Episode 19 - Love and/of Philosophy with Jeanne Proust

Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 12 years in the US. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives, but her interests are wide: among many fields, she does research in Ethics, Philosophy of Technologies, Bioethics, Feminist theory, and Aesthetics. While teaching at different universities in New York, Jeanne is advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She taught at Rikers Island as a volunteer, and regularly gives public talks in philosophy, leading her to recently produce her own podcast, "Can You Phil It?”. She also collaborates with artists on her photography, drawing and painting works. She is currently working on articles at the crossroads of philosophy and psychology, and starting a new book project about contrasting feminist views on female sexual desire.

 

https://jeanneproust.github.io/index.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-proust-74162b40/

https://www.instagram.com/can_you_phil_it_/?hl=fr

Jeanne recently published an essay about FOMO in Nouma Magazine: https://www.noemamag.com/a-remedy-for-fomo/

 

Sources that came up in our conversation:

Philosophical podcasts:

LSD (French): https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/lsd-la-serie-documentaire 

Philosophize This: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ 

BBC's In Our Time: Philosophy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f0vzr/episodes/downloads 

Rani Lill Anjum's Introduction to Philosophy syllabus in podcast episodes: https://ranilillanjum.com/introduction-to-philosophy-syllabus-in-podcast-episodes/ 

 

Smellosophy: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983694

Invisible Demons documentary: https://mk2films.com/en/film/invisible-demons/ 

Virginie Despendes, "King Kong Theory" https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/king-kong-theory 

Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: (translation of La Penseé et le Mouvement): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208057.The_Creative_Mind 

 

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