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28Machiavelli's SistersPolitical Theory 19 (2): 252-276. 1991.If one is a woman, one is often surprised by a sudden splitting of consciousness, say in walking down Whitehall, when from being the natural inheritor of that civilization, she becomes, on the contrary, outside of it, alien and critical. Virginia Woolf
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75We Feel Our FreedomPolitical Theory 33 (2): 158-188. 2005.Critics of Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy argue that Arendt fails to address the most important problem of political judgment, namely, validity. This essay shows that Arendt does indeed have an answer to the problem that preoccupies her critics, with one important caveat: she does not think that validity is the all-important problem of political judgment--the affirmation of human freedom is.
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14Philosophy’s Gaudy DressEuropean Journal of Political Theory 4 (2): 146-163. 2005.John Locke famously sets the arts of rhetoric at odds with the pursuit of knowledge. Drawing on the work of Ernesto Grassi, this article shows that Locke’s epistemological and political arguments are parasitic on the very tropes and figures he would exclude in any serious discourse. Accordingly, Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings and his famous argument for the social contract is read as exhibiting a rhetorical structure. This structure is crucial to Locke’s critique of heteronomy and h…Read more
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2Feminists know not what they do : Judith Butler's gender trouble and the limits of epistemologyIn Terrell Carver & Samuel Allen Chambers (eds.), Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters, Routledge. 2008.
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23Signifying woman: culture and chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and MillCornell University Press. 1994.CHAPTER ONE Political Theory as a Signifying Practice Political theory has been a heroic business, snatching us from the abyss a vocation worthy of giants. ...
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92Between materialism and utopianism: Reflections on the work of Drucilla CornellPhilosophy and Social Criticism 22 (4): 95-108. 1996.
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471This Universalism which is not One: Ernesto Laclau's EmancipationsDiacritics 28 (2): 3-20. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:This Universalism Which Is Not OneLinda M. G. Zerilli (bio)Ernesto Laclau. Emancipation(s). London: Verso, 1996.Judging from the recent spate of publications devoted to the question of the universal, it appears that, in the view of some critics, we are witnessing a reevaluation of its dismantling in twentieth-century thought. One of the many oddities about this “return of the universal” 1 is the idea that contemporary engagements wit…Read more
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