Anne Boissiere

A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and agrégée in philosophy, Anne Boissière is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Lille in France. She is a member of the Centre d’Étude des Arts Contemporains, of which she was the director from 2008 to 2012. 

Her philosophical work is situated at the crossroads between Critical Theory, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Starting from music, her interest first focused on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno, in its connection with the changes in 20th-century art. In a more general way, the question of movement, linked to issues of feeling, stands at the centre of her current reflection, which gives an important place to dialogue with the ideas of Erwin Straus. Her latest research has moved on to the spatiality of playing, thereby featuring improvisations and the dimension of voice. 

In addition, she regularly collaborated with the Musée d’art moderne d’art contemporain d’art brut de Lille Métropole (LaM) and its department of Art Brut. She is the Author of L'art et le vivant du jeu, préface de Michel Guérin, Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2023; Le mouvement à l’œuvre, Entre jeu et art, Sesto San Giovanni, Mimesis, 2018; Chanter Narrer Danser, Contribution à une philosophie du sentir, Sampzon, Delatour France, 2016 ; Musique Mouvement, Paris, Manucius, 2014 ; La pensée musicale de Theodor W. Adorno, l’épique et le temps, Paris, Beauchesne, 2011 ; Adorno, la vérité de la musique moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. She was the guest editor of  « Actualités d’Adorno », Rue Descartes/23, Collège international de philosophie, mars 1999, Paris, PUF, as well as co-editor, with Mathieu Duplay, of Vie, Symbole, Mouvement ; Susanne Langer et la danse, éditions De l’Incidence, 2012 ; avec Véronique Fabbri, Anne Volvey, Activité artistique et spatialité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010; with Catherine Kintzler, of Approche philosophique du geste dansé, de l’improvisation à la performance, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2006.