Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manon Garcia
Institute:
Subject:
Practical philosophy, research interests: political philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral philosophy, phenomenology and philosophy of the social sciences (esp. economics)
Assistant Professor
14195 Berlin
Office hours
Consultations by appointment with the secretary of Barbara Baldacci.
Vita
Manon Garcia has been teaching as an assistant professor at Freie Universität Berlin since the winter semester 2022/23. After studying at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, she received her PhD in philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2017. In recent years, she has held teaching positions at Université Paris 1, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Her second book, La Conversation des sexes: Philosophie du consentement, was published in October 2021.
Since 2022 |
Junior Professor in Practical Philosophy (W1 to W3), Freie Universität Berlin |
2021-2022 |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure Track), Yale University |
2019-2021 |
Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University |
2018-2019 |
Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
2017-2018 |
Edmond J. Safra Post-Doctoral Fellow-in-Residence, Lecturer of Philosophy, Harvard University |
Juli 2017 |
Ph.D. at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Thesis: Consenting to One’s Submission: A Philosophical Problem |
2016-2018 |
Visiting Fellow at institute for philosophy, Harvard University |
2014-2015 |
Teacher for philosophy at the Lycée Rodin, Paris |
2014 |
Agrégation de philosophie (The most selective competitive examination in philosophy in France) |
2011 |
M.A. in philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne Thesis 1 (M1): The Concept of Pleasure in Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality Thesis 2 (M2): Patriarchy, Contract and Submission in Carole Pateman’s Work |
2010 |
M.S. in Economics & Public Policy, SciencesPo/Polytechnique/ENSAE Thesis : Women’s Empowerment in Economic Development |
2006-2010 |
Philosophy and Economics, École Normale Supérieure |
Teaching experience
As a primary instructor
Ø The Second Sex and its philosophical influences (FU, MA-Seminar, SoSe 2023)
Ø Introduction to Practical Philosophy (FU, BA-Seminar, SoSe 2023)
Ø Existentialism (FU, MA-Seminar, WiSe 2022)
Ø The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Yale, Graduate Seminar, Spring 22; FU, BA Seminar, WiSo 2022)
Ø Directed Studies: Philosophy (Yale, Undergraduate, Spring 22)
Ø Power, Identity, Resistance II and III (University of Chicago, Winter and Spring 2019)
Ø Introduction to French philosophy of the 20th century (Sciences Po, Summer School 2016)
Ø Full time philosophy teacher in French high school (Lycée Rodin, Paris, 2014-2015)
Ø Philosophical Methods 2nd year (Université Paris 1, Spring ‘14, taught twice)
Ø Translation and Comment: Arendt’s Political Works (Université Paris 1, Spring ‘14)
Ø Philosophy of Social Sciences (Université Paris 1, Spring ‘13)
Ø Introduction to Social Contract Theory, 1st year (Université Paris 1, Spring ‘13)
Ø Philosophical Methods 1st year (Université Paris 1, Fall ‘12)
Ø Freedom, 2nd year (Université Paris 1, Fall ‘11)
Courses in winter 2023/24:
Seminar on Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Englisch)
Seminar on Sex, Libido, and the Feminine: on Psychoanalysis and its Critiques (Englisch)
Courses taught in summer 2023:
Seminar on Introduction to Practical Philosophy (English)
Hauptseminar on The Second Sex and its influences
Courses taught in winter 2022/2023:
Seminar on Simone de Beauvoir
Seminar on Existentialism (Englisch)
Main fields of work:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manon Garcia's research focuses on feminist moral and political philosophy, philosophy of consent, theories of submission, subordination, and oppression, philosophy of the social sciences (esp. economics), 20th-century French philosophy, and phenomenology in particular existentialism.
On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient, Paris, Flammarion, 2018.
- I authored a revised and extended English version, entitled We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published by Princeton University Press in 2021.
- Published in translation by Siglo XXI (Mexico and Argentina, 2021), Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany, 2021), Tao Zhi Yao Yao (China). Forthcoming in translation with Misuzu Shobo (Japan), Ecolivres (South Korea), Minotor (Turkey), and Nottetempo (Italy).
- Finalist of the Prix lycéen de philosophie
- Reviews (academic): Mind; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; European Journal of Philosophy; Contemporary Political Theory; Journal of Value Inquiry; International Social Science Review; Simone de Beauvoir Studies; Gender, Work, and Organization; Philosophiques; Nouvelles Questions Féministes; Women in French Studies; American Philosophical Association Eastern Author-Meets-Critics (2021).
- Reviews (popular): Le Monde, Libération, Corriere della Serra, El País, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (among others)
La Conversation des sexes: Philosophie du consentement, Paris, Flammarion, October 2021.
- Received the Prix 2022 of the Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco; was selected in the 21 best books of 2021 by Télérama and in the 12 best "essais" (non-fiction books) of 2021 by Libération.
- I authored a revised English version, entitled The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex, forthcoming with Harvard University Press on October 3rd 2023.
- Published in translation by Einaudi (Italia, June ’22). Forthcoming in translation with Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany), Krtina (Slovenian), and Aliansi Buku Indonesia (Indonesian).
- Reviews (academic): Gender, Work, and Organization; Cahiers du Genre; Laval théologique et philosophique; Philosophiques; topic of a two-day conference at the Université du Québec, Trois Rivières (2022).
- Reviews (popular): Le Monde, Libération, Philosophie Magazine, L’Obs, Morgenbladet, La Reppublica (among others)
In progress: Beauvoir for The Routledge Philosophers Series with Routledge.
- With Julie Mazaleigue-Labaste and Alicia-Dorothy Mornington (eds.), Envers et revers du consentement, Paris, Mare & Martin, Spring 2023.
- Textes-clés de philosophie féministe: Patriarcat, savoirs, justice, Paris, Vrin, 2021.
Review (academic journal): GLAD ; La Vie des Idées - With Raphaël Ehrsam, “Perspectives Philosophiques sur Le Deuxième Sexe de Simone de Beauvoir paru il y a 70 ans”, Philosophie, n° 144, January 2020 (first journal issue in French devoted to Beauvoir as a philosopher).
- “Masculinity as an impasse. Beauvoir’s understanding of men’s situation in The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Vol. 32 (2), 2022, pp.187-206.
- “BDSM”, Clare Chambers, Brian Earp, and Lori Watson (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex, Milton: Taylor and Francis, 2022, pp. 437-451.
- “From Oppression to Independence: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love in The Second Sex” (« De l’oppression à l’indépendance. La philosophie de l’amour dans Le Deuxième Sexe »), Philosophie, n° 144, 2020, pp. 48-63.
Translated in Portuguese (Plural, 28(2), 2021, pp.184-202) and in Italian (Philosophy Kitchen, Rivista di filosofia contemporanea, n°16, 2022, pp.139-153) - “Living Philosophy: Beauvoir’s Memoirs as a philosophical ‘œuvre’” (« Vivre la philosophie : les Mémoires comme œuvre philosophique »), Littérature, n° 191, 2018, pp. 53-67.
In progress:
- “La servitude volontaire n’est pas la soumission consentie : l’approche morale de La Boétie et ses limites”, in Camille Chevalier and J-L. Lantoine (eds.), La Servitude volontaire et ses avatars.
- “Submission”
- “Submission is not Submissiveness: Female Submission as a Rational Choice”
Book reviews/Prefaces:
- Preface to the French translation of Judith Coffin’s Sex, Love, and Letters – Sexe, amour et féminisme, Paris, Plon, May 2023.
- Preface to the French translation of Kate Kirkpatrick’s Becoming Beauvoir – Devenir Beauvoir: Une vie de liberté, Paris, Flammarion, 2020.
- Review of Sonia Kruks’ Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford University Press, 2012), Revue française de science politique, 65 (4), 2015, p. 681-682.
Public Philosophy
- “Les hommes politiques ont-ils droit à une vie privée ?” [tr. “Are politicians allowed to have a private life?”], La Déferlante, n°9, Jan. 2023.
- “Le droit à l’avortement ne fait pas obstacle à la façon dont la misogynie s’exprime dans la culture française,” Le Monde, June 2022.
Reprinted in 23 penseuses pour 2023, Paris, Philosophie Magazine éditeur, 2023. - “It’s Time to Talk about Women’s Submission,” Blog of the American Philosophical Association, April 2021.
- « “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient”, les enjeux d’une phrase culte » [tr. “’One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman’: The Stakes of a Cult Sentence”), La Déferlante, n°1, February 2021.
- « Simone de Beauvoir et les débats du féminisme contemporain » [tr. “Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Debates in Feminism”], Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire, September 2020.
- « Allaiter ou non, le tourbillon des contradictions » [“Breastfeeding or Not”], Psychologie Magazine, June 2020.
- « De l’inégalité des sexes » [“On Gender Inequality”], Le 1, May 2020.
- « Une femme peut-elle dire non? » [“Can a Woman Say No?”] Psychologie Magazine, January 2020.
- « Lire Simone de Beauvoir aujourd’hui » ["Why read Simone de Beauvoir today”], Le Monde, Hors-série Simone de Beauvoir (special issue on Simone de Beauvoir), March 2019.
- « La vérité scientifique, une histoire très genrée » ["Scientific Truth: A Very Gendered History”], Libération, May 2018
- « Les trois problèmes du consentement » ["The Three Problems of Consent"] L’Humanité, Nov. 2017
- « La femme est-elle un homme économique comme les autres? » ["Is Woman a Homo Oeconomicus?”], Multitudes, n°42, Fall 2010.
“Submission is not Submissiveness: Female Submission as a Rational Choice”
- * Groningen PPE Conference, May 2023
“Submission”
- Workshop on Gender and Philosophy Berlin, January 2023
- * Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2021
- Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, September 2020
“Feminism and the Essentially Contested Concept of ‘Woman’” (titles have varied slightly)
- * American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Feb. 2018
- Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, Nov. 2016
- * Conference “What Critique?”, UMass Amherst, April 2016
“The “lived body”: Iris Marion Young heiress of Simone de Beauvoir”
- International Conference on Iris Marion Young, Université Paris 1, May 2017
- “Beauvoir’s Phenomenology and Women’s Submission,” (titles have varied slightly)
- UK Sartre Society conference “Existentialism and the Body”, Oxford, July 2016
- * Symposium of the Boston Phenomenology Circle, April 2016
- * International Workshop “Existentialist Social Philosophy”, Vienna, July 2016
“How to do critical theory without dismissing agents’ voices? The example of Beauvoir”
- 4th Graduate Political Theory Conference, Sciences Po Paris, June 2016
“Is it Necessary for Economics to Take Gender Difference into Account?”
- * 3rd International Conference Economic Philosophy, Aix en Provence, June 2016
- * Growing Apart: The Implications of Economic Inequality, Boston College, April 2016
“Women at Home: an Economic and Philosophical Analysis of Women’s Power in the Household”
- Interdisciplinary Workshop Women and Power, Paris, June 2011