Bøger af Sophie Bourgault

The ethics of hospitality, gift and care have gained much currency over the last few years on both sides of the Atlantic. They seek, each in their own way, to reflect on some of the most pressing contemporary ethico-political issues (e.g. the refugee crisis, unremunerated labor in a market economy, precarity, invisibilized care work).The three ethics draw from different disciplinary and theoretical sources. The ethics of hospitality were strongly influenced by the philosophical work of Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida; the principal source for the ethics of the gift is the anthropological analysis of Marcel Mauss; and the ethics of care have been developed in the wake of American psychologist Carol Gilligan's work. Despite these different underpinnings, the three ethics nonetheless share several concerns and principles, notably the notion that any theory of the social and the political should be anchored in a relational ontology and in an anthropology of vulnerability. As such, it is surprising to observe that few researchers have explored the affinities between these three paradigms (with the notable exceptions of Elena Pulcini, Philipe Chanial and Jacques Godbout).The main objective of the volume is to address this scholarly gap and to initiate a more explicit interdisciplinary dialogue - in French - between these three ethical paradigms. Another goal is to consider the currency of each of these ethics for reflecting on important contemporary issues.Published in French.

In the last decade, interest in the writings of French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) has surged. Weil is admired for her militant syndicalism, her factory experience and participation in the French resistance, but it is above all the eclectic and rich character of her work that has increasingly attracted scholarly attention. Weil reflected on subjects as diverse as quantum physics, Greek tragedy, bankruptcy, colonialism, technology, education, and religious metaphysics, but perhaps most interesting is the way that her work seems to defy any clear ideological labelling: Marxist, anarchist, liberal, conservative and republican all seem to fall short in describing the complexity of Weil¿s thinking. Adding to the interpretive difficulty is the fact that Weil often expressed biting criticisms of most things political. What this edited volume argues is that it is precisely Weil¿s unclassifiable nature, combined with her sharp and sometimes ambivalent criticismsof politics, that make her work a most timely and fascinating object of study for contemporary political philosophy. It proposes a two-pronged approach to her thought: first, via a series of conversations set up between Weil and key authors in modern and contemporary political theory (e.g. Sandel, Rawls, Ahmed, Agamben, Orwell); and secondly, via a close study of Weil¿s reflections on various ideologies. The goal of this book is not to position Simone Weil squarely within a single ideological tradition but rather to propose that her thought might allow us to critically engage with various ideologies in the history of political ideas.