Corine Pelluchon (born 2 November 1967,

Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire () is a commune in the Charente department, Southwestern France. The commune was formed in 1973 by the merger of the former communes Barbezieux and Saint-Hilaire.University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée The Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, or commonly known as UPEM, was a French university, in the . The main campus was located at Champs-sur-Marne. In 2020, UPEM merged with other facilities in the Descartes Campus to become Gustave Eiffel ...

(UPEM) which is now Gustave Eiffel University.

Education

Corine Pelluchon received her

agrégation In France, the () is the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all stu ...

in philosophy in 1997, then defended a thesis entitled at the

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (), also known as Paris 1 (or Paris I) and Panthéon-Sorbonne University (or, together with Sorbonne University and Sorbonne Nouvelle University, simply as the Sorbonne), is a Public university, public rese ...

in 2003, and obtained a

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

in philosophy entitled in 2010.

Career and research

She was appointed professor of philosophy at the

University of Franche-Comté The Marie and Louis Pasteur University (UMLP), formerly known as University of Franche-Comté, is a pluridisciplinary public French university located in Besançon, Franche-Comté, with decentralized campuses in Belfort, Montbéliard, Vesoul and ...

and in 2016 joined UPEM, where she is a statutory member of the interdisciplinary laboratory for the study of

political philosopher Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and legitimacy of political institutions, such as states. This field investigates different forms of government, ranging from de ...

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theory, political theorists of the twentieth century. Her work ...

. Pelluchon was invited by the parliamentary commission for the revision of the bioethics laws on 20 January 2009. She serves as a literary advisor for Alma éditeur, and was a member of the scientific council of the from 2017 to 2020. Her research interests include applied ethics, medical ethics, animal issues,

political ecology Political ecology is the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes. Political ecology differs from apolitical ecological studies by politicizing environmental issues and pheno ...

and

environmental ethics In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...

Awards and honours

* 2006, prix François-Furet * 2012, for her book, ''Éléments pour une éthique de la vulnérabilité. Les hommes, les animaux, la nature'' * 2015, for her book, ''Les Nourritures. Philosophie du corps politique'' * 2016, prix Paris-Liège for the essay, ''Les Nourritures. Philosophie du corps politique'' * 2020, prix

Günther Anders Günther Anders (; born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-born philosopher, journalist and critical theorist. Trained as a philosopher in the phenomenological tradition, he obtained his doctorate under ...

* 2021, Knight,

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

* 2025, Leopold Lucas Preis

Selected works

* ''La Flamme ivre'', 1999 * ''

Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students an ...

, une autre raison, d'autres Lumières : essai sur la crise de la rationalité contemporaine'', 2005 * * ''La Raison du sensible : entretiens autour de la bioéthique'', 2009 * ''Éléments pour une éthique de la vulnérabilité : les hommes, les animaux, la nature'', 2011 * ''Comment va Marianne ? : conte philosophique et républicain'', 2012 * ''Tu ne tueras point : réflexions sur l'actualité de l'interdit du meurtre'', 2013 * ''Les Nourritures : philosophie du corps politique'', 2015 * ''Manifeste animaliste : politiser la cause animale'', 2017 * ''Éthique de la considération'', 2018 * ''Pour comprendre Levinas'', 2020 * ''Réparons le monde. Humains, animaux, nature'', 2020 * ''Les Lumières à l'âge du vivant'', 2021 * ''

Paul Ricœur Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (; ; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such, his thought is within the same tradition as other major hermeneut ...

, philosophe de la reconstruction : Soin, attestation, justice'', 2022 * ''L'espérance ou la traversée de l'impossible'', 2023 * ''L'être et la mer. Pour un existentialisme écologique,'' 2024 ISBN 9782130850434 * ''La démocratie sans emprise ou la puissance du féminin'', Rivages, 2025 ISBN 978274366200

References

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