French philosopher, has taught French Literature at Hollins College (Virginia) and the University of Saarbrücken (Saarland) and then in the philosophy and human sciences department at the University of Amiens in France.
She studied philosophy and anthropology in Paris, Tübingen, and Bonn, wrote extensively on metaphysics, philosophy of language, Rousseau, Hegel, Nietzsche, and on Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan.
Preoccupied with method in a range of philosophical disciplines, she has done intensive research especially on the symbolic function with applications in political discourse, psychoanalysis, epistemology and published many books in France.
