Haud Guéguen est maîtresse de conférences en philosophie au Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam). Elle a notamment publié, avec Pierre Dardot, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre, Le Choix de la guerre civile. Une autre histoire du néolibéralisme (Lux, 2021). Elle publie aux éditions La Découverte Les théories de la reconnaissance avec Guillaume Malochet en 2012 et La perspective du possible avec Laurent Jeanpierre, en 2022.
The history of possibility, the field of possibilities, the horizon of possibility: invoking “possibility” is a cliché of our time.
Contrary to the claims of popular opinion, there is no shortage of alternatives: the latest news has confirmed as much. How to approach the possibilities of the present and not just those of the past? And how to make this fragile knowledge a weapon for thought, the potential key to a new liberating act? To answer these questions, we must combine the legacies of philosophy and the social sciences to build the history, theory, and means for a new kind of inquiry, doubtless all more necessary since, as with the definition of reality, the definition of possibility is endlessly contested, a central concern and cornerstone of all politics.
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Haud Guéguen lectures in philosophy at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), where she is a member of the DICEN laboratory. With Guillaume Malochet, she has written Les Théories de la reconnaissance (Theories of Recognition, La Découverte, 2014).
Laurent Jeanpierre is a professor of political science at the University of Paris 1 and a member of the Centre for Sociological and Political Research in Paris (CNRS/Université Paris 8/Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense). He is the author of In Girum (La Découverte, 2019) and co-edited, with Christophe Charle, La Vie intellectuelle en France (Intellectual Life in France, Le Seuil, 2016).