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65Saving Time: Temporality, Recurrence, and Transcendence in Beauvoir's Nietzschean CyclesIn Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler, State University of New York Press. pp. 103-123. 2012.
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59Saving timeIn Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler, State University of New York Press. pp. 103-123. 2012.
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5Peregrine Genius and Thought-ThingsIn Sarah K. Hansen (ed.), New forms of revolt: essays on Kristeva's intimate politics, Suny Press. pp. 155-170. 2017.
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14Returning to Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Unity (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2006.Leading scholars examine the relation between Irigaray’s early writings and her later, more political work
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Intersubjectivity as unground : freedom and mediation in Irigaray and SchellingIn Henk Oosterling & Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (eds.), Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics, Lexington Books. 2010.
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27Critique of Continental FeminismphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (1): 149-156. 2017.
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13Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in NatureIn Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Dissertation Proposal Shift to the Critique of Teleology Kant's Organicism and Critique of Teleological Judgment Goethe's Aesthetic Philosophy of Nature Multiple Purposivenesses Individuation Rationality and Purposiveness The Legacy of the Dissertation Project in Nietzsche's Later Work.
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33Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesColumbia University Press. 2014.While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative acts counteract and transform feelings of violence and depression. Reviewing Kristeva's corpus, Elaine P. Miller considers the intellectual's "aesthetic idea" and "thought specular" in their capacity…Read more
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76'The World Must be Romanticised...': The (Environmental) Ethical Implications of Schelling's Organic WorldviewEnvironmental Values 14 (3): 295-316. 2005.This essay addresses the implications of German Idealism and Romanticism, and in particular the philosophy of Schelling as it is informed by Kant and Goethe, for contemporary environmental philosophy. Schelling's philosophy posits a nature imbued with freedom which gives rise to human beings, which means that any ethics, insofar as ethics is predicated upon freedom, will be an ‘environmental ethic’. At the same time, Schelling's organismic view of nature is distinctive in positing a fundamental …Read more
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191The "paradoxical displacement": Beauvoir and Irigaray on Hegel's antigoneJournal of Speculative Philosophy 14 (2): 121-137. 2000.
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78Negativity, Iconoclasm, MimesisIdealistic Studies 38 (1-2): 55-74. 2008.I argue that in Julia Kristeva’s concept of negativity, conceived of as the recuperation, through transformation, of a traumatic remnant of the past, we can find a parallel to what Theodor Adorno, following Walter Benjamin, calls a mimesis that in its emphasis on non-identity is able to remain faithful to the ban on graven images interpreted materialistically rather than theologically. A connection between negativity and the theological ban on images is suggested in Adorno’s claim that a ban on …Read more
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70Kenosis, Economy, InscriptionJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 21 (1): 120-126. 2013.Part of a roundtable on Julia Kristeva's The Severed Head: Chapters Five and Six of Julia Kristeva’s The Severed Head
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59Investing in a Third: Colonization, Religious Fundamentalism, and AdolescenceJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 22 (2): 36-45. 2014.In her keynote address to the Kristeva Circle 2014, Julia Kristeva argued that European Humanism dating from the French Revolution paradoxically paved the way for “those who use God for political ends” by promoting a completely and solely secular path to the political. As an unintended result of this movement this path has led, in the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries, to the development of a new form of nihilism that masks itself as revolutionary but in fact is the opposite, in Kristeva’s vi…Read more
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54Hegel on Reflection and Reflective JudgementHegel Bulletin 42 (2): 201-226. 2021.I examine the relation between logic and nature in terms of ‘reflection’, the word that Hegel uses at the end of theEncyclopaedia Logicto describe the self-sundering or externalization of the idea into nature. Although nominally the term ‘reflection’ seems to denote a uniquely mental process and is often used so by Hegel in his early critique ofReflexionsphilosophie, in his later writings it also has an irreducibly ontological significance. Hegel describes logic's opening-out to nature as a move…Read more
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13From “Vegetable Values” to the Human Animal: Wynter and Foucault on Race and the Unsettling of CultureGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 42 (1): 151-178. 2021.
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67Echoes of Beauty: In Memory of Pleshette DeArmittJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 23 (2): 67-75. 2015.There is a special poignancy to the fact that Pleshette DeArmitt's essay "Sarah Kofman's Art of Affirmation" foregrounds Freud's essay "On Transience," in which he muses on the fact that beauty seems to be inextricably linked to a fleeting existence. As DeArmitt writes, "beauty, even in full flowering, foreshadows its own demise, causing what Freud describes as 'a foretaste of mourning.'" Such a transience, in Freud's mind, increases rather than decreases the worth of all that is beautiful. In h…Read more
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32Art, Mysticism, and the Other: Kristeva’s Adel and TeresaJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 26 (2): 43-55. 2018.Kristeva's Teresa My Love concerns the life and thought of a 16th century Spanish mystic, written in the form of a novel. Yet the theme of another kind of foreigner, equally exotic but this time threatening, pops up unexpectedly and disappears several times during the course of the novel. At the very beginning of the story, the 21st century narrator, psychoanalyst Sylvia Leclerque, encounters a young woman in a headscarf, whom Kristeva describes as an IT engineer, who speaks out, explaining that…Read more
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49Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (review) (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (1): 65-68. 2006.
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Worldview Transformation and the Development of Social ConsciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 17 (7-8): 18-36. 2010.In this paper, we examine how increasing understanding and explicit awareness of social consciousness can develop through transformations in worldview. Based on a model that emerged from a series of qualitative and quantitative studies on worldview transformation, we identify five developmental levels of social consciousness: embedded, self-reflexive, engaged, collaborative, and resonant. As a person's worldview transforms, awareness can expand to include each of these levels, leading to enhance…Read more
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36The Vegetative Soul: From Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the FeminineState University of New York Press. 2002.Rethinks the soul in plant-like terms rather than animal, drawing from nineteenth-century philosophy of nature