Pierre Charbonnier
Pierre Charbonnier is a French philosopher. His main fields of work are political philosophy and environmental philosophy.
He studied at the École Normale Supérieure. He did his PhD in philosophy and works as a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.[1] He also coordinates a seminar about environmental theories at the Paris Nanterre University.[2]
His work primarily deals with the development of political ideas and their dependence on the availability and use of environmental resources. His thinking is indebted to theorists such as Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss and Philippe Descola. In particular his book "Abondance et Liberté" (2021, English: "Affluence and Freedom") has received widespread attention.[3][4][5][6][7] Besides French and English, it has been published in Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Publications[edit]
- with Philippe Descola, La Fin d'un grand partage (CNRS, 2015).
- La Composition des mondes (Flammarion, 2014).
- Abondance et liberté (La Découverte, 2019; in English, Affluence and Freedom, Polity Press, 2021).
References[edit]
- ^ "Pierre Charbonnier | Sciences Po Annuaire des membres du CEE". 12 February 2021.
- ^ "Pierre Charbonnier". 21 February 2017.
- ^ Gümplová, Petra (2024). "Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas". Contemporary Political Theory. 23 (2): 331–335. doi:10.1057/s41296-022-00596-z.
- ^ Battistoni, Alyssa (23 June 2022). "Freedom and Catastrophe". New Left Review (135): 143–151.
- ^ Disch, Lisa (2022). "Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas. By Pierre Charbonnier. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2021. 327p. $74.95 cloth, $28.95 paper". Perspectives on Politics. 20 (4): 1425–1426. doi:10.1017/S1537592722002249.
- ^ Paltrinieri, Luca (9 May 2023). "Autonomy: A Return to Earth". Books & Ideas.
- ^ Cussen, Oliver (2 March 2023). "Cities of Fire and Smoke". London Review of Books. 45 (5).