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8Repetition to Working-ThroughIn Ann Cahill & Jennifer Hansen (eds.), The Continental Feminism Reader, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 168. 2003.
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8Hugh Silverman’s Cosmopolitan HospitalityIn Donald A. Landes (ed.), Between philosophy and non-philosophy: the thought and legacy of Hugh J. Silverman, Suny Press. pp. 171-174. 2016.
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7Rethinking Response EthicsPhilosophy Today 62 (2): 619-626. 2018.Working against both Hegelian recognition and ethics based on vulnerability, I argue for response ethics or an ethics of ambivalence. While the ideal of mutual recognition is admirable, in practice, recognition is experienced as conferred by the very groups and institutions responsible for withholding it in the first place. In other words, recognition is distributed according to an axis of power that is part and parcel of systems of dominance and oppression. I both challenge the concept of vulne…Read more
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7Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2007.Interdisciplinary exploration of the scope and impact of Teresa Brennan’s lifework
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7Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making “Good” Death a “Good” PenaltyIn Lisa Guenther, Geoffrey Adelsberg & Scott Zeman (eds.), Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration, Fordham Up. pp. 95-105. 2015.
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6Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2009.Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre
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6Response ethicsRowman & Littlefield International. 2018.Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Interrelational subjects and social sublimation -- The gestation of the other in phenomenology -- The look of love and ecological subjectivity -- Social melancholy, shame and sublimation -- Responsible subjects and witnessing -- Witnessing subjectivity and testimony -- Witnessing, recognition, and response ethics -- Between ethics and politics -- Response ethics and the nonhumans -- Animal ethics: toward an ethics of responsiveness -- Service dog…Read more
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6KristevaIn Simon Critchley & William R. Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.Julia Kristeva was born in 1941 in Bulgaria. She was educated by French nuns, studied literature and worked as a journalist before going to Paris in 1966 to do graduate work with Lucien Goldmann and Roland Barthes. While in Paris she finished her doctorate in French literature, became involved in the influential journal Tel Quel, and began psychoanalytic training. In 1979 she finished her training as a psychoanalyst. Currently, Kristeva is a professor of linguistics as the University of Paris VI…Read more
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5BandagesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 22 (2): 70-83. 2014.“The bandages signify death,” says Derrida, “the condemnation to death; when they fall away, out of use, undone, untied, untying, they signify, like a detached signifier, that the dead one is resuscitated." Like a detached signifier, indicating a metaphorical relationship between signification and the bandages. But, when we follow the metonymy of bandages in Derrida’s Death Penalty seminar volume one, the bandages appear as the figure for figuration itself. More specifically, they are a sign tha…Read more
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4Kristeva’s Rewriting of Totem and Taboo and Religious FundamentalismJournal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 1 (2): 232-257. 2019.With the upsurge in various forms of religion, especially dogmatic forms that kill in the name of good versus evil, there is an urgent need for intellectuals to acknowledge and analyze the role of religion in contemporary culture and politics. If there is to be any hope for peace, we need to understand how and why religion becomes the justification for violence. In a world where religious intolerance is growing, and the divide between the secular and the religious seems to be expanding, Julia Kr…Read more
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4Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital PunishmentFordham University Press. 2013.Using deconstruction, this book approaches contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death from cloning to capital punishment; and thereby, provides new insights into current debates from a perspective outside of mainstream philosophy with its assumptions of individual and political sovereignty.
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3The “Slow and Differentiated” Machinations of Deconstructive EthicsIn Zeynep Direk & Leonard Lawlor (eds.), A Companion to Derrida, Wiley. 2014.In this chapter the author tracks the ethics of deconstruction as it moves through The Beast and the Sovereign, to see where it leads us and where it leaves us; and examines the role of the machine in Derrida's deconstructive project, particularly as it operates in this seminar. He shows how machine is another nickname for the operation of difference in so far as it is an undecidable figure or concept that both works for and against the binary oppositions and dichotomies so popular in our cultur…Read more
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311 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal ElectionIn Richard Kearney & Kascha Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality, Fordham University Press. pp. 196-212. 2022.
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211 Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film and Popular CultureIn Sarah LaChance Adams & Caroline R. Lundquist (eds.), Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, Fordham University Press. pp. 239-262. 2013.
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2Chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched ExecutionsIn Kelly Oliver & Stephanie M. Straub (eds.), Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism, Fordham University Press. pp. 186-202. 2018.
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2Starting at Home: Caring and Social PolicyPolitical Theory 31 (6): 859-870. 2003.Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, and abortion, Noddings inverts traditional philosophical priorities to show how an ethic of care can have profound and compelling implications for social and political thought. Instead of beginning w…Read more
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2Revolt and ForgivenessIn Tina Chanter & Ewa PŁonowska Ziarek (eds.), Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis, Suny Press. pp. 77-92. 2012.
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215 Earth: Love It or Leave It?In Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 339-354. 2018.
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22 Fatherhood and the Promise of EthicsIn Samuel Clark Buckner & Matthew Statler (eds.), Styles of piety: practicing philosophy after the death of God, Fordham University Press. pp. 35-54. 2006.
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2Between the psyche and the social: psychoanalytic social theory (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2002.Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection that specifically features the field of psychoanalytic social theory emerging in and between psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, and across the disciplines of philosophy, literary, film, and cultural studies. This collection of essays takes the psychoanalytic study of social oppression in some new directions by engaging—indeed, stirring up—unconscious fantasies and ethical tensions at the heart of social subj…Read more
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The depressed motherIn Kelly Oliver & Steve Edwin (eds.), Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 49. 2002.
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