• Revolt and Forgiveness
    In 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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    Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality and Citizenship (edited book)
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
    This important new book explores the contemporary refugee crisis and the untold realities and experiences of refugees themselves. A team of top scholars offer a critical and necessary diagnosis of the challenges, complexities, and contradictions impacting our philosophical approaches to the contemporary figure of the refugee.
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    In this chapter, Kelly Oliver argues that while risk-benefit analysis may be necessary in a crisis situation such as the Covid-19 pandemic, that does not make it ethical. To the contrary, risk-benefit analysis is antithetical to ethics defined as responsibility to the singularity of each living being. Triage medicine, developed for the battlefield during wartime, relies on risk-benefit calculations. For example, calculations about which patient has the best chance for survival, or which patient …Read more
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    Sex, Breath, and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era
    with Jodi Dean, Cathrine Egeland, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Heinämaa, Lisa Käll, Johanna Oksala, Tiina Rosenberg, Kristin Sampson, and Vigdis Songe-Møller
    Lexington Books. 2006.
    This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account important shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass-media
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    Feminist Time Against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age of Permanent War (edited book)
    with Elizabeth Grosz, Dana Heller, E. Ann Kaplan, Julia Kristeva, and Benigno Trigo
    Lexington Books. 2008.
    Feminist Time Against Nation Time offers a series of essays that explore the complex and oftentimes contradictory relationship between feminism and nationalism through a problematization of contemporality. The collection pursues the following questions: how do the specific temporalities of nationalism and war limit and delimit public spaces in which dissent might happen; and how might we account for the often contradictory and ambiguous relationship of "feminism" and "nationalism" through an exp…Read more
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    Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche (edited book)
    with Marilyn Pearsall
    Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998.
    Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives. The organization of the volume into two sets of essays, "Nietzsche's Use of Woman" and "Feminists' Use of Nietzsche," reflects the two general approaches taken to the issue of Nietzsche and woman. First, many debates have focused on how to interpret Nietzsche's remarks about women and fe…Read more
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    Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
    Univ of Minnesota Press. 2001.
    Challenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement -- that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition -- this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identity and ...
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    Gathers authors with different backgrounds and methods to advance feminist discussions of the relation between language and women's oppression, suggesting promising new directions for further research
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    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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    Kristeva
    In 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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    The Gestation of the Other in Phenomenology
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 3 (1-2): 79-116. 1995.
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    Shame, Depression, and Social Melancholy
    Sophia 59 (1): 31-38. 2020.
    The pathologization of women’s depression covers over the social and institutional causes of that symptomology. Insofar as patriarchal values continue to devalue and debase women and mothers in ways that colonize psychic space, and depression becomes a cover for what I call ‘social melancholy.’ This is not the melancholy of traditional psychoanalysis, but a form of melancholy that results from oppression, domination, and the colonization of psychic space. Social melancholy differs from both Freu…Read more
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    15 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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    Chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions
    In 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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    Editors’ Introduction
    Philosophy Today 47 (Supplement): 3-11. 2003.
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    Reading Kristeva
    with Lauren Smith
    Substance 23 (2): 132. 1994.
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    Response ethics
    Rowman & 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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    Kristeva’s Rewriting of Totem and Taboo and Religious Fundamentalism
    Journal 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
  • Kristevas revolusjoner
    Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 21 (1): 34-52. 2003.
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    Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 48 (4): 473-493. 2015.
    For at least the last twenty years, philosophers have attempted various strategies for reviving the Hegelian notion of recognition and redeploying it in discourses centered around social justice, including multiculturalism, feminism, race theory, and queer theory. Hegel’s master-slave dialectic may seem like an obvious place to start to analyze the oppression of one group by another. Given that Hegel is not literally talking about slaves, however, but a stage of consciousness, indeed the onset o…Read more
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    11 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election
    In Richard Kearney & Kascha Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality, Fordham University Press. pp. 196-212. 2022.
  • 2 Fatherhood and the Promise of Ethics
    In 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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    Whose New Normal?
    Philosophy Today 64 (4): 901-905. 2020.
    Belying the rhetoric of “We’re all in this together,” and “COVID as the great equalizer,” the pandemic has brought into focus the “pre-existing conditions” of inequality—poverty, racism, lack of health care, lack of child care, women’s double burden, and the vulnerability of the elderly, among others. The coronavirus reveals gaping inequities in the length and quality of life caused by social and economic “pre-existing conditions.” It is the great unequalizer, the promise and ruse of “We’re all …Read more