Can we think beyond nature and culture in this era of climate crisis? This is the philosophical revolution that anthropologist Philippe Descola has embarked upon. In this discussion moderated by Martin Legros, he will look back on his career, how he developed his ideas, and the implications of his thinking on ecology.

Philippe Descola is an anthropologist. A philosopher by training and a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss, he taught at the Collège de France (until 2019) and was director of studies at EHESS. Philippe Descola is notably the author of Lances du crépuscule (Plon, Terre humaine, 1993) and Par-delà nature et culture (Gallimard, 2005), in which he summarises conceptions of nature throughout the ages and proposes moving beyond the nature/culture opposition. In 2021, he published Les Formes du visible (The Forms of the Visible) with Éditions du Seuil. After contributing to the ethnology of the Amazon, based in particular on studies of the Achuar people, Philippe Descola has for several years devoted himself to the comparative anthropology of relations between humans and non-humans and, more recently, to the anthropology of images.

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