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Platoon and the Failure of WarIn Diane Raymond (ed.), Sexual Politics and Popular Culture, Bowling Green University. 1991.
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10Marginality and Epistemic PrivilegeIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 83--100. 1993.
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Thinking Between Democracy and ViolenceIn Ann Ferguson Mechthild Nagel (ed.), Dancing With Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young, Oxford University. 2009.
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The ‘Scottsboro Case’: On Responsibility, Rape, Race, Gender, and Class.In Keith Burgess-Jackson (ed.), A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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8Just (Decent? Mere?) WarIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.
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Women in Dark Times: Rahel Varnhagen, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt and MeIn Larry May Jerome Kohn (ed.), Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later, Mit Press. 1996.
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From Hegelian Terror to Everyday CourageIn Rebecca Whisnant Peggy DesAutels (ed.), Global Feminist Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield. 2007.
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191Terrorism, evil, and everyday depravityHypatia 18 (1): 157-163. 2003.: This essay expresses ambivalence about the use of the term "evil" in analyses of terrorism in light of the association of the two in speeches intended to justify the United States' "war on terrorism." At the same time, the essay suggests that terrorism can be regarded as "evil" but only when considered among a multiplicity of "evils" comparable to it, for example: rape, war crimes, and repression
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33Ruin, repair, and responsibilityInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (2). 2002.'Ruin, Repair, and Responsibility' explores and Arendtean conceptualization of the three and their interrelations. At issue is how to understand (a) ruin in its socio-historical specificity but also in terms of what it is that breaks down in the weave of human relations, (b) the possibility or impossibility of repair, and (c) what responsibility may mean when repair is impossible since the very conditions for its possibility have been destroyed.
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Commodious Diets or Could a Marxist Do AtkinsIn Lisa Heldke Kerri Mommer & Cindy Pineo (eds.), The Atkins Diet and Philosophy, Open Court. 2005.
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7The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in UnderstandingRowman & Littlefield. 2002.The Subject of Violence is a critical investigation of violence and its subjectifying capacities. It both relies on and explores the work of Hannah Arendt. At its background are feminist concerns, but also concerns with violence that press against the feminist problematic and push its boundaries. The book's main project is ethico-political _understanding_ and, therefore, it is also about finding an ethico-political language for violence that escapes the standard idioms in which violence is spoke…Read more
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5Why Terrorism is Morally ProblematicIn Claudia Card (ed.), Feminist Ethics, University of Kansas. 1991.
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21Meditations on National IdentityHypatia 9 (2). 1994.This essay is about my coming to awareness of my national identity as a Jewish-Israeli while building a friendship with a Palestinian woman, Amal Kawar, and the place of such an awareness in the process of the re-formation of identity. To the extent that it has a conclusion, it is that, at least in the Jewish-Israeli-Palestinian context, a peace that does not reproduce the past necessitates an ethico-politically based self-examination and change.
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An Apprentice’s Anecdotal Field NotesIn George Yancy (ed.), Philosophy and Biography: At the Intersections, Rowman & Littlefield. 2002.