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Duplicity Makes the ManIn Clancy W. Martin (ed.), The philosophy of deception, Oxford University Press. pp. 104. 2009.
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"Woman's" Language, Man's Voice: A Reading of Gender and Language in NietzscheDissertation, Northwestern University. 1987.In this thesis, I diagnose a tension in Nietzsche's writings. Nietzsche's writings display a desire for both a mode of articulation produced by the aggressive conquerer and one born from the passive "original mother." I argue that this manifest conflict is the result of an unresolved oedipal complex. I use categories imported from both psychoanalysis and feminist theory in order to make my diagnosis. I defend my purely heuristic use of these categories by grounding them in Nietzsche's own writin…Read more
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158 N. McAfee Yet there is another group of readers to whom this volume is addressed, perhaps primarily: those who have categorized and dismissed Kristeva's work as essentialist, heterosexist, and, due to its debt to Lacanian psychoanalysis, misogynist. Critics such as Nancy Fraser (review)Semiotica 132 (1/2): 157-169. 2000.
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43Psychic space and social melancholyIn Kelly Oliver & Steve Edwin (eds.), Between the psyche and the social: psychoanalytic social theory, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 49--65. 2002.
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39Introduction : How to Do (Feminist) Things with WordsIn Kelly Oliver & Christina Hendricks (eds.), Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language, Suny Press. 1999.Introduction to Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy and Language, Ed. Christina Hendricks and Kelly Oliver. SUNY, 1999.
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Nietzsche's abjectionIn Peter J. Burgard (ed.), Nietzsche and the feminine, University Press of Virginia. pp. 53--70. 1994.
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9Hugh Silverman’s Cosmopolitan HospitalityIn Donald A. Landes (ed.), Between philosophy and non-philosophy: the thought and legacy of Hugh J. Silverman, Suny Press. pp. 171-174. 2016.
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2Revolt and ForgivenessIn 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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39Refugees 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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26The Limits and Dangers of Risk-Benefit Analysis: From the Refugee Crisis to the Coronavirus PandemicIn Elodie Boublil & Susi Ferrarello (eds.), The Vulnerability of the Human World: Well-being, Health, Technology and the Environment, Springer Verlag. pp. 13-27. 2023.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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47Sex, Breath, and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist EraLexington 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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10Feminist Time Against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age of Permanent War (edited book)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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27Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche (edited book)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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57Witnessing: Beyond RecognitionUniv 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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74Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language (edited book)SUNY Press. 1999.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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4The “Slow and Differentiated” Machinations of Deconstructive EthicsIn Zeynep Direk & Leonard Lawlor (eds.), A Companion to Derrida, Wiley-blackwell. 2014.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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23The Gestation of the Other in PhenomenologyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 3 (1-2): 79-116. 1995.
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82Shame, Depression, and Social MelancholySophia 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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8Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making “Good” Death a “Good” PenaltyIn Lisa Guenther, Geoffrey Adelsberg & Scott Zeman (eds.), Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration, Fordham Up. pp. 95-105. 2015.
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315 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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11Chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched ExecutionsIn 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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17Response ethicsRowman & 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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Gaslighting : pathologies of recognition and the colonisation of psychic spaceIn Paul Giladi & Nicola McMillan (eds.), Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of recognition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.
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Making Die or Letting Die: Derrida, Foucault, and the Refugee CrisisIn Rick Elmore & Ege Selin Islekel (eds.), The biopolitics of punishment: Derrida and Foucault, Northwestern University Press. 2022.
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