CONSTRUIRE
Construire features the philosopher Sandra Laugier and the novelist Céline Minard, who both play a unique role in building worlds and relationships with worlds that are simultaneously tangible yet imaginary in ways that are logical, pragmatic, and fantastical.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sandra LAUGIER
Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris I and director of the Centre for Contemporary Philosophy at the Sorbonne. She specialises in the philosophy of language and moral philosophy. She has written numerous essays including L’anthropologie logique de Quine (Vrin, 1992), Recommencer la philosophie: la philosophie américaine aujourd’hui (PUF, 1999), Une autre pensée politique américaine: la démocratie radicale, de R. W. Emerson à S. Cavell (Michel Houdiard, 2004), Wittgenstein. Le mythe de l’inexpressivité (Vrin, 2010), and Recommencer la philosophie. Stanley Cavell et la philosophie en Amérique (Vrin, 2014). She has also co-authored two books with the sociologist,Albert Ogien, Pourquoi désobéir en démocratie? (2010), and Le principe démocratie (2014), both published by La Découverte. She has been at the forefront of the movement to bring Care Studies to France, publishing a number of works in the field, including Tous vulnérables. Le care, les animaux et l’environnement (Payot, 2012). She is a member of the editorial team for the journal Multitudes and regularly contributes a column to Libération.
Céline MINARD
Céline Minard’s novels reveal a breadth of scope, grasp of key issues, and mastery of technique that make her one of the most exciting novelists working today, thanks to her skill in building, developing, and breathing new life into fictional realms. Her works include R. (Comp’Act, 2004), La Manadologie (Musica Falsa, 2005), Le Dernier Monde (Denoël 2007), Bastard battle (Léo Scheer, 2008), Olimpia (Denoël, 2010), So Long, Luise (Denoël, 2011), and Faillir être flingué (Rivages, 2013, awarded the Prix du Livre Inter). She has also designed two books with the visual artist scomparo, Les Ales (Cambourakis, 2011) and KA TA (Rivages, 2014).