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2Time Travels: Feminism, Nature Power, by Elizabeth Grosz (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 331-333. 2008.
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70Creative evolution and the creation of manSouthern Journal of Philosophy 48 (s1): 109-132. 2010.This paper argues that Darwin's theory of evolution offers two modes of understanding the relation between life and human knowledge. On the one hand, Darwin can be included within a general turn to “life,” in which human self-knowledge is part of a general unfolding of increasing awareness and anthropological reflexivity; life creates an organism, man, capable of discerning the logic of organic existence. On the other hand, Darwin offers the possibility of understanding life beyond the self-main…Read more
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13Incorporeality: The ghostly body of metaphysicsBody and Society 6 (2): 25--44. 2000.For the past two decades, the issue of the body and essentialism has dominated feminist theory. In general, it is assumed that the body has been devalued and repressed by the Western metaphysical tradition. In this article, I make two claims to the contrary. First, as poststructuralist theory has tirelessly demonstrated, Western thought has continually tried to ground thought in some foundational substance, such as the body. Second, the most provocative, fruitful and radical aspects of recent fe…Read more
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Pennsylvania State UniversityRegular Faculty
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |