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ExistentialismIn Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, Oxford University Press Uk. 2013.This essay examines the relations between existentialism and atheism, and argues that these are more complicated and multi-faceted than is often thought. Of the main nineteenth-century authors whose ideas prefigure existentialism—Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard—the last two are, explicitly, Christians. Even the twentieth-century existentialists who are well known for their positive atheism —Sartre and Camus—actually struggle to extricate their thought from the legacy of Christianity. Beca…Read more
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53Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Overcoming the Division between Matter and ThoughtDialogue 39 (4): 725. 2000.RÉSUMÉ: La Philosophie de la nature de Hegel élabore une théorie complexe et systématique du monde naturel, qui est passée presque inaperçue dans la littérature secondaire. Selon cette théorie, la nature passe progressivement d'une division originale entre ses deux éléments constitutifs, la pensée et la matière, à leur unification finale, par une séquence rationnellement nécessaire d'étapes dans le processus. Cette progression naturelle présente une structure identique à celle de la progression …Read more
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49Gender, the Family, and the Organic State in Hegel's Political ThoughtIn Thom Brooks (ed.), Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Women's Place in the Hegelian State The Organic State and Individual Freedom Tensions in the Organic Model: For and Against Sex Equality Animal State, Vegetal State: Hegel versus Early German Romanticism Notes Abbreviations References.
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36German Romantic and Idealist Conceptions of NatureIn Jürgen Stolzenberg, Karl Ameriks & Fred Rush (eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism : Romantik / Romanticism, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 80-101. 2009.
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4120Essentialism and anti-essentialism in feminist philosophyJournal of Moral Philosophy 1 (2): 135-153. 2004.This article revisits the ethical and political questions raised by feminist debates over essentialism, the belief that there are properties essential to women and which all women share. Feminists’ widespread rejection of essentialism has threatened to undermine feminist politics. Re-evaluating two responses to this problem—‘strategic’ essentialism and Iris Marion Young’s idea that women are an internally diverse ‘series’—I argue that both unsatisfactorily retain essentialism as a descriptive cl…Read more
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35Songsuk Susan Hahn, Contradiction in motion: Hegel's organic concept of life and value (review)European Journal of Philosophy 18 (2): 320-324. 2010.
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13Contradiction in Motion: Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value, by Songsuk Susan Hahn (review)European Journal of Philosophy 18 (2): 320-324. 2010.
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85Being, knowledge and nature in NovalisJournal of the History of Philosophy 46 (1): 141-163. 2008.: This paper reconstructs the evolution of Novalis’ thought concerning being, nature, and knowledge. In his earlier writings (above all the Fichte-Studies) he argues that unitary being underlies finite phenomena and that we can never know, but only strive towards knowledge of, being. In contrast, his later writings, principally the Allgemeine Brouillon, maintain that the unitary reality underlying finite things can be known, because it is an organic whole which develops and organises itself acco…Read more
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1646Against Matricide: Rethinking Subjectivity and the Maternal BodyHypatia 27 (1): 118-138. 2012.In this article I critically re-examine Julia Kristeva's view that becoming a speaking subject requires psychical matricide: violent separation from the maternal body. I propose an alternative, non-matricidal conception of subjectivity, in part by drawing out anti-matricidal strands in Kristeva's own thought, including her view that early mother–child relations are triangular. Whereas she understands this triangle in terms of a first imaginary father, I re-interpret this triangle using Donald Wi…Read more
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28Ethical implications of Hegel's philosophy of natureBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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216An Introduction to Feminist PhilosophyPolity. 2007.This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and relat…Read more
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44The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2016._The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy_ is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the _Companion_, are organized into five sections: Engaging the Past Mind, Body, and World Knowledge, Language, and Science Intersections Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several ph…Read more
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1266Alienation from Nature and Early German RomanticismEthical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (1): 41-54. 2014.In this article I ask how fruitful the concept of alienation can be for thinking critically about the nature and causes of the contemporary environmental crisis. The concept of alienation enables us to claim that modern human beings have become alienated or estranged from nature and need to become reconciled with it. Yet reconciliation has often been understood—notably by Hegel and Marx—as the state of being ‘at-home-with-oneself-in-the-world’, in the name of which we are entitled, perhaps even …Read more
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2106Adorno, Hegel, and DialecticBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (6): 1118-1141. 2014.This article explores critical theory's relations to German idealism by clarifying how Adorno's thought relates to Hegel's. Adorno's apparently mixed responses to Hegel centre on the dialectic and actually form a coherent whole. In his Logic, Hegel outlines the dialectical process by which categories – fundamental forms of thought and reality – necessarily follow one another in three stages: abstraction, dialectic proper, and the speculative . Adorno's allegiance to Hegel's dialectic emerges whe…Read more
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193Adorno and the disenchantment of naturePhilosophy and Social Criticism 32 (2): 231-253. 2006.In this article I re-examine Adorno's and Horkheimer's account of the disenchantment of nature in Dialectic of Enlightenment . I argue that they identify disenchantment as a historical process whereby we have come to find natural things meaningless and completely intelligible. However, Adorno and Horkheimer believe that modernity not only rests on disenchantment but also tends to re-enchant nature, because it encourages us to think that its institutions derive from, and are anticipated and prefi…Read more
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13G. W. F. Hegel: Key ConceptsAcumen Publishing. 2015.The thought of G. W. F. Hegel has had a deep and lasting influence on a wide range of philosophical, political, religious, aesthetic, cultural and scientific movements. But, despite the far-reaching importance of Hegel's thought, there is often a great deal of confusion about what he actually said or believed. This is an invaluable introduction for philosophical beginners and a useful reference source for more advanced scholars and researchers.
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