"To philosophize is to learn to die," said Montaigne. But, faced with the vertiginous immensity of philosophy, sometimes we'd rather die than learn. In need of help? Trust Catherine Meurisse to illuminate neon and nothingness and to air out Plato's cave. The most famous philosophers flow from her observant pen: Aristotle, Nietzsche, Cioran, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel, Deleuze, Beauvoir, Arendt, Marx... The cartoonist takes the opportunity to rail against the predominance of men in the world of ideas. Handling philosophical concepts with rigor and humor, dispelling myths, Man and Superwoman sketches out a different way to think and be in the world.
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Meurisse Catherine
Catherine Meurisse was born in 1980. After her initial studies in contemporary literature, she went to the Ecole Estienne followed by Arts Déco in Paris to specialize in design and the graphic arts. By 2005, she had joined the team at French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo," as well as illustrating for other publications such as "Libération," "Marianne," "Les Échos," and "L'Obs," and publishers like Bayard, Gallimard, Nathan, and Sarbacane. Over the years, she has also authored a number of graphic novels, including "Savoir-vivre ou mourir" (2010, Les Échapées), "Drôles de femmes" (2010, Dargaud), and "Moderne Olympia" (2014, Futuropolis). And in 2016, she published the remarkable "La Légèreté" (Dargaud; "Lightness," Europe Comics), the tale of her return to life and to art following the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. In 2018, she released the endearing and thought-provoking graphic novel "Les Grands Espaces" (Dargaud; "The Great Outdoors," Europe Comics). The year after, she published "Delacroix," a very personal graphic adaptation of the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas, a great friend of the painter Eugène Delacroix. In 2020, the year in which a major retrospective was dedicated to her at the Centre Pompidou Library, Catherine Meurisse became the first comic book author to be a member of the Académie des beaux-arts. "La jeune femme et la mer" (Dargaud; "The Young Woman and the Sea," Europe Comics) questions the place of Man in nature and the use of art to capture disappearing landscapes. The year 2022 saw the publication of "Humaine, trop humaine," a collection of scenes featuring the central figures in the history of philosophy, exposed with humor, absurdity, and acerbic wit by Meurisse (Dargaud 2022 for the original edition, Europe Comics 2024 for the English edition under the title "Man and Superwoman").
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