Pierre-Édouard Deldique welcomes in his magazine Idées: Annabelle Bonnet, sociologist and philosopher, associate researcher at the Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies (EHESS). She publishes: “The beard does not make the philosopher”, at CNRS Éditions.
” What did it mean to be a philosopher in France between 1880 and 1949? It is first and foremost to wear a beard: to be a man. However, Plutarch already challenged anyone to measure the wisdom of the thinker by the length of his hair… This situation is not without causing rebellions, transgressions, sometimes disguises – and, thus, evolutions.
Combining individual and collective battles, this innovative investigation reveals a part of the history of women in the 19e and XXecenturies and brings out a gallery of women philosophers who assert themselves despite obstacles: from Jenny d’Héricourt and Julie Favre to Dina Dreyfus and Simone de Beauvoir, via Jeanne Crouzet, Julie Hasdeu, Clémence Royer, Jeanne Baudry , Léontine Zanta, Alice Steriad, Lucy Prenant, Hélène Metzger, Renée Déjean, Yvonne Picard, Simone Weil or Marguerite Buffard Flavien”, writes the author.