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Catherine Larrère
in 2015
Born
Catherine Delafoss

4 August, 1944
NationalityFrance
Occupation(s)Philosopher and academic
Known forenvironmental philosophy
SpouseRaphaël Larrère

Catherine Larrère (born 4 August, 1944 as Catherine Delafoss) is a French philosopher & academic. She is a Professor of philosophy emeritus (at Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne). She is a specialist in Montesquieu's philosophy and an advocate for environmental ethics.

Life

Larrère was born in La Rochelle in 1944.

Research

She first became interested in the history of economics, then in the philosopher Montesquieus ideas. In the 1990s she met and wasinspired by John Baird Callicott the American academic concerned with environmental ethics. She became an expert and was an advocate for similar British and American research.[1] She translated works by John Baird Callicott into French.[2].

She has participated in the development of environmental philosophy, particularly in the areas of nature protection, risk prevention and environmental justice. She collaborates with her husband, the agronomist and ecologist Raphaël Larrère.

Publications

  • L'invention de l'économie au XVIIIe siècle : du droit naturel à la physiocratie, Paris, Puf, coll. « Léviathan », 1992. (thèse de doctorat)
  • Les philosophies de l'environnement. Presses universitaires de France. ISBN ISBN 978-2-13-048402-8. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Du bon usage de la nature : pour une philosophie de l'environnement, with Raphaël Larrère, Paris, Aubier, coll. « Alto » 1997.
  • La crise environnementale(with Raphaël Larrère), Paris, Éditions de l'INRA, 1997.
  • Actualité de Montesquieu, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1999.
  • Lumières et commerce : l'exemple bordelais, with Jean Mondot, New York, P. Lang, 2000.
  • Nature vive, Paris, Nathan-Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2000 ISBN 978-2-09-260841-8.
  • L'écologie est politique, avec Lucile Schmid et Olivier Frossard, Les Petits matins, 2013 ISBN 978-2-36383-112-5.
  • L'éthique de la vie chez Hans Jonas, with Éric Pommier, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013.
  • Y a-t-il du sacré dans la nature ? (sous la direction de Catherine Larrère et Bérengère Hurand), Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2014.
  • Penser et agir avec la nature : une enquête philosophique, with Raphaël Larrère, Paris, La Découverte, 2015 ISBN 9782707185716.
  • Les inégalités environnementales, Paris, Puf, coll. « La vie des idées », 2017 ISBN 978-2130650713.
  • Bulles technologiques, with Raphaël Larrère, Marseille, Wildproject Editions, 2017.
  • Penser l'anthropocène (sous la direction de Catherine Larrère et Rémi Beau), Paris, Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2018.


References

  1. ^ "Biographie". humanite-biodiversite.fr (in French)..
  2. ^ "L'âge écologique de la culture". wildproject.org (in French)..