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Corine Pelluchon at the French Institute in an image from 2022.JUAN BARBOSA
Corine Pelluchon (Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, 1967) is a philosopher, bioethicist and animal defender.
She has followed a coherent line with her thoughts, always placing herself alongside the vulnerable, against the domination that prevails in the world.
“I am very sensitive to the evil that is exerted on bodies, and I respond with my thoughts,” Pelluchon herself says by phone.
The issues that interest her are—in addition to vulnerability—feminism, speciesism (a discipline in which she is a reference) and the relationship with our own finitude, all of them, she affirms, are signs of a future age that she believes is about to be born. the one who accompanies and announces with his work.
The daughter of farmers, she was a girl in love with poetry and languages who felt an early attraction towards philosophy.
From the age of 15 she wanted to know more about this discipline, of which its rigor and depth acted as a kind of magnet for her.
“I've always been a tracker;
"I can't help but always go to the root of matters."
Her parents understood that they should support their daughter's love for her books, although, when she began her career, her program, “too old-fashioned and banal,” disappointed her.
But she did not give up: she was making her own path.
More information
How to live without being predators?
The ethics of consideration begins with the air I breathe
Pelluchon believes that we should place the relationship with our environment at the center of the political debate.
In
Animalist Manifesto
(Reservoir Books, 2018), he argued that animal rights had to enter Parliament once and for all.
In
Ethics of Consideration
(Herder, recently published) points out how to iron out our difficulties to change a lifestyle typical of a development model that leads us to destruction.
And the French philosopher points out
Ecology as a New Illustration
(2022, Herder) as the one that best summarizes her thoughts.
In this he explains that the world is divided between those who live in domination (labor exploitation, gender violence, animals in macro farms...) and the defenders of consideration (animalists, feminists, supporters of coexistence...), who they support, he affirms, “the lights.”
Her intention is to accompany the latter, to structure her thinking with her work, elaborating a kind of “anthropological revolution.”
Pelluchon, who recognizes herself as liberal and not an enemy of the free market, in addition to being sensitive to pain, is also sensitive to beauty.
She tries to surround herself with pretty things and it is not uncommon to see her dressed in bright fabrics or full of flowers.
She hopes to build a network with other European philosophers and sociologists to share work and investigate issues.
She tried and failed, but she is persevering.
“Of course,” she says, “people need to have less ego.”
Faith of errors
In a previous version of this article it was said that 'Les Lumières à l'âge du vivant' had not been translated into Spanish and was in 2022 by Herder, with the title 'Ecology as a new illustration'.
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