* ttp://olponline.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/oct-14-sandra-laugiers-passages/ Notes on Stanley Cavell

In French

Sandra Laugier's publications on Cairn.info

Sandra Laugier's articles in ''Libération''

Sandra Laugier's articles in ''Mediapart''

Sandra Laugier's articles in ''Multitudes''

References

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