Buci-Glucksmann, Christine

Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a philosopher, professor emerita of the University of Paris VIII, and the author of many books in the fields of political philosophy, aesthetics, contemporary art, the baroque, ornament, Asian art, and virtual art. Her most recent works include "Esthetique de l'ephemere" (2003), "Au-dela de la melancholie" (2005), "Philosophie de l'ornement: D'Orient en Occident" (2008), and "Une femme philosophe" (2008). Two of her books have previously been translated into English: "Gramsci and the State" (1980) and "Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity" (1994).