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59Race, Empire and the Idea of Human Development by Thomas McCarthyConstellations 18 (3): 487-492. 2011.
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349Pornography and powerJournal of Social Philosophy 32 (4). 2001.When it was at its height, the feminist pornography debate tended to generate more heat than light. Only now that there has been a cease fire in the sex war does it seem possible to reflect on the debate in a more productive way and to address some of the questions that were left unresolved by it. In this paper, I shall argue that one of the major unresolved questions is that of how feminists should conceptualize power. The antipornography feminists and the feminist sex radicals presuppose radic…Read more
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162Feminism, Foucault, and the Critique of Reason: Re-reading the History of MadnessFoucault Studies 16 15-31. 2013.This paper situates Lynne Huffer’s recent queer-feminist Foucaultian critique of reason within the context of earlier feminist debates about reason and critically assesses Huffer’s work from the point of view of its faithfulness to Foucault’s work and its implications for feminism. I argue that Huffer’s characterization of Enlightenment reason as despotic not only departs from Foucault’s account of the relationship between power and reason, it also leaves her stuck in the same double binds that …Read more
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569Discourse, power, and subjectivation: The foucault/habermas debate reconsideredPhilosophical Forum 40 (1): 1-28. 2009.In this article, I take up one strand – arguably the central one – of the Foucault/Habermas debate: their respective accounts of subjectivation. Against those who hold that Foucault and Habermas occupy such drastically different theoretical perspectives as to preclude the integration of their views into a common framework, I begin to lay the groundwork for an account of subjectivation that draws on the conceptual insights to be found on each side of the debate. While both Foucault and Habermas o…Read more
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40The entanglement of power and validity : Foucault and critical theoryIn Timothy O'Leary & Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 78--98. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Subjection and Autonomy: Foucault contra Habermas What Is Fallacious About the Genetic Fallacy? Conclusion References.
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254Rethinking PowerHypatia 13 (1). 1998.This paper argues that feminists have yet to develop a satisfactory account of power. Existing feminist accounts of power tend to have a one-sided emphasis either on power as domination or on power as empowerment. This conceptual one-sided-ness must be overcome if feminists are to develop an account complex enough to illuminate women's diverse experiences with power. Such an account is sketched here.
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100Progress, Normativity, and the Dynamics of Social ChangeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 37 (2): 225-251. 2016.
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30IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3): 213-218. 2014.This is an introduction to a volume of articles containing highlights from the fifty-second annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at the University of Oregon from October 24–26, 2013. All three of the plenary sessions for this conference constituted reflections on limits of various kinds: the limits of conceptual thinking, the limits of continental philosophy understood as a kind of post-Kantian quasi-transcendental enterprise, and the idea that SPEP’…Read more
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Feminism and the subject of politicsIn Boudewijn de Bruin & Christopher F. Zurn (eds.), New waves in political philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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102Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of Angela Y. Davis: Justice and Reconciliation: The Death of the Prison? (review)Human Studies 30 (4): 311-321. 2007.
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36Reconstruction or deconstruction?: A reply to Johanna MeehanPhilosophy and Social Criticism 26 (3): 53-60. 2000.I argue that Johanna Meehan's call to examine the extra-linguistic psychic, affective and biological dimensions of gender identity is extremely important both for feminist theory in particular and for contemporary Continental philosophy in general. However, I suspect that such an examination might necessitate more than a mere expansion or reconstruction of Habermas' views; on the contrary, I suggest that Meehan's line of argument might lead instead toward a radical deconstruction of Habermasian …Read more
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249Power and the politics of difference: Oppression, empowerment, and transnational justiceHypatia 23 (3). 2008.This paper examines Young’s conception of power, arguing that it is incomplete, in at least two ways. First, Young tends to equate the term power with the narrower notions of ‘ oppression ’ and ‘domination’. Thus, Young lacks a satisfactory analysis of individual and collective empowerment. Second, as Young herself admits, it is not obvious that her analysis of power can be useful in the context of thinking about transnational justice. Allen concludes by considering one way in which Young’s anal…Read more
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