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    Judith Butler’s “New Humanism”: A Thing or Not a Thing, and So What?
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5 (1): 25-40. 2015.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Judith Butler’s “New Humanism”A Thing or Not a Thing, and So What?Sina KramerA few thinkers in the last few years, such as Stefan Dolgert and Miriam Leonard, but especially political theorist Bonnie Honig, have argued that Judith Butler’s most recent work (Antigone’s Claim, 2000; Undoing Gender, 2004; Precarious Life, 2005; Frames of War, 2009) institutes a new form of humanism, based on the universality of grief, mourning, vulnerabi…Read more
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    The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Amy Allen
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (2): 357-362. 2017.
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    Continental and Feminist Philosophical Pedagogies: Conditions
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2 (1): 68-71. 2012.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Continental and Feminist Philosophical PedagogiesConditionsSina KramerIn thinking through what it means to teach continental and feminist philosophy, I keep coming back to a somewhat enigmatic line from Adorno’s essay, “Why Still Philosophy?”: “Because philosophy is good for nothing, it is not yet obsolete” (Adorno 2005, 15). I believe that this dialectical aphorism has everything to do with the conditions under which we as teachers …Read more
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    Derrida's “Antigonanette”: On the Quasi‐Transcendental
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (4): 521-551. 2014.
    In this article, I rely both on Derrida's 1974 work Glas, as well as Derrida's 1971–72 lecture course, “La famille de Hegel,” to argue that the concept of the quasi-transcendental is central to Derrida's reading of Hegel and to trace its implications beyond the Hegelian system. I follow Derrida's analysis of the role of Antigone—or, as the lecture course has it, “Antigonanette”—in Hegel's thought to argue that the quasi-transcendental indicates a restriction of empirical difference into the tran…Read more
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    On negativity in Revolution in Poetic Language
    Continental Philosophy Review 46 (3): 465-479. 2013.
    Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language offers a challenge to theories of the subject in psychoanalysis, linguistic theory, and in philosophy. Central to that challenge is Kristeva’s conception of negativity. In this article, I trace the development of the concept of negativity in Revolution in Poetic Language from its root in Hegel, to rejection, which Kristeva develops out of Freud. Both are crucial to the development of the material dialectic between the semiotic and the symbolic that makes …Read more