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17The Death of the Other/Father: A Feminist Reading of Derrida's HauntologyHypatia 16 (1): 64-71. 2001.This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's “hauntology” as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the bodies of women, in this case the always absent daughter. A careful reading suggests that Derrida, and playwnght fathers of daughters such as Shakespeare and August Wilson, may be aware of the paradoxes of their situation.
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27Review of Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (4). 2007.
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109Genre fiction and "the origin of the work of art"Philosophy and Literature 26 (1): 216-223. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 216-223 [Access article in PDF] Notes and Fragments Genre Fiction and "The Origin of the Work of Art" Nancy J. Holland I FIRST, A CONFESSION. Like, I suspect, many of my readers, I am an unpublished fiction writer. Unlike most of the closet fiction writers in academia, however, I write genre fiction. The question that immediately follows is how that writing is related to the intellectual work I d…Read more
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49"With One Headlight": Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy Today 46 (5): 28-33. 2002.This paper investigates the philosophy of science that is implicit in all of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work, but made more explicit in the lectures recently published as _Nature<D>. It outlines the relevant argument from these lectures and concludes that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of science is difficult to see as such because of the way he blends philosophy, science, and philosophy of science in his work by interweaving phenomenology with empirical data from the natural and social sciences
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21The Death of the Other/Father: A Feminist Reading of Derrida's Hauntology 1Hypatia 16 (1): 64-71. 2001.This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's “hauntology” as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the bodies of women, in this case the always absent daughter. A careful reading suggests that Derrida, and playwnght fathers of daughters such as Shakespeare and August Wilson, may be aware of the paradoxes of their situation.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |