Corine Pelluchon

Corine Pelluchon is a professor at Gustave Eiffel University in the Paris region and a specialist in political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly medical, environmental, and animal ethics. She has developed a philosophy of corporeality focused on vulnerability and our shared habitation of the Earth with other living beings. Drawing on phenomenology, her work connects philosophical anthropology with political theory and places ecology and animal rights at the centre of ethics and politics.

She is the author of numerous internationally translated books and has received several distinctions, including the Günther Anders Prize for Critical Thinking and the Dr. Leopold-Lucas Prize (2025). In 2021, she was named Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

Her recent publications include Les Lumières à l’âge du vivant (2021), L’être et la mer. Pour un existentialisme écologique (2024), and La démocratie sans emprise ou la puissance du féminin (2025; German translation forthcoming from Beck in 2026 under the title Die weibliche Macht. Ideen zu einer Demokratie ohne Herrschaft).