Thinking with Women Philosophers Critical Essays in Practical Contemporary Philosophy

Éléonore Le Jallé is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Lille. She is specialized in anglo-american philosophy, both modern and contemporary. She currently works on the links between literature and philosophy, focusing on the moral psychology present in some Victorian novels (by Dickens or Trollope). She is the author of Hume et la philosophie contemporaine (Vrin: 2015), Les limites de la raison et les règles de justice (Hermann: 2017) and she co-edited Libéral, libéralité, libéralisme (Champion: 2018). She has published several papers on Martha Nussbaum, dicussing her views on the emotions and the moral relevance of literature.

Audrey Benoit is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in December 2016. She has served as a lecturer in philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at the Université de Lille. She is currently teaching philosophy to students in “Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles” (Lille). She has published several articles and a book, entitled Trouble dans la matière. Pour une épistémologie matérialiste du sexe (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019). Her research focuses on contemporary French political and social philosophy (Foucault, Althusser), feminist philosophy and Gender Studies (especially Butler).