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Cynthia Fleury

Cynthia Fleury, Professor of the « Humanities and Health » Chair at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, is also an associate professor at the École des Mines (PSL/Mines-Paristech). Her research focuses on the tools of democratic regulation.

She is the author of several works, including Dialoguing with the East (PUF, 2003), The Pathologies of Democracy(Fayard, 2005; Paperback 2009), The End of Courage (Fayard, 2010; Paperback, 2011), The Irreplaceables (Gallimard, 2015), and Here Lies Bitterness (2020).

She has taught for a long time at the École Polytechnique and Sciences Po (Paris). She was the president of the NGO Europanova, which organized the Citizens’ Convention for Europe (the largest gathering of European civil society). She currently serves as its vice-president. Upon joining the CCNE (National Consultative Ethics Committee) in 2013, she became its youngest member. She is also a founding member of the European Network of Women Philosophers of UNESCO. As a psychoanalyst, she is the patron of ICCARRE (the intermittent treatment protocol for HIV) and a member of the emergency medical-psychological unit of SAMU (CUMP-Necker).

After founding the Chair of Philosophy at the Hospital (Hôtel-Dieu Paris), she is now the holder of the Chair of Philosophy at the GHU Paris Psychiatry and Neurosciences. Cynthia Fleury was chosen to be the associated personality of Les Champs Libres in Rennes from 2018 to 2021.