Introduction

Annabelle Dufourcq is Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophi­cal Anthropology in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, and Socrates Special Professor of Philosophy at Wageningen University, also in the Netherlands. She studies the relation between the real and the imaginary in contemporary continen­tal philosophy, and has a special interest in the phenomenological approach. She is currently investigating the fundamental relation between human imagination and the imaginative capacities of non-human animals in connection with the project of non-anthropocentric humanities. Her books include La dimension imaginaire du réel dans la philosophie de Hus­serl (Springer 2010), Merleau-Ponty: une ontologie de l’imaginaire (Springer 2012), and The Imaginary of Animals (Routledge 2021).

Annemie Halsema is Socrates Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and the Foundations of Humanism at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden University, and an associate professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She has written two books on Luce Irigaray (1998 and 2010) and has published edited volumes on Judith Butler’s work (2000 and 2021) and on feminism and Ricoeur (2016). She has also had articles published in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Women’s Health Reports, The American Journal of Bioethics, Hypatia, Études Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies.

Katrine Smiet is Assistant Professor at the faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the history/historiography of feminist debates, intersectionality scholarship, and feminist pedagogies. She is the author of Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality: Travelling Truths in Feminist Schol­arship (Routledge 2021) and has published in The European Journal of Women’s Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Karen Vintges is Associate Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research at the University of Amsterdam. For over 40 years she was Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy in the Depart­ment of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Her books include Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (Indiana UP 1996), Feminism and the Final Foucault (edited by D. Taylor and K. Vintges, University of Illinois Press 2004), A New Dawn for the Second Sex: Women’s Freedom Practices in World Perspective (Amsterdam UP 2017), Beauvoir and Politics: A Toolkit (edited by L. Schoonheim and K. Vintges. Routledge 2024).