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7Slow philosophy: reading and the institutionBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. 2016.In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to take our time and to engage with the …Read more
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19Slow philosophy: reading against the institutionBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. 2017.In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to take our time and to engage with the …Read more
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27Nature, Obligation, and Transcendence: Reading Luce Irigaray with Mary GrahamSophia 61 (1): 187-201. 2022.This paper addresses the relation between Luce Irigaray’s work and politics by asking what it means to read her work locally, in place. The philosophical work of Indigenous scholar, Mary Graham, on the law of obligation, serves to ground such a local reading presenting, simultaneously, a case for a uniquely Australian philosophy. By way of suggesting possible connections between the work of Irigaray and Graham, the paper places Graham’s work on obligation alongside Irigaray’s work on the importa…Read more
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77Love, Ethics, and Authenticity: Beauvoir's Lesson in What It Means to ReadHypatia 25 (2). 2010.Beauvoir's distinction between romantic and authentic love offers us an opportunity for thinking through the complex refotions among phihsophy, reading, and love. If we accept her account of romantic love as a flawed, dependent mode of being, and her suggestion that an authentic love—one that engages maturely with the other—is possible, then we might take the risk of thinking of reading in these terms
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16Imaginary bodies: Ethics, power and corporealityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (2): 335-337. 1998.
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12Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading SilenceRoutledge. 1998._Philosophy and the Maternal Body_ gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.
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64Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading SilenceRoutledge. 1998._Philosophy and the Maternal Body_ gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.
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19Eating Ethically: Emmanuel Levinas and Simone WeilAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2): 295-320. 2002.Emmanuel Levinas’s work on the ethical responsibility of the face-to-face relation offers an illuminating context or clearing within which we might better appreciate the work of Simone Weil. Levinas’s subjectivity of the hostage, the one who is responsible for the other before being responsible for the self, provides us with a way of re-encountering the categories of gravity and grace invoked in Weil’s original account. In this paper I explore the terrain between these thinkers by raising the qu…Read more
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36Eating Ethically: Emmanuel Levinas and Simone WeilAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2): 295-320. 2002.Emmanuel Levinas’s work on the ethical responsibility of the face-to-face relation offers an illuminating context or clearing within which we might better appreciate the work of Simone Weil. Levinas’s subjectivity of the hostage, the one who is responsible for the other before being responsible for the self, provides us with a way of re-encountering the categories of gravity and grace invoked in Weil’s original account. In this paper I explore the terrain between these thinkers by raising the qu…Read more
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29Driven Back to the Text (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (1): 133-137. 2003.
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13A Short Story About Reason: The Strange Case of Habermas and PoePhilosophy Today 41 (3): 432-445. 1997.
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24Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. By NANCY J. HIRSCHMANNHypatia 25 (2): 472-476. 2010.
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European Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |