Ethics of Care: Gender Subversion

Sandra Laugier is a Professor of Philosophy at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Deputy Director of the
Humanities & Social Science Institute at the French National Center for Scientific Research, and a regular contributor
to the French newspaper, Libération.

Laugier’s work is marked by an attentiveness to the ordinary, a theme that she developed through her philosophy of
language (Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy, transl. D. Ginsburg, University of Chicago Press, 2013), as
well as in her moral and political philosophy. The co-author of several books on democracy (Le Principe démocratie,
with A. Ogien, La Découverte, 2014), of many articles on popular culture through television series (from The Wire to
Game of Thrones), she is also one of the main contributors to the ethics of care in France (Face aux désastres: le care,
la folie et les grandes détresses collectives, with A. Lovell, S. Pandolfo, V. Das, Ithaque, 2013). Laugier shows how the
ethics of care and its discussion of gender disrupts French universalism and subverts a certain conception of morality,
politics, and feminism.

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