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535Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom: Rejoinder to Ferree, Glaeser, and Steinmetz (review)Sociological Theory 27 (1). 2009.
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462This Universalism which is not One: Ernesto Laclau's EmancipationsDiacritics 28 (2): 3-20. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:This Universalism Which Is Not OneLinda M. G. Zerilli (bio)Ernesto Laclau. Emancipation(s). London: Verso, 1996.Judging from the recent spate of publications devoted to the question of the universal, it appears that, in the view of some critics, we are witnessing a reevaluation of its dismantling in twentieth-century thought. One of the many oddities about this “return of the universal” 1 is the idea that contemporary engagements wit…Read more
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359Symposium on Linda Zerilli's Feminism and the Abyss of FreedomSociological Theory 27 (1): 74-74. 2009.
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260Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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259Chapter two. "Une maitresse imperieuse": Woman in Rousseau's semiotic republicIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 16-59. 2018.
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184No Thrust, No Swell, No Subject?: A Critical Response to Stephen K. WhitePolitical Theory 22 (2): 323-328. 1994.
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136Value Pluralism and the Problem of JudgmentPolitical Theory 40 (1): 6-31. 2012.This essay examines the significantly different approaches of John Rawls and Hannah Arendt to the problem of judgment in democratic theory and practice
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92Between materialism and utopianism: Reflections on the work of Drucilla CornellPhilosophy and Social Criticism 22 (4): 95-108. 1996.
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73We Feel Our FreedomPolitical Theory 33 (2): 158-188. 2005.Critics of Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy argue that Arendt fails to address the most important problem of political judgment, namely, validity. This essay shows that Arendt does indeed have an answer to the problem that preoccupies her critics, with one important caveat: she does not think that validity is the all-important problem of political judgment--the affirmation of human freedom is.
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53Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom: Rejoinder to Ferree, Glaeser, and SteinmetzUniversity of Chicago Press. 2005.Offering both a discussion of feminism in its postmodern context and a critique of contemporary theory, the author here challenges feminists to move away from a theory-based approach, which focuses on securing or contesting "women" as an ...
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50Doing Without Knowing. Feminism's Politics of the OrdinaryPolitical Theory 26 (4): 435-458. 1998.A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. Wittgenstein
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46Judging Politically: Symposium on Linda M. G. Zerilli’s A Democratic Theory of Judgment, University of Chicago Press, 2016Political Theory 46 (4): 611-642. 2018.
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28Machiavelli's SistersPolitical Theory 19 (2): 252-276. 1991.If one is a woman, one is often surprised by a sudden splitting of consciousness, say in walking down Whitehall, when from being the natural inheritor of that civilization, she becomes, on the contrary, outside of it, alien and critical. Virginia Woolf
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28Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human RightsPolitical Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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25Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.The sixteen essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such…Read more
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23Philosophy’s Gaudy DressEuropean Journal of Political Theory 4 (2): 146-163. 2005.John Locke famously sets the arts of rhetoric at odds with the pursuit of knowledge. Drawing on the work of Ernesto Grassi, this article shows that Locke’s epistemological and political arguments are parasitic on the very tropes and figures he would exclude in any serious discourse. Accordingly, Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings and his famous argument for the social contract is read as exhibiting a rhetorical structure. This structure is crucial to Locke’s critique of heteronomy and h…Read more
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23Signifying woman: culture and chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and MillCornell University Press. 1994.CHAPTER ONE Political Theory as a Signifying Practice Political theory has been a heroic business, snatching us from the abyss a vocation worthy of giants. ...
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17Feminist Critique and the Realistic SpiritPhilosophy and Rhetoric 50 (4): 589-611. 2017.Anyone who goes beyond procedural questions of a discourse theory of morality and ethics and, in a normative attitude … embarks on a theory of the well-ordered, or even emancipated, society will very quickly run up against the limits of his own historical situation.For some time now, a certain strand of contemporary critical theory has understood its task not as providing a substantive critique of power relations, let alone an alternative normative conception of what social relations might be, b…Read more
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