Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manon Garcia
Institute:
Subject:
Practical philosophy, research interests: political philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral philosophy, phenomenology and philosophy of the social sciences (esp. economics)
Assistant Professor
14195 Berlin
Office hours
Consultations by appointment with the secretary of Chiara Sacchetti
Vita
Juniorprofessor for Practical Philosophy (tenure-track W1 to W3) at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Principal Investigator, DFG-Sachbeihilfe "sexual agency and the ethics of the erotic experience" (2024-2027).
Principal Investigator Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2638 "Normativität, Kritik, Wandel".
Since 2022 |
Junior Professor in Practical Philosophy (W1 to W3), Freie Universität Berlin |
2021-2022 |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure Track), Yale University |
2019-2021 |
Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University |
2018-2019 |
Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
2017-2018 |
Edmond J. Safra Post-Doctoral Fellow-in-Residence, Lecturer of Philosophy, Harvard University |
Juli 2017 |
Ph.D. at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Thesis: Consenting to One’s Submission: A Philosophical Problem |
2016-2018 |
Visiting Fellow at institute for philosophy, Harvard University |
2014-2015 |
Teacher for philosophy at the Lycée Rodin, Paris |
2014 |
Agrégation de philosophie (The most selective competitive examination in philosophy in France) |
2011 |
M.A. in philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
2010 |
M.S. in Economics & Public Policy, SciencesPo/Polytechnique/ENSAE |
2006-2010 |
Philosophy and Economics, École Normale Supérieure |
Courses in summer 2024:
Seminar zur Einführung in die Praktische Philosophie (German)
Seminar zur Einführung in die Praktische Philosophie (German)
Colloquium: Practical Philosophy
Courses in winter 2023/24:
Seminar on Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Englisch)
Seminar on Sex, Libido, and the Feminine: on Psychoanalysis and its Critiques (Englisch)
Colloquium: Practical Philosophy
Courses taught in summer 2023:
Seminar on Introduction to Practical Philosophy (English)
Hauptseminar on The Second Sex and its influences
Courses taught in winter 2022/2023:
Seminar on Simone de Beauvoir
Seminar on Existentialism (Englisch)
Main fields of work:
Manon Garcia's main areas of interest and research work are feminist moral philosophy and political philosophy, philosophy of sexuality, theories of submission, subordination and oppression, philosophy of the social sciences (especially economics and philosophy of law), French philosophy of the 20th century, in particular the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir.
Research projects:
- Principal Investigator DFG-Sachbeihlife "Sexual agency and the ethics of the erotic experience"
- Buch about the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoirs for The Routledge Philosophers Series (in preparation)
- Principal Investigator Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2638 "Normativität, Kritik, Wandel"
On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient, Paris, Flammarion, 2018.
- I authored a revised and extended English version, entitled We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published by Princeton University Press in 2021.
- Published in translation by Siglo XXI (Mexico and Argentina, 2021), Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany, 2021), Tao Zhi Yao Yao (China), Misuzu Shobo (Japan), Ecolivres (South Korea), Minotor (Turkey), and Nottetempo (Italy).
- Finalist of the Prix lycéen de philosophie
- Reviews (academic): Mind; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; European Journal of Philosophy; Hypatia; Business Ethics Quarterly; Contemporary Political Theory; Journal of Value Inquiry; International Social Science Review; Simone de Beauvoir Studies; Gender, Work, and Organization; Philosophiques; Nouvelles Questions Féministes; Women in French Studies; Estudios Públicos; American Philosophical Association Eastern Author-Meets-Critics (2021).
- Reviews (popular): Le Monde, Libération, Corriere della Serra, El País, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (among others)
La Conversation des sexes: Philosophie du consentement, Paris, Flammarion, October 2021.
- Received the Prix 2022 of the Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco; was selected in the 21 best books of 2021 by Télérama and in the 12 best "essais" (non-fiction books) of 2021 by Libération.
- I authored a revised English version, entitled The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex, Harvard University Press, October 2023.
- Published in translation by Einaudi (Italia, June ’22), with Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany), Krtina (Slovenian), and Aliansi Buku Indonesia (Indonesian).
- Reviews (academic): Gender, Work, and Organization; Nouvelles Questions Féministes; Cahiers du Genre; Laval théologique et philosophique; Philosophiques; Implications philosophiques; topic of a two-day conference at the Université du Québec, Trois Rivières (2022); Author-meets-critics session at Yale University with Steve Darwall, Robin Dembroff, and Joseph Fischel.
- Reviews (popular): Le Monde, Libération, Philosophie Magazine, L’Obs, Morgenbladet, La Reppublica (among others)
- With Julie Mazaleigue-Labaste and Alicia-Dorothy Mornington (eds.), Envers et revers du consentement, Paris, Mare & Martin, Spring 2023.
- Textes-clés de philosophie féministe: Patriarcat, savoirs, justice, Paris, Vrin, 2021.
Review (academic journal): GLAD ; La Vie des Idées - With Raphaël Ehrsam, “Perspectives Philosophiques sur Le Deuxième Sexe de Simone de Beauvoir paru il y a 70 ans”, Philosophie, n° 144, January 2020 (first journal issue in French devoted to Beauvoir as a philosopher).
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“Unveiling Existential Ambiguity: The Role of Recognition in Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy” in Matthew Congdon and Thomas Khurana (eds.), The Philosophy of Recognition: Expanded Perspectives on a Fundamental Concept, Routledge Series: Rewriting the History of Philosophy, forthcoming.
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« La servitude volontaire n’est pas la soumission consentie : l’approche morale de La Boétie et ses limites », [“Voluntary servitude is not consented submission : La Boétie’s moral approach and its limits”] in Camille Chevalier and J-L. Lantoine (eds.), La Servitude volontaire et ses avatars, ENS Éditions, 2024, p. 77-92.
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« Réponses aux critiques de La Conversation des sexes », [Response to critics in the symposium on La Conversation des Sexes], Philosophiques, Vol. 50(2), Automne 2023, p. 367-382., https://doi.org/10.7202/1111082ar
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«Précis de La Conversation des sexes», Philosophiques, Vol. 50(2), Automne 2023, p.295-302, https://doi.org/10.7202/1111076ar
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« Faut-il se méfier des politiques de l’identité ? », in Roger-Pol Droit et Monique Atlan (dir.), Que devient l’identité ?, Paris, Hermann, 2024, p. 95-108.
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“Thinking with Simone de Beauvoir Today,” Analyse & Kritik, vol. 45(2), 2023, pp.195-214. https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2023-2018.
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« La servitude volontaire n’est pas la soumission consentie : l’approche morale de La Boétie et ses limites », [“Voluntary servitude is not consented submission : La Boétie’s moral approach and its limits”] in Camille Chevalier and J-L. Lantoine (eds.), La Servitude volontaire et ses avatars, ENS Éditions, forthcoming, 2024.
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“Masculinity as an impasse. Beauvoir’s understanding of men’s situation in The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Vol. 32 (2), 2022, pp.187-206.
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“BDSM”, Clare Chambers, Brian Earp, and Lori Watson (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex, Milton: Taylor and Francis, 2022, pp. 437-451.
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“From Oppression to Independence: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love in The Second Sex” (« De l’oppression à l’indépendance. La philosophie de l’amour dans Le Deuxième Sexe »), Philosophie, n° 144, 2020, pp. 48-63.
Translated in Portuguese (Plural, 28(2), 2021, pp.184-202) and in Italian (Philosophy Kitchen, Rivista di filosofia contemporanea, n°16, 2022, pp.139-153) - “Living Philosophy: Beauvoir’s Memoirs as a philosophical ‘œuvre’” (« Vivre la philosophie : les Mémoires comme œuvre philosophique »), Littérature, n° 191, 2018, pp. 53-67.
Book reviews/Prefaces:
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Preface to the French translation of Claire Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman’s Metaphysical Animals – Le Quartet d’Oxford, Paris, Flammarion, 2024.
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Preface to the French translation of Judith Coffin’s Sex, Love, and Letters – Sexe, amour et féminisme, Paris, Plon, May 2023.
- Preface to the French translation of Kate Kirkpatrick’s Becoming Beauvoir – Devenir Beauvoir: Une vie de liberté, Paris, Flammarion, 2020.
- Review of Sonia Kruks’ Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford University Press, 2012), Revue française de science politique, 65 (4), 2015, p. 681-682.
Public Philosophy
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„Und der Hass hat doch gesiegt“, Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 8th, 2024.
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„Was ist guter Sex, Herr Kant?“ [tr. “What is good sex, Mr. Kant?”] Philosophie Magazin, February 2024. Translated in French as « Peut-on kantifier le bon sexe ? » Philosophie Magazine, hors-série n°60, 2024.
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« Croire qu’il suffit de définir le viol par le non-consentement pour y mettre fin est illusoire », [tr. [It’s an illusion to believe that simply defining rape in terms of non-consent will put an end to it.”] Le Monde, December 2023.
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« Le féminisme n’est-il qu’une affaire de femmes ? » [tr. “Is Feminism Solely Women’s Business?”], La Déferlante, n°12, novembre 2023.
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« Se réapproprier l’universalisme » [tr. “Reclaiming universalism”], La Déferlante, n°11, septembre 2023.
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« Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ? » [tr. “What Is Philosophy ?”], Libération, June 17th 2023.
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“Pour une politique féministe du travail” [tr. “For a feminist politics of work”], La Déferlante, n°10, avril 2023.
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"Les hommes politiques ont-ils droit à une vie privée ?” [tr. “Are politicians allowed to have a private life?”], La Déferlante, n°9, Jan. 2023.
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“Le droit à l’avortement ne fait pas obstacle à la façon dont la misogynie s’exprime dans la culture française,” Le Monde, June 2022.
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Reprinted in 23 penseuses pour 2023, Paris, Philosophie Magazine éditeur, 2023.
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“It’s Time to Talk about Women’s Submission,” Blog of the American Philosophical Association, April 2021.
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« “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient”, les enjeux d’une phrase culte » [tr. “’One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman’: The Stakes of a Cult Sentence”), La Déferlante, n°1, February 2021.
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« Simone de Beauvoir et les débats du féminisme contemporain » [tr. “Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Debates in Feminism”], Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire, September 2020.
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« Allaiter ou non, le tourbillon des contradictions » [“Breastfeeding or Not”], Psychologie Magazine, June 2020.
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« De l’inégalité des sexes » [“On Gender Inequality”], Le 1, May 2020.
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« Une femme peut-elle dire non? » [“Can a Woman Say No?”] Psychologie Magazine, January 2020.
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« Lire Simone de Beauvoir aujourd’hui » ["Why read Simone de Beauvoir today”], Le Monde, Hors-série Simone de Beauvoir (special issue on Simone de Beauvoir), March 2019.
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« La vérité scientifique, une histoire très genrée » ["Scientific Truth: A Very Gendered History”], Libération, May 2018
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« Les trois problèmes du consentement » ["The Three Problems of Consent"] L’Humanité, Nov. 2017
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« La femme est-elle un homme économique comme les autres? » ["Is Woman a Homo Oeconomicus?”], Multitudes, n°42, Fall 2010.
“Submission is not Submissiveness: Female Submission as a Rational Choice”
- * Groningen PPE Conference, May 2023
“Submission”
- Workshop on Gender and Philosophy Berlin, January 2023
- * Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2021
- Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, September 2020
“Feminism and the Essentially Contested Concept of ‘Woman’” (titles have varied slightly)
- * American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Feb. 2018
- Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, Nov. 2016
- * Conference “What Critique?”, UMass Amherst, April 2016
“The “lived body”: Iris Marion Young heiress of Simone de Beauvoir”
- International Conference on Iris Marion Young, Université Paris 1, May 2017
- “Beauvoir’s Phenomenology and Women’s Submission,” (titles have varied slightly)
- UK Sartre Society conference “Existentialism and the Body”, Oxford, July 2016
- * Symposium of the Boston Phenomenology Circle, April 2016
- * International Workshop “Existentialist Social Philosophy”, Vienna, July 2016
“How to do critical theory without dismissing agents’ voices? The example of Beauvoir”
- 4th Graduate Political Theory Conference, Sciences Po Paris, June 2016
“Is it Necessary for Economics to Take Gender Difference into Account?”
- * 3rd International Conference Economic Philosophy, Aix en Provence, June 2016
- * Growing Apart: The Implications of Economic Inequality, Boston College, April 2016
“Women at Home: an Economic and Philosophical Analysis of Women’s Power in the Household”
- Interdisciplinary Workshop Women and Power, Paris, June 2011