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14Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 347-360. 1998.
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75Modernism without Women: The Refusal of Becoming-Woman (and Post-Feminism)Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (4): 427-455. 2013.Just as becoming-woman is a divided concept, looking back to a seemingly redemptive figure of the feminine beyond rigid being, but also forward to a positive annihilation of fixed genders, so modernism was also a doubled movement. But modernism was a pulverisation of ‘the’ subject for the sake of a plural and multiplying point of view, and like ‘becoming-woman’, should be read as a defiant and affirmative refusal
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155How can we tell the dancer from the dance?: The subject of dance and the subject of philosophyTopoi 24 (1): 5-14. 2004.One of the most important aspects of Gilles Deleuzes philosophy is his criticism of the traditional concept of praxis. In Aristotelian philosophy praxis is properly oriented towards some end, and in the case of human action the ends of praxis are oriented towards the agents good life. Human goods are, for both Aristotle and contemporary neo-Aristotelians, determined by the potentials of human life such as rationality, communality, and speech. Deleuzes account of action, by contrast, liberates mo…Read more
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27Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (1): 40-52. 1998.
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Pennsylvania State UniversityRegular Faculty
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |