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5Feminism and Ancient Philosophy, by Julie K. Ward (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 18 62-64. 1998.
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14Plato and Levinas: The Same and the OtherJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30 (2): 131-150. 1999.
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37Race and Sex in Western Philosophy: Another Answer to the Question “What Does It Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?”Critical Philosophy of Race 6 (2): 180-197. 2018.This article critically extends Kant's 1786 discussion of “orientation in thinking” to ask what it means to “orient oneself in thinking” around the concepts of race and sex, addressed in the context of 1) the central place and historical importance of Kant in Western philosophy; and 2) Kant's theory of race and its relation to his critical philosophy. As presumptions about race and sex are already built into the history of philosophy, taking these concepts as an explicit orientation is not the e…Read more
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120Kant, race, and natural historyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (9): 950-977. 2018.This article presents a new argument concerning the relation between Kant’s theory of race and aspects of the critical philosophy. It argues that Kant’s treatment of the problem of the systematic unity of nature and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment can be traced back a methodological problem in the natural history of the period – that of the possibility of a natural system of nature. Kant’s transformation of the methodological problem from natura…Read more
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26From Geschlechtstrieb to Sexualtrieb : the originality of Freud's conception of sexualityIn Richard G. T. Gipps & Michael Lacewing (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Oxford University Press. pp. 83-105. 2019.This chapter examines the apparent proximity between Schopenhauer’s and Freud’s views on the nature and importance of what is called, amongst other things, ‘sexuality’, the ‘sexual impulse’, the ‘sexual instinct’ or ‘the ‘sexual drive’. It argues, against the idea that Freud's conception is basically borrowed from Schopenhauer, for the originality of Freud’s early theory of sexuality and suggest that the significance of this theory, apart from its obvious psychiatric and social import, lies in i…Read more
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34Kant's legacyIn Anthony Morgan (ed.), The Kantian catastrophe? Conversations on finitude and the limits of philosophy., Bigg Books. pp. 65-80. 2017.
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47Genos, sex, gender and genreIn Kirsten Malmkjær, Adriana Serban & Fransiska Louwagie (eds.), Key cultural texts in translation, John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 9-24. 2018.This chapter discusses translators’ efforts to render the grammatical gender of Plato’s Greek in passages of the Republic, and to translate his terms noting differences between men and women with terms associated with the identity-defining concepts of sex and gender. It argues that the translation of 'genos' as 'sex' reveals less about the source text than about the role of the concept of sex in the translating culture. A discussion of a similar controversy in contemporary translation shows how …Read more
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29Beauvoir's transdisciplinarity: from philosophy to gender theoryIn Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. pp. 15-27. 2017.This paper begins with a brief survey of recent attempts to identify the nature of Beauvoir’s contested relation to philosophy. It then discusses the transition from her early, more conventionally philosophical essays to her much more unconventional great work The Second Sex. It argues that the philosophical innovations of The Second Sex were dependent on Beauvoir’s relations to other disciplines and intellectual fields, such that Beauvoir’s philosophical originality has interdisciplinary condit…Read more
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20Listening to the Student VoiceThe Philosophers' Magazine 77 10-13. 2017.A defence of students' demands to 'decolonise' the curriculum.
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73Contradiction of Terms: Feminist Theory, Philosophy and TransdisciplinarityTheory, Culture and Society 32 (5-6): 159-182. 2015.What happens when well-defined disciplines meet or are confronted with transdisciplinary discourses and concepts, where transdisciplinary concepts are analytical tools rather than specifications of a field of objects or a class of entities? Or, if disciplines reject transdisciplinary discourses and concepts as having no part to play in their practice, why do they so reject them? This essay addresses these questions through a discussion of the relationship between philosophy – the most tightly po…Read more
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1Chetan Bhatt, Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of PostmodernityRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Rudi Visker, Truth and Singularity: Taking Foucault into PhenomenologyRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Wendy Cealey Harrison and John Hood-Williams, Beyond Sex and GenderRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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5Philosophies of race and ethnicity (edited book)Continuum. 2002.Introduction: philosophies of race and ethnicity / Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford -- pt. 1. Ch. 1. Philosophy and racial identity / Linda Martin Alcoff -- ch. 2. Fanon, phenomenology, race / David Macey -- Ch. 3. Primordial being: enlightenment and the Indian subject of postcolonial theory / Chetan Bhatt -- Ch. 4. Race and language in the two Saussures / Robert J.C. Young -- pt. 2. Ch. 5. Unspeakable histories: diasporic lives in old England / Bill Schwarz -- Ch. 6. Race, colonialism and history…Read more
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25"Sex"In Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Barbara Cassin & Michael Wood (eds.), A Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Princeton University Press. 2014.
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16Book Review of:'Emmanuel Levinas: the genealogy of ethics' by John Llewelyn (review)Radical Philosophy 80. 1996.
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43How to read BeauvoirGranta. 2006.Written for an introductory series, this book contains the outcome of research into the disputed place of Beauvoir's work within the French philosophical tradition, and the philosophical significance of various of her particular works.
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90Contingent ontologies: sex, gender and'woman'in Simone de Beauvoir and Judith ButlerRadical Philosophy 97 18-29. 1999.