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    Two as an Odd Number
    Philosophy Research Archives 8 383-392. 1982.
    This paper attempts to show that Robert Cumming’s effort in a recent article to explain the work of Jacques Derrida to American philosophers fails to present an adequate account of Derrida’s position because Cumming does not take Derrida’s philosophical views (in this case, his critique of Heidegger) seriously enough. By returning to the Heideggerian and Derridian texts, three main points become clear: first, that Cumming fails to present an alternative interpretation of Heidegger on which to ba…Read more
  •  19
    Intentionality
    Noûs 20 (1): 103-108. 1986.
  • Heidegger and the problem of consciousness
    Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library. 2018.
    Charlemagne's monogram -- Introduction -- The problem of consciousness -- The earliest vision -- Truth, being, and mind -- The Kehre -- The essence of truth -- The later Heidegger -- Reading Heidegger after Heidegger -- Being not a soul but the unmediated discovery of being.
  •  39
    Tyranny and Blood: Rethinking Creon
    Philosophy and Literature 41 (1A): 1-11. 2017.
    This is certainly true for every translation, because every translation must necessarily accomplish the transition of the spirit of one language into that of another.We all know who and what Creon was. He was a tyrant—a proto-Nazi, according to French playwright Jean Anouilh. He was not even the same person in Sophocles's three Theban plays, according to translator H. D. F. Kitto.2 He was Antigone's uncle, her mother's brother. He was a symbol of the transition from a "rule of tradition" to a "r…Read more
  •  5
    The Treble Clef/t: Jacques Derrida and the Female Voice
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 654-658. 1988.
  •  15
    Feminist Politics and the Human Situation
    Philosophy Today 49 (Supplement): 100-104. 2005.
  • A Theory of Meaning After the End of Philosophy
    Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 1981.
    One undercurrent in contemporary philosophical thought is the suspicion that the traditional search for final and absolute answers is no longer possible. This dissertation, "A Theory of Meaning After the End of Philosophy", discusses some of the consequences of this view, specifically those which the French philosopher Jacques Derrida draws from it. The first is that any search for final and absolute answers will necessarily fall within what he calls the "metaphysics of presence". The second is …Read more
  •  15
    Philosophy Bashing, Its Causes and Cures
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (2). 1987.
  •  104
    Genre fiction and "the origin of the work of art"
    Philosophy and Literature 26 (1): 216-223. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 216-223 [Access article in PDF] Notes and Fragments Genre Fiction and "The Origin of the Work of Art" Nancy J. Holland I FIRST, A CONFESSION. Like, I suspect, many of my readers, I am an unpublished fiction writer. Unlike most of the closet fiction writers in academia, however, I write genre fiction. The question that immediately follows is how that writing is related to the intellectual work I d…Read more
  •  49
    This paper investigates the philosophy of science that is implicit in all of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work, but made more explicit in the lectures recently published as _Nature<D>. It outlines the relevant argument from these lectures and concludes that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of science is difficult to see as such because of the way he blends philosophy, science, and philosophy of science in his work by interweaving phenomenology with empirical data from the natural and social sciences
  •  18
    This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's “hauntology” as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the bodies of women, in this case the always absent daughter. A careful reading suggests that Derrida, and playwnght fathers of daughters such as Shakespeare and August Wilson, may be aware of the paradoxes of their situation.
  •  2
    No Title available: Dialogue
    Dialogue 48 (1): 209-211. 2009.
  •  7
    If I Know I Can Be Wrong
    Philosophy Today 54 (Supplement): 122-127. 2010.
  •  42
    Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida (edited book)
    Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997.
    Much contemporary feminist theory continues to see itself as freeing women from patriarchal oppression so that they may realize their own inner truth. To be told by postmodern thinkers such as Jacques Derrida that the very possibility of such a truth must be submitted to the process of deconstruction thus seems to present a serious challenge to the feminist project. From a postmodern perspective, on the other hand, most feminist discourse remains deeply rooted, if not in essentialism, at least i…Read more
  •  7
    With Arms Wide Open
    Philosophy Today 45 (Supplement): 133-137. 2001.
  •  64
    This paper reconsiders Marcuse's Eros and Civilization from the perspective of Gayle Rubin's classic article “The Traffic in Women.” The primary goals of this comparison are to investigate the social and psychological mechanisms that perpetuate the archaic sex/gender system Rubin describes under current conditions of post-industrial capitalism; to open possible new avenues of analysis and liberatory praxis based on these authors’ applications of Marxist insights to cultural interpretations of Fr…Read more
  •  33
    In Derrida’s Wake
    Radical Philosophy Review 8 (2): 131-142. 2005.
    This paper takes a feminist look back at Derrida’s work roughly from “Plato’s Pharmacy” to Politics of Friendship, setting it in the context of three other sets of writings: Plato’s Lysis and Phaedrus; French philosophy in the mid-twentieth century, especially the ethical and political thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir; and contemporary re-visions of two Greek tragedies, Oedipus and Orestes/Electra. What brings these disparate themes together are Derrida’s thought, the work…Read more
  • With One Headlight
    Philosophy Today 46 (Supplement): 28-33. 2002.
  •  24
    Taking Jean Giraudoux's play _The Madwoman of Chaillot _as its starting point, this book seeks a way out of the dilemma that confronts those who feel that any nonrelativistic moral theory requires some metaphysical foundation but cannot see how a foundations position can be persuasively defended. Nancy Holland draws on the work of Heidegger and Derrida to formulate a concept of appropriate action that can address both extraordinary ethical problems within a particular cultural tradition and mora…Read more
  •  21
    Ontological Humility: Lord Voldemort and the Philosophers
    State University of New York Press. 2013.
    Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory
  •  17
    Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger (edited book)
    with Patricia J. Huntington
    Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001.
    Martin Heidegger's commitment to the idea that _Dasein_ is ultimately gender neutral, as well as several other major aspects of his thought, raises significant questions for feminist philosophers. The fourteen essays included in this volume clearly illustrate the ways in which feminist readings can deepen our understanding of his philosophy. They illuminate both the richness and the limitations of the resources his work can provide for feminist thought. This volume engages the full scope of Heid…Read more
  •  4
    With Arms Wide Open
    Philosophy Today 45 (Supplement): 133-137. 2001.
  •  87
    : This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's "hauntology," as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the bodies of women, in this case the always absent daughter. A careful reading suggests that Derrida, and playwright fathers of daughters such as Shakespeare and August Wilson, may be aware of the paradoxes of their situation
  • Letter from the editor
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (n/a): 3. 1987.
  •  7
    In Derrida’s Wake
    Radical Philosophy Review 8 (2): 131-142. 2005.
    This paper takes a feminist look back at Derrida’s work roughly from “Plato’s Pharmacy” to Politics of Friendship, setting it in the context of three other sets of writings: Plato’s Lysis and Phaedrus; French philosophy in the mid-twentieth century, especially the ethical and political thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir; and contemporary re-visions of two Greek tragedies, Oedipus and Orestes/Electra. What brings these disparate themes together are Derrida’s thought, the work…Read more