Abstract

amy allen pierre cassou-noguès is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philos- is full Professor in the Department of Philos- ophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality ophy at the University of Paris 8. His research Studies, and Head of the Philosophy Depart- primarily concerns the history of philosophy ment at Penn State. Her most recent book is in France, around Cavailles̀ and Merleau- The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Norma- Ponty. He has recently published Un labora- tive Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia toire philosophique: Cavaillese ̀ tl’episte ́ molo- ́ UP, 2016). She is currently working on a book gie en France (Vrin, 2017). In his other on psychoanalysis and critical social theory. works, Cassou-Nogues̀ emphasizes the role of fiction for a speculative philosophy. He uses fiction as a philosophical tool in order to giuseppe bianco explore domains that have been repressed by is a researcher at the Universidade de Sao Paulo the philosophical tradition such as wasted time ́ ́ and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (La Melodie ́ du tic-tac; Flammarion, 2013), or Sociales in Paris. Author of Apres̀ Bergson the seaside (Metaphy ́ sique d’un bord de mer; (PUF, 2015), he has published on