Déborah V. Brosteaux holds a PhD in Philosophy. She is a scientific collaborator at the FNRS, affiliated with the Centre for Research in Philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin). She also teaches at several universities (ULB, Sciences Po Lille, Paris 8 / Nanterre).

Her research fields include the cultural study of affects in wartime, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and 20th-century political philosophies of desire. She completed a doctoral thesis in philosophy on 20th-century German authors (Benjamin, Sebald, Theweleit, etc.), in which she explores the affective constellations embedded in the wartime history of modernity. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research on the transformation of desire in postwar Germany, based on authors and filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1980s (Theweleit, Wesper, Kluge, Syberberg, etc.) who confront the legacy of Nazism in the present.

Among her recent publications: Les désirs guerriers de la modernité (Seuil, “La couleur des idées” collection, forthcoming in April 2025); Klaus Theweleit, La possibilité d’une vie non fasciste. Chroniques d’une Allemagne hantée (edited volume, with Christophe Lucchese, Météores, 2024); “L’art de mettre à part. Autour d’un affect guerrier” (*Aisthesis*, 2023, Vol. 16 No. 2); Traces de guerre (edited volume, with Thomas Berns, Presses du réel, 2023).