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4Entgrenzungen der Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik: Festschrift für Helmuth Vetter zum 70. Geburtstag (edited book)Verlag Traugott Bautz. 2012.
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5The Indeterminable GenderJanus Head 13 (1): 17-34. 2013.What kind of ethics can we consider in the framework of feminist phenomenology that takes poststructuralist feminism into account? This seems to be a difficult task for at least two reasons. First, it is not yet clear what ethics in poststructuralist feminism is. Second, phenomenology and poststructuralism are still regarded as opposites. As a phenomenologist with strong affinities to poststructuralism, I want to take on this challenge. In this paper, I will argue that phenomenology and poststru…Read more
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18Laughter and IntentionalityProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 27 123-128. 2018.A remarkable number of philosophies of laughter center their research on explosive laughter. When it comes to 20th century philosophers of laughter, this is true for Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Hélène Cixous and Helmuth Plessner among others. What those approaches share is the assumption that in explosive laughter people are rendered powerless. Others, as for example Georges Bataille speak of the entire loss of intentionality. But how far does the loss of intentionality and power really go? Fr…Read more
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9Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, and Time (edited book)De Gruyter. 2014.International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from North America and Europe offer a unique look at one of the most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. The articles cover three main issues: gender, ethics, and time. This volume offers valuable contributions to Beauvoir studies, aging studies, cultural and gender studies, feminist theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.
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80Asymmetrical Genders: Phenomenological Reflections on Sexual DifferenceHypatia 20 (2): 7-26. 2005.One of the most fundamental premises of feminist philosophy is the assumption of an invidious asymmetry between the genders that has to be overcome. Parallel to this negative account of asymmetry we also find a positive account, developed in particular within the context of so-called feminist philosophies of difference. I explore both notions of gender asymmetry. The goal is a clarification of the notion of asymmetry as it can presently be found in feminist philosophy. Drawing upon phenomenology…Read more
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6Review: Sabine Doyé / Marion Heinz / Friederike Kuster (Hg.): Philosophische GeschlechtertheorienDie Philosophin 13 (26): 100-102. 2002.
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37Are Butler’s Theory of Performativity and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Expressivity Really Contradictory?Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 25 143-149. 2008.Until now post-structuralism is widely regarded as an opposite to phenomenology. This is also true for the relation of Butler’s post-structuralism and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. The aim of this paper is to show how close they are to each other. For this purpose, I will focus on Butler’s poststructuralist theory of performativity to confront it with Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological theory of expression. While Butler accuses theories of expression of being essentialist, I argue that Merleau-Po…Read more
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24Wahrnehmung bei Merleau-Ponty: Studie zur "Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung"Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes. 1995.Der französische Phänomenologe Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) hat sich sein ganzes Oeuvre hindurch mit der Wahrnehmung auseinandergesetzt. Diesseits von empiristischen und rationalistischen Vorurteilen versucht er, der Eigenlogik der Wahrnehmung gerecht zu werden. Seine Interpretation mündet in die These vom Primat der Wahrnehmung, wonach die Wahrnehmung Grundphänomen ist. Die Autorin widmet sich in ihrer Studie der Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung (1945), worin Merleau-Pontys Wahrnehmungstheor…Read more
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21Reflections on Feminist Merleau-Ponty SkepticismHypatia 15 (1): 175-182. 2000.Shannon Sullivan's critique of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is based on the argument that, due to his concept of the “anonymous body,” his theory of intersubjectivity omits the particularities of bodies, such as gender. I argue that Merleau-Ponty's “anonymous body” is not in fact “neutral” as Sullivan suggests, and moreover that he does not ignore differences but rather provides us with the idea of difference as a process of differentiation. Additionally, I argue that Sullivan's c…Read more
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5ContributorsIn Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter. pp. 235-242. 2014.
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189Asymmetrical genders: Phenomenological reflections on sexual differenceHypatia 20 (2): 7-26. 2005.One of the most fundamental premises of feminist philosophy is the assumption of an invidious asymmetry between the genders that has to be overcome. Parallel to this negative account of asymmetry we also find a positive account, developed in particular within the context of so-called feminist philosophies of difference. I explore both notions of gender asymmetry. The goal is a clarification of the notion of asymmetry as it can presently be found in feminist philosophy. Drawing upon phenomenology…Read more
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15Sabine Doyé / Marion Heinz / Friederike Kuster (Hg.): Philosophische GeschlechtertheorienDie Philosophin 13 (26): 100-102. 2002.
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3Index of NamesIn Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter. pp. 243-244. 2014.
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16Debra Bergoffen: The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic GenerositiesDie Philosophin 8 (16): 90-93. 1997.
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5Corporeity and Affectivity: Dedicated to Maurice Merleau-Ponty (edited book)Brill. 2013.This volume focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s important contribution to the phenomenology of corporeity and affectivity, and it explores the various influences his work had and still has on other disciplines
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Von der heterosexuellen Liebe zur Liebe: Eine Replik auf Ferdinand FellmannE-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie 14. 2010.
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14Gender and Anonymous temporalityIn Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski & Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press. pp. 79. 2011.
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24Bettina Schmitz: Die Unterwelt bewegen. Politik, Psychoanalyse und Kunst in der Philosophie Julia KristevasDie Philosophin 12 (23): 127-130. 2001.
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4Nietzsches radikales Lachen: Spuren einer Philosophiekritik der ungewohnten ArtIn Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir & Helmut Heit (eds.), Nietzsche Als Kritiker Und Denker der Transformation, De Gruyter. pp. 275-296. 2016.
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152Expressivity and performativity: Merleau-ponty and Butler (review)Continental Philosophy Review 43 (1): 97-110. 2010.Until now post-structuralism and phenomenology are widely regarded as opposites. Contrary to this opinion, I am arguing that they have a lot in common. In order to make my argument, I concentrate on Judith Butler’s poststructuralist concept of performativity to confront it with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological concept of expressivity. While Butler claims that phenomenological theories of expression are in danger of essentialism and thus must be replaced by non-essentialist theories of pe…Read more