Prof. Dr. Manon Garcia

I am a professor of practical philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. My primary research is in political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and moral philosophy. I also work on 20th century French philosophy and philosophy of social sciences. I am one of ten laureates to be awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2025, Germany’s most distinguished award for early-career researchers.

My first book, We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives was first published in French as On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient by Flammarion in 2018. I authored an English version published by Princeton University Press. It has also been translated in German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Italian. 

My second book, The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex was published in French as La Conversation des sexes: Philosophie du consentement by Flammarion in 2021. The English version was published by Harvard University Press in October 2023. Translations in Italian, German, Dutch, and Slovenian have been published and translations in Polish, Spanish, Chinese, and Indonesian are forthcoming. It won the Prix 2022 of the Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco. 

My latest book, Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial, was published as Vivre avec les hommes: Réflections sur le procès Pelicot by Flammarion in 2025. It already exists in Italian, Spanish, Polish, and German. English, Catalan, Romanian, Tamil, and Portuguese translations are forthcoming.

I also edited a reader of feminist philosophy entitled Textes-clés de philosophie féministe: Patriarcat, savoirs, justice and published by Vrin in 2021 and translated and prefaced of Serene Khader’s book Decolonizing Universalism into French (Éliott, 2026).

Born and raised in France, I am a former student of the École Normale Supérieure and received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. I held positions as an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard, a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an assistant professor of philosophy at Yale University. I was also a Junior Professor of Practical Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.

• Unveiling Existential Ambiguity. The Role of Recognition in Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy