Annie Larivée discovered the work of Pierre Hadot and of the late Foucault on ancient philosophy as a way of life and care for the self while doing her MA in philosophy at Université de Montréal in the late 1990s. This intellectual encounter durably impacted her academic trajectory. In the early 2000’s, she earned a PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne) with a dissertation titled The Political Asclepios. Care for the Soul in Plato’s Dialogues. Since then, she has published extensively on related themes in ancient philosophy, particularly Plato, both in English and French. Her current research aims at refining our understanding of what philosophy was (and could still be, possibly) by distinguishing ancient conceptions of philosophia which are related but distinct such as ‘philosophy as a way of life,’ ‘philosophy as an art of life,’ ‘philosophy as therapy,’ ‘philosophy as care for the soul/self,’ and ‘philosophy as contemplation’. She has served two terms as Chair of the Philosophy Department at Carleton University, in Ottawa (Canada), where she lives and teaches.
Email address: annie.larivee@carleton.ca
Institutional webpage: https://carleton.ca/philosophy/people/larivee-annie/