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TV-Philosophy in Action is inspired by philosopher and series-devotee Sandra Laugier’s monthly columns published in the French journal Libération. It is her contribution to the collective reflection on TV series produced by critics, theorists, and the vast mass of individual watchers who evaluate and discuss these programmes every day. The book brings together a selection of articles from Libération, as well as longer pieces, to demonstrate ‘TV-Philosophy in action’: Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to a range of particularly salient TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times. Arranged under a number of important themes—relating to politics, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about our world—the book shows how TV series provide a rich resource for thinking about our lives, and places them centre-stage as works of art, and of thought, in their own right.
Sandra Laugier
Sandra Laugier, a former student at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has also held a number of visiting professorships, including at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, La Sapienza Roma and the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over thirty books, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020), TV-Philosophy (2023), Wittgenstein: The Senses of Use (2025). She is the main translator of Stanley Cavell’s work into French and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.
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