Agnès Antoine

Biography

Associate of Modern Letters, Doctor of Political Studies qualified as Lecturer of the Universities in Philosophy and Political Sciences (2003). After teaching at the University of Lille II, and the United States where she was Deputy Director of the Institute of French Studies and Assistant Professor at the New York University , Agnès Antoine joined the EHESS and the Center Raymond Aron in 1998. His research has focused first on the nature of democracy understood as both a cultural and social regime of collective existence and as a political regime. She worked on this anthropology of modernity from the contemporaries of the birth of egalitarian society - the French thinkers of the first half of the nineteenth century and, in particular, Tocqueville, object of his thesis. She has been particularly interested in the question of the effects of the "disenchantment of the world" in terms of social bond, ethics and meaning, and the romantic critique of the rationalist anthropology of the Enlightenment. In recent years, she has deepened her research by introducing into her work the psychoanalytic approach. Still in the perspective of a dialectic between the individual dimension and the socio-political dimension, she is currently working on the elaboration of a renewed anthropology and a reflection on the new balance of civilization resulting from the advances in democratic dynamics. His work aims to explore further the question of sensitivity, imagination and corporeality, and, on the other hand, that of the feminine symbolic dimension, with the empirical and theoretical means of exploration now derived from psychoanalysis , anthropology-ethnology and life sciences, and with the support of pictorial and cinematographic art. Agnès Antoine received the Auguste Comte thesis prize in 2005 and the 2004 Gegner Philosophy Award from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. She is a psychoanalyst member of the International College of Anthropology and Psychoanalysis (CIPA).

Research Interest

Psychoanalysis Philosophy of Culture Political and moral philosophy General anthropology Philosophy of Religion History of nineteenth-century ideas