Queval Isabelle

Biography

Maîtresse de conférences at the University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Department of Education Sciences Authorized to conduct research, HDR theme: "Corporeal excellence and education: criticism of the paradigm of perfectibility" Doctor of Sciences of Education Degree in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Political and Legal Philosophy Philosophy Associate Researcher at the Center for Research in Ethics and Society (CERSES UMR 8137) Associate researcher at the Edgar Morin Center (IIAC-EHESS UMR 8177) in the team "Body, individual, society", , The twenty-first century confirms a revolution: the perfectibility of the body is realized by the implementation of unprecedented medical and technical means. Medicalization of birth, prevention of public hygiene, pharmacology, cosmetology, surgery, worship of "self-maintenance": the will, or the fantasy, of a production of the body is formed. The theme of human improvement is now archetypal and engages in a new reflection on education, including body education: what are its norms, models and purposes, whereas the notion of " wellness "is systematically translated into" well-being "and" excellence "into" surpassing oneself. " The search for I. Queval, of a theoretical nature, borrowing from the texts of philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, pedagogy, aims to highlight three main points. On the one hand, it is a question of examining the presuppositions and consequences of the upheavals that take place in the 18th century and allow the advent of the idea of ​​"perfectibility" and especially of "perfectibility corporelle". On the other hand, we must consider how the "body revolution" proceeds from a history of Western rationality and aims at producing programmed bodies today. Finally, it is a question of understanding how mentalities and morals are influenced by new bodily norms, these norms constituting a culture, whose normativity is precisely an educational question. it is a question of examining the presuppositions and consequences of the upheavals that take place in the eighteenth century and allow the advent of the idea of ​​"perfectibility" and especially of "perfectibility corporelle". On the other hand, we must consider how the "body revolution" proceeds from a history of Western rationality and aims at producing programmed bodies today. Finally, we need to understand how mentalities and morals are influenced by new bodily norms, these norms constituting a culture, whose normativity is precisely an educational question. it is a question of examining the presuppositions and consequences of the upheavals that take place in the eighteenth century and allow the advent of the idea of ​​"perfectibility" and especially of "perfectibility corporelle". On the other hand, we must consider how the "body revolution" proceeds from a history of Western rationality and aims at producing programmed bodies today. Finally, we need to understand how mentalities and morals are influenced by new bodily norms, these norms constituting a culture, whose normativity is precisely an educational question. The theme of the body is central: analysis of sport and the way it symbolizes the cult of performance, the sportivisation of manners and bodies, or the artificialisation of the body in our society; analysis of the processes of rationalization applied to the body up to the contemporary fantasy of "producing the body"; analysis of the place of the body in the surveillance technologies of individuals. Several main concepts guide his research: the transcendence of the self, the rational body, the increased body, traceability.

Research Interest

he theme of perfectibility throughout the history of bodily practices, and in particular in education. • Sport, the history of representations of bodily excellence and transcending oneself, the philosophical and ethical meanings of doping, the ethics of early athletes. • Contemporary representations of the body, in particular on the following topics: the history of Western rationality applied to the body, the process of subjectivation, the technicization of the body and its "improvement", the new temporalities of the body, norms and discourses applied to the body and their modes of transmission. • The philosophical and ethical consequences of new technologies applied to the body in processes of medical knowledge and surveillance of individuals.