ABSTRACT
Sylviane Agacinski was born on May 4, 1945 in a small village of the Auvergne, near the center of France. She studied philosophy in the mid-1960s at the University of Lyon, taking courses there with Gilles Deleuze (1925-95). In 1968, she came to Paris, worked for a year at Paris Match, the French weekly news and style magazine, and eventually obtained her “Agrégation,” a highly competitive civil service certification which entitled her to become a professor of philosophy within France’s system of public higher education. Since 1991, she has been affiliated with the prestigious École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she has taught a varied series of courses in philosophy as well as courses on many different topics in the history and theory of the arts.
