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66Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family: Twenty‐Five Years LaterHypatia 31 (3): 636-637. 2016.
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93Nietzsche's middle periodOxford University Press. 2000.Ruth Abbey presents a close study of Nietzsche's works, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. Although these middle period works tend to be neglected in commentaries on Nietzsche, they repay careful attention. Abbey's commentary brings to light important differences across Nietzsche's oeuvre that have gone unnoticed, filling a serious gap in the literature.
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22Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2013.In _Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls_, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onwards. She surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that foll…Read more
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64Closer kinships: Rortyan resources for animal rightsContemporary Political Theory 16 (1): 1-18. 2017.This article considers the extent to which the debate about animal rights can be enriched by Richard Rorty’s theory of rights. Although Rorty’s work has enjoyed a lot of scholarly attention, commentators have not considered the implications of his arguments for animals. Nor have theorists of animal rights engaged his approach to rights. This paper argues that Rorty’s thinking holds a number of attractions for proponents of animal rights. It also considers some of its drawbacks. It is further arg…Read more
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113Beyond misogyny and metaphor: Women in Nietzsche's middle periodJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2): 233-256. 1996.This article proposes a third way of reading Nietzsche's remarks on women, one that goes beyond misogyny and metaphor. Taking the depiction of women in the works of the middle period at face value shows that these works neither entirely demean women nor exclude them from the higher life. Nietzsche's middle period comprises HAH (1879-80, which includes "Assorted Opinions and Maxims" and "The Wanderer and His Shadow"), D (1881) and GS (1882). The works of this period do not disqualify women from f…Read more
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150The chief inducement? The idea of marriage as friendshipJournal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1). 2001.A combination of social forces has thrown marriage into question in westernised societies at the end of the millennium. This uncertainty creates space for new ways of thinking about marriage. In this context, we examine the idea of marriage as friendship. We trace its genealogy in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor and then subject it to critical scrutiny using some of Michel de Montaigne’s ideas. We ask how applic- able the ideal of higher friendship is to marr…Read more
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171Reviews : Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)Thesis Eleven 25 (1): 170-172. 1990.
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31Mediocrity versus meritocracy: Nietzsche's (mis)reading of ChamfortHistory of Political Thought 19 (3): 457-483. 1998.This article challenges the claim that Friedrich Nietzsche is a good reader of the French moralist, Chamfort, when it comes to Chamfort's politics. Chamfort is a meritocrat rather than the bitter egalitarian Nietzsche protrays him to be. Moreover, the moralist's meritocratic beliefs, his hopes for a new social order and the emergence of a new aristocracy resemble many of Nietzsche's own values. Had Nietzsche read Chamfort as a meritocrat, he could have found much to stimulate and clarify his own…Read more
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240Back to the future: Marriage as friendship in the thought of Mary wollstonecraftHypatia 14 (3): 78-95. 1999.: If liberal theory is to move forward, it must take the political nature of family relations seriously. The beginnings of such a liberalism appear in Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Wollstonecraft's depiction of the family as a fundamentally political institution extends liberal values into the private sphere by promoting the ideal of marriage as friendship. However, while her model of marriage diminishes arbitrary power in family relations, she seems unable to incorporate enduring sexual relations…Read more
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190The Roots of RessentimentNew Nietzsche Studies 3 (3-4): 47-61. 1999.Despite its centrality for an understanding of Nietzsche's thought, the term ressentiment does not appear in his writings before Beyond Good and Evil. This article argues that the roots of the idea of ressentiment appear in his middle period writings when he discusses vanity [die Eitelkeit].
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33Stefan Ramaekers and Judith Suissa , The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (1): 9-15. 2013.
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55Odd bedfellows: Nietzsche and Mill on marriageHistory of European Ideas 23 (2-4): 81-104. 1997.This paper examines Nietzsche's views on love and marriage in the works of his middle period. Contrary to the general consensus in the secondary literature regarding Nietzsche's ideas on these matters, it shows that he offers several positive reflections on love and marriage. Indeed, at times he accepts that friendship is possible between the genders and even models marriage on friendship. Modelling marriage on friendship creates an overlap between Nietzsche's thought and that of John Stuart Mil…Read more
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Introduction: timely meditations in an untimely mode—the thought of Charles TaylorIn Charles Taylor, Routledge. pp. 1--28. 2000.
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43Christine Overall , Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (1): 9-15. 2013.
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95Pluralism in practice: the political thought of Charles TaylorCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (3): 98-123. 2002.This review article outlines some of the major contributions made to political theory by Charles Taylor. It focuses on his relationship to liberalism, his contribution to the understanding of democracy and his analysis of the politics of recognition. Several lines of critique of Taylor's thought on these issues are also explored. Some reflections on Taylor's style of theorising about politics are offered, and the question of whether he is a conservative or critical theorist is examined
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60The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics, by Michael Slote (review)Mind 121 (482): 529-532. 2012.
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240Rawlsian resources for animal ethicsEthics and the Environment 12 (1): 1-22. 2007.: This article considers what contribution the work of John Rawls can make to questions about animal ethics. It argues that there are more normative resources in A Theory of Justice for a concern with animal welfare than some of Rawls's critics acknowledge. However, the move from A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism sees a depletion of normative resources in Rawlsian thought for addressing animal ethics. The article concludes by endorsing the implication of A Theory of Justice that we loo…Read more
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47Nietzsche and the Invention of InventionJournal of Nietzsche Studies 15 (Spring): 1-14. 1998.Friedrich Nietzsche is typically seen as a radical critic of the western philosophical tradition. This article considers why this image is so widely accepted. It argues that part of the reason for its acceptance is that Nietzsche paints a picture of himself as the independent, radical innovator in his later writings. If we look at the works of the middle period, we find that by contrast, he repeatedly situates himself within wider traditions and discusses what he has learned from them.
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60Elizabeth Brake , Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality and the Law . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (1): 9-15. 2013.
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74Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the Thought of Mary WollstonecraftHypatia 14 (3): 78-95. 1999.If liberal theory is to move forward, it must take the political nature of family relations seriously. The beginnings of such a liberalism appear in Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Wollstonecraft's depiction of the family as a fundamentally political institution extends liberal values into the private sphere by promoting the ideal of marriage as friendship. However, while her model of marriage diminishes arbitrary power in family relations, she seems unable to incorporate enduring sexual relations b…Read more
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107Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator (review)New Nietzsche Studies 5 (3/4/1/2): 220-224. 2003.
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57The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles TaylorPhilosophy of Management 1 (3): 3-9. 2001.Charles Taylor is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging philosophers in the English-speaking world today. He writes with authority in the fields of moral theory, political philosophy, theories of language, the history of western thought, epistemology and hermeneutics.1 Currently an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, he has enjoyed a distinguished academic career which includes being Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He has also been a…Read more
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47Plus Ça Change: Charles Taylor On Accommodating Quebec’s mInority CulturesThesis Eleven 99 (1): 71-92. 2009.This article examines the 2008 report of the Quebec Government’s Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences which was co-authored by Charles Taylor. Summarizing its main themes, it identifies points of intersection with Taylor’s political thought. Issues of citizen equality, including gender equality, secularism, integration and interculturalism, receive special attention
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University of Notre DameRegular Faculty
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Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |