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626The Opposition of Politics and WarHypatia 23 (2): 141-154. 2008.At stake for this essay is the distinction between politics and war and the extent to which politics can survive war. Gender analysis reveals how high these stakes are by revealing the complexity of militarism. It also reveals the impossibility of gender identity as foundation for a more robust politics with respect to war. Instead, a non-ideal normative differentiation among kinds of violence is affirmed as that which politically cannot not be wanted.
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185Terrorism, evil, and everyday depravityHypatia 18 (1): 157-163. 2003.: This essay expresses ambivalence about the use of the term "evil" in analyses of terrorism in light of the association of the two in speeches intended to justify the United States' "war on terrorism." At the same time, the essay suggests that terrorism can be regarded as "evil" but only when considered among a multiplicity of "evils" comparable to it, for example: rape, war crimes, and repression
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77Could There Be a Humean Sex-Neutral General Idea of Man?Philosophy Research Archives 13 367-377. 1987.In this paper I suggest that the Humean male and Humean female of Hume’s Treatise would have different mental lives due to a great extent to what Hume takes to be the socio-culture in place. Specifically, I show that the Humean male would be incapable but the Humean female would be capable of forming a Humean sex-neutral general idea of man. The Humean male’s inability is not innate but the result of the trauma he experiences when discovering sexuality, reproduction and realizing how insecure a …Read more
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74Politics and Prioritization of EvilHypatia 19 (4): 192-196. 2004.In this essay I question an assumption of Card's, which seems to place the (Kantianstyle) ethical in a directive relationship with respect to the political. I call attention to the rupture between the two as a marker of modernity and suggest that the political is not only a sphere of power but also a value-sedimented field, with the values in question developing historically as in the case of liberal democracy
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51Global Feminist EthicsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory . The topics covered herein_from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women's paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism_are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world
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49Review of Sarah Lucia Hoagland: Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values. (review)Ethics 102 (3): 673-675. 1992.Lesbian Ethics seems to address a need for an alternative to heteropatriarchal ethics. That need appears to have two suspect sources: a concept of agency which requires that agents know what is right; and a notion women may have that by being "good" we can escape the degraded status of females and achieve a status of citizeness, or honorary male. Instead of providing such an ethic, the book may show us how to live without it.
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39The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (1): 136-137. 1997.
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38A Realist Approach to ImmigrationThe Acorn 17 (1): 81-82. 2017.In Strangers in Our Midst, David Miller develops a philosophical position that is intended to guide the complex decisions that liberal democratic states face regarding immigration policy. While it is not likely that Miller’s arguments will convince anyone who is principally committed to the kind of open borders that truly enable the free movement of people across them, Miller has much to offer to those who are either (a) trying to make sense of the position of people who object to unrestricted m…Read more
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38The Feminist Sexuality Debates and the Transformation of the PoliticalHypatia 7 (4): 45-58. 1992.In this essay I examine the history of the sexuality debates among feminists. In both the nineteenth century and the recent sexuality debates the personal is taken to be foundational for a political stance, while simultaneously the debates transform feminist understandings of the extent to which the personal is political. I suggest that this transformation undermines the epistemological assumptions of the debates, resulting in a feminism that cannot be radical.
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35Reading Bartky: Identity, Identification, and Critical Self ReflectionHypatia 8 (1): 159-163. 1993.Remarks on Sandra Lee Bartky's Femininity and Domination.
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29Ruin, repair, and responsibilityInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (2). 2002.'Ruin, Repair, and Responsibility' explores and Arendtean conceptualization of the three and their interrelations. At issue is how to understand (a) ruin in its socio-historical specificity but also in terms of what it is that breaks down in the weave of human relations, (b) the possibility or impossibility of repair, and (c) what responsibility may mean when repair is impossible since the very conditions for its possibility have been destroyed.
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27Book Review:Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values. Sarah Lucia Hoagland (review)Ethics 102 (3): 673-. 1992.
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26Hannah Arendt Martin Heidegger (review)International Studies in Philosophy 31 (2): 128-133. 1999.
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26Standing between Us and Our Grave WrongdoingsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 112-126. 2012.
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26But Is It Fascism?Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (4): 407-424. 2019.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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26Jewish Locations: Traversing Racialized Landscapes (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2001.This volume brings together essays that reflect on ontological and moral dilemmas regarding Jewish identity and race. The reflections offered here take place in the context of post-Holocaust transformations and pay special attention to the double processes of the deracialization of Jews qua Jews and the recasting of Jews both in reracialized and in other terms. As a result, the essays bring together and create intersections between Jewish studies and critical theories of race and help stretch th…Read more
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21The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers
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20Meditations on National IdentityHypatia 9 (2). 1994.This essay is about my coming to awareness of my national identity as a Jewish-Israeli while building a friendship with a Palestinian woman, Amal Kawar, and the place of such an awareness in the process of the re-formation of identity. To the extent that it has a conclusion, it is that, at least in the Jewish-Israeli-Palestinian context, a peace that does not reproduce the past necessitates an ethico-politically based self-examination and change.
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12Sexuality, the Family, and NationalismIn Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Feminism and Families, Routledge. 1997.
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10Marginality and Epistemic PrivilegeIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 83--100. 1993.
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8Just (Decent? Mere?) WarIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.
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7The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in UnderstandingRowman & Littlefield. 2002.The Subject of Violence is a critical investigation of violence and its subjectifying capacities. It both relies on and explores the work of Hannah Arendt. At its background are feminist concerns, but also concerns with violence that press against the feminist problematic and push its boundaries. The book's main project is ethico-political _understanding_ and, therefore, it is also about finding an ethico-political language for violence that escapes the standard idioms in which violence is spoke…Read more
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5Why Terrorism is Morally ProblematicIn Claudia Card (ed.), Feminist Ethics, University of Kansas. 1991.