Maxime Rovere is an internationally renowned researcher, associated with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He is one of the leading French specialists on Spinoza: he translated the Ethics from Latin and annotated and illustrated it with an international team (Flammarion, 2025), and he has also published Spinoza: methodes pour exister (CNRS-Editions, 2013) and the story of the life of Spinoza and his friends (Le clan Spinoza. Amsterdam, 1677. L'invention de la liberté, Flammarion, 2017). He also develops his thinking known as “interactional ethics”. The books devoted to it are Que faire des cons? Pour ne pas en rester un soi-même (Flammarion, 2020) and L'école de la vie [The School of Life] and Se vouloir du bien et se faire du mal. Philosophie de la dispute [To wish oneself well and to do oneself harm. Philosophy of dispute] (Flammarion, 2022)