Sylviane Agacinski

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Sylviane Agacinski
Sylviane Agacinski in 2008
Born
Sylviane Agacinski

(1945-05-04) 4 May 1945 (age 78)
Nades, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationPhilosopher
Spouse
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(m. 1994)​

Sylviane Agacinski-Jospin (born 4 May 1945) is a French philosopher,

École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and wife of Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France. Her theoretical articulation of parity inspired the French law which requires every political party to fill 50 percent of all candidacies in every seat with women.[1]

Family life

Agacinski's parents were immigrants from Poland, and her sister is French actress Sophie Agacinski.[2][3] Agacinski is the mother of a son by philosopher Jacques Derrida, who directed the EHESS, and she became the stepmother of Lionel Jospin's two children with their marriage.[2][4]

Sylviane Agacinski with husband Lionel Jospin, 2008.

Lionel Jospin

Agacinski met Jospin in 1983, at her sister Sophie's wedding. They married 11 years later. She stayed on the sidelines in Jospin's

French left's internal rivalries.[5]

Philosophy

As a feminist philosopher, Agacinski is associated with "differentialism", an important strain of French feminism, which argues that the human condition cannot be understood in any universal way without reference to both sexes.[6] She's cited as writing, "We want to keep the freedom to seduce and be seduced. There will never be a war of the sexes in France," in her 1998 book, Sexual Politics.[7][8]

Parité amendment

In 1999, Agacinski was a leading originator of a bill to amend article three of the

National Front was among the few parties to come close to meeting the law, with 49% female candidates; Jospin's Socialists had 36%, and Chirac's UMP had 19.6%.[11]

Bibliography

  • Aparté. Conceptions et morts de Søren Kierkegaard, Aubier, 1978
  • Critique de l'égocentrisme. La question de l'Autre, Galilée, 1994
  • Volume. Philosophie et politique de l'architecture, Galilée, 1996
  • Le Drame des sexes. Ibsen, Strindberg, Bergman, Seuil, coll. « Librairie du XXIe siècle », 2008
  • Corps en miettes, éd. Flammarion, 2009. Critique de la marchandisation du corps humain.
  • L’homme désincarné. Du corps charnel au corps fabriqué, Gallimard, coll. Tracts, 2019

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-231-11566-7
    .
  2. ^
    New York Times
    . Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  3. ^ "Wives provide contrast in French race", Hugh Schofield, 25 March 2002, BBC News. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  4. ^ "Obituary:Jacques Derrida", by Derek Attridge and Thomas Baldwin, The Guardian, October 11, 2004. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  5. New York Times
    . Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  6. New York Times
    . Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  7. Washington Post
    blog, October 21, 2009. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  8. Washington Post
    , Sunday, June 3, 2001; Page B01. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  9. ^ "Boost to equality in French politics", by Jon Henley, The Guardian, 6 March 1999. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  10. ^ "Liberty, Equality, Sorority", by Jane Kramer, The New Yorker, May 29, 2000. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.
  11. ^ "Le Pen and his feminine side" by Clare Murphy, 28 May 2002, BBC News. Retrieved Jan 19, 2010.

External links

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