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925Bodies and sensings: On the uses of Husserlian phenomenology for feminist theoryContinental Philosophy Review 43 (1): 13-37. 2010.What does Husserlian phenomenology have to offer feminist theory? More specifically, can we find resources within Husserl’s account of the living body ( Leib ) for the critical feminist project of rethinking embodiment beyond the dichotomies not only of mind/body but also of subject/object and activity/passivity? This essay begins by explicating the reasons for feminist hesitation with respect to Husserlian phenomenology. I then explore the resources that Husserl’s phenomenology of touch and his…Read more
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8196The memory of another past: Bergson, Deleuze and a new theory of timeContinental Philosophy Review 37 (2): 203-239. 2004.Through the philosophies of Bergson and Deleuze, my paper explores a different theory of time. I reconstitute Deleuze’s paradoxes of the past in Difference and Repetition and Bergsonism to reveal a theory of time in which the relation between past and present is one of coexistence rather than succession. The theory of memory implied here is a non-representational one. To elaborate this theory, I ask: what is the role of the “virtual image” in Bergson’s Matter and Memory? Far from representing th…Read more
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72Leonard Lawlor, Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (review)Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 14 (2): 134-140. 2004.none
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3497A Phenomenology of Critical-Ethical Vision: Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the question of seeing differentlyChiasmi International 11 375-398. 2009.Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s “Eye and Mind” and Bergson’s Matière et mémoire and “La perception du changement,” I ask what resources are available in vision for interrupting objectifying habits of seeing. While both Bergson and Merleau-Ponty locate the possibility of seeing differently in the figure of the painter, I develop by means of their texts, and in dialogue with Iris Marion Young’s work, a more general phenomenology of hesitation that grounds what I am calling “critical-ethical vision.” …Read more
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161Vision, Mirror and Expression: The Genesis of the Ethical Body in Merleau-Ponty’s Later Works.In James Hatley, Janice McLane & Christian Diehm (eds.), Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, Duquesne University Press. pp. 39-63. 2006.
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184Review of Iris Marion young, On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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200Creating Possibility: The Time of the Quebec Student MovementTheory and Event 15 (3). 2012.Introduction: -/- Walking, illegally, down main Montreal thoroughfares with students in nightly demonstrations, with neighbors whom I barely knew before, banging pots and pans, and with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people on every 22nd of the month since March—this was unimaginable a year ago.1 Unimaginable that the collective and heterogeneous body, which is the “manif [demonstration]”, could feel so much like home, despite its internal differences. Unimaginable that this mutual depen…Read more
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