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5Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. Mcbride (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar
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Old age and the question of authenticityIn Liesbeth Schoonheim, Julia Jansen & Karen Vintges (eds.), Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary political theory: a toolkit for the 21st century, Routledge. 2023.
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4Beauvoir and the Marxism QuestionIn Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.Marxism was an integral aspect of Beauvoir's political and theoretical orientation from the mid‐1940s onwards and it colors much of her writings. This chapter first locates Beauvoir in her politico‐intellectual milieu. It then traces the complex ways in which, throughout her works, she draws on materialist and humanistic aspects of Marxism while also often distancing herself from the more mechanistic Marxism of the French Communist Party.
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7Existentialism and phenomenologyIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.Existentialism and phenomenology seem, at first glance, to constitute one of those rare strands of modern Western philosophy that converges productively with feminism. They form a tradition that opposes abstract, rationalist thought and is instead committed to elucidating concrete, “lived experience,” including experiences of embodiment and emotion. As such, they anticipate much “second‐wave” feminist thought that criticizes abstraction, beginning from accounts of women's concrete experiences an…Read more
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1Women's 'lived experience' : feminism and phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the presentIn Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Sumi Madhok, Ania Plomien & Sadie Wearing (eds.), The SAGE handbook of feminist theory, Sage Reference. 2014.
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19Alterity and Intersectionality: Reflections on Old Age in the Time of COVID-19Hypatia 37 (1): 196-209. 2022.There was a day in March 2020 when I discovered I was old. There had, of course, been quite a few previous intimations of impending old age, but they had not “really” defined my being for me. Some years earlier, I had been surprised when people started to offer me their seat on a crowded bus or train. At first, I politely refused the seat; later, I decided that I would accept such invitations because declining seemed ungracious, and because accepting would encourage this thoughtful behavior from…Read more
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197For a Modest Human Exceptionalism: Simone de Beauvoir and the 'New Materialisms'Simone de Beauvoir Studies 30 (2): 252-273. 2019.The "new materialisms' offer an important critique of 'human exceptionalism, however they tend to overstate their case by ignoring those qualities of freedom that remain distinctive to human life. The paper turns to Simone de Beauvoir to make an argument for a more modest human exceptionalism.
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For a Modest Human Exceptionalism: Simone de Beauvoir and the "New Materialisms"Simone de Beauvoir Studies 30 (2): 252-74. 2019.The “new materialisms” offer an important critique of “human exceptionalism,” challenging deeply held conceptions of “man” as a “sovereign subject.” However, they tend to overstate their claims by ignoring those qualities of freedom that still remain distinctive to human life. This article turns to Beauvoir to make a case for a more “modest” human exceptionalism: while she also grounds the human inextricably in the material, Beauvoir offers fuller resources than do new materialisms for examining…Read more
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15Book Review: Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter, by Lori Jo Marso (review)Political Theory 47 (1): 121-126. 2019.
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12The French New Left: An Intellectual History from Sartre to Gorz, by Arthur HirshJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 16 (2): 213-215. 1985.
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6Jean-Paul Sartre. Hated Conscience of His Century (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 4 (4): 51-54. 1991.
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13The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (review)International Studies in Philosophy 36 (4): 108-109. 2004.
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41Merleau-ponty, Hegel and the dialecticJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 7 (2): 96-110. 1976.
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10Living on Rails: Freedom, Constraint, and Political Judgment in Beauvoir's 'Moral'Essays and The MandarinsIn Sally Scholz & Shannon Mussett (eds.), The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's the Mandarins, Suny Press. pp. 67--86. 2005.
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78Identity Politics and Dialectical Reason: Beyond an Epistemology of ProvenanceHypatia 10 (2). 1995.Identity politics is important within feminism. However, it often presupposes an overly subjectivist theory of knowledge that I term an epistemology of provenance. I explore some works of feminist standpoint theory that begin to address the difficulties of such an epistemology. I then bring Sartre's account of knowledge in the Critique of Dialectical Reason to bear on these difficulties, arguing that his work offers tools for addressing them more adequately.
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44‘Spaces of Freedom’: Materiality, Mediation and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and SartreContemporary Political Theory 5 (4): 469-491. 2006.In the light of a renewed interest today in forms of direct political participation, this paper explores the contributions of Sartre and Arendt to defending direct political action as an intrinsically valuable form of human freedom. Both thinkers note, however, that such forms of action and the ‘spaces of freedom’ in which they become possible are always fleeting and transitory. The paper argues that Sartre's account of the ways in which human action is always mediated and alienated by materiali…Read more
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9Simone de Beauvoir: engaging discrepant materialismsIn Diana H. Coole & Samantha Frost (eds.), New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Duke University Press. pp. 258--80. 2010.
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179Merleau-ponty: A phenomenological critique of liberalismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 37 (3): 394-407. 1977.
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4Jean-Paul Sartre. Hated Conscience of His Century (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 4 (4): 51-54. 1991.
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10Note on mr spurlings review of adventures of dialecticJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 6 (3): 195-196. 1975.
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Introduction to 'Moral Idealism and Political Realism.'In Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann & Mary Beth Mader (eds.), Philosophical Writings, University of Illinois Press. pp. 165--173. 2004.