Professor emeritus at École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and associate professor at Fudan University (Shanghai), is a philosopher working on the syntax of images and art history. She also specializes in the history of logic. Recent publications concern theoretical concepts proposed by Benjamin, Wittgenstein,
Warburg, Pascal (probability), Baudelaire, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, and Lévi-Strauss.