Marie-Anne Lescourret

Marie-Anne Lescourret, HDR in Philosophy. After a first PhD, about Ludwig Wittgenstein, accomplished in Munich, Cornell and Oxford, with the former students of the philosopher, she continued analytical philosophy, translating Wittgenstein from German, Bernard Williams and Michael Dummett from English, while owning her living as a journalist (at the Express). She then turned back to philosophy, aesthetics, which she taught as an Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. Meanwhile, besides an Introduction à l’esthétique (2002), she wrote biographies, of, P. P. Rubes (1990, 2004), Emmanuel Levinas (1994, 1996, 2006), Goethe (1999), Claudel (2003), Bourdieu (2008), Aby Warburg (2014), showing the development of a work in an historicaland intellectual context. She also produced some collective books, the last one about Heidegger’s German Jewish students, La dette et la distance (L’Éclat, 2014), and contributed many articles to publications about musical aesthetics, which she taught at the IRCAM. She was a guest Professor in Campinas (Brazil) and Shanghai, (China), gave conferences in Europe, U.S, Asia. She is currently co-editor of the journal CITES (Presses Universitaires de France).