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Born in 1934, Elisabeth de Fontenay was a student of Vladimir Jankélévitch, a supporter of Hans Jonas, and a friend of Jacques Derrida. A renowned French philosopher, she has taught at the Sorbonne and is the author, notably, of Le Silence des bêtes, La philosophie à l’épreuve de l’animalité (Fayard, 1998), and Diderot: Reason and Resonance (Grasset, 1981; George Braziller, 1982). She wrote an essay entitled “Like Potatoes: The Silence of Animals” for Routledge’s collection French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader: Subjectivity, Identity, Alterity, edited by Christina Howells and published in 2003.
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