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6Hegel and the Political Economy of the FamilyGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 44 (1): 171-194. 2023.In this article, I show that Hegel’s philosophical articulation of the family is inextricably bound to his engagement with political economy by focusing on three central aspects of his theory of the family. Firstly, I analyze how Hegel construes the family as a historically distinct social dispositif and constitutive element of the modern order of property. I argue that Hegel’s construction of the family and its place in the modern order of property is not only gendered but also racialized. Seco…Read more
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1IntroductionIn Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-17. 2014.
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Generation, Genealogy, and TimeIn Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences, State University of New York Press. pp. 21-43. 2014.
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2Dezentrierung und KritikIn Hilge Landweer, Catherine Newmark, Christine Kley & Simone Miller (eds.), Philosophie und die Potenziale der Gender Studies, Transcript. pp. 163-182. 2012.
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23Re-articulating Genealogy: Hegel on Kinship, Race and ReproductionHegel Bulletin 42 (2): 256-276. 2021.In the decades around 1800, genealogical imaginaries, or the social, political, economic and cultural meanings of descent and kinship, underwent far-reaching change. Hegel was deeply concerned with these transformations in various respects and in different parts of his philosophy. By engaging with the issues of kinship and family, with the disputes over racial diversity as well as with the scientific debates about life, reproduction and the meaning of sexual difference, Hegel contributed to a ph…Read more
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54Modes of naturalizationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 39 (2): 117-131. 2013.Strategies of naturalization have pervaded throughout the course of modernity. In order to understand both the stability and the discontinuities of modes of naturalization that refer to the knowledge of the life sciences, it is worth going back to the time when biology and related forms of naturalizing sex and race first emerged. The article explores philosophical articulations of biological knowledge at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Wilhel…Read more
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14Politicizing the Geological: Articulations of Earth and History in Modern Philosophical Race DiscourseCritical Philosophy of Race 9 (1): 27-47. 2021.Against the backdrop of the current “geological turn,” the article sheds light on the ways in which the earth has been articulated through strategies of temporalization and territorialization in the context of modern philosophical race discourse. The author first reconstructs the constitution of a “geographic imagination” as it emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first part focuses on the role of geography in Kant's theory of race, and Alexander von Humboldt's proj…Read more
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17Conceiving reproduction in German Naturphilosophie. IntroductionHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (2): 1-15. 2021.
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4The Value of JusticeThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 183-187. 2006."Justice" has been, since Plato and Aristotle, a concept of central importance in European philosophy. It is also a concept in everyday speech and in political discourse. As an inter-discursive concept, its value is not culturally limited, so that it seems particularly apt for use in discussions about achieving "globalization with a human face" (as one might say). For such processes of communication it is, however, necessary to reflect on the different uses made of this concept, which is claimed…Read more
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30The Cultural Embodiment of BiologyProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 44 53-61. 2008.Biology, established around 1800 as the “science of life,” has developed as not only a specific scientific discipline but it has also continually served as a kind of social knowledge. Biological knowledge supported the modern order of the sexes and the two-sex model that it was structured along, as well as modern racism and multiple forms of social inequality articulated by dichotomizing the normal and abnormal. However, the fledgling discipline of biology alone was not capable of developing the…Read more
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26SomatechnologiesTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 15 (2): 110-117. 2011.Until now, the body has played only a minor role in the philosophy of technology. However, more elaborate reflections on the relation between technology and the body are needed because of the advent of somatechnologies – technologies intentionally geared toward modifying bodies and that use bodily substances as technological means. The article discusses some approaches within the philosophy of technology that prove to be fruitful in this context. The article argues thatsomatechnical modification…Read more
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14Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2014._Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries._
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Biofilozofie. Filozoficzne strategie i polityczno-etyczne kształtowanie bionaukKronos - metafizyka, kultura, religia 4 (31). 2014.
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38Teresa Orozco: Platonische Gewalt. Gadamers politische Hermeneutik der NS-ZeitDie Philosophin 7 (13): 110-112. 1996.
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25Jutta Weber: Umkämpfte Bedeutungen. Naturkonzepte im Zeitalter der TechoscienceDie Philosophin 16 (31): 91-93. 2005.
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35Turning the turn: New materialism, historical materialism and critical theoryThesis Eleven 140 (1): 106-121. 2017.In many fields within the social sciences and the humanities, the ‘material turn’ has inspired fresh debates about human-nature relationships, ecology and the meaning of the social. However, the new materialism also poses some theoretical-political problems. These problems relate to the questions of ontology, epistemology and anthropology, as I argue in the first part of this article. In the second part, I argue that some theoretical-political problems that characterize the ‘new’ materialism hav…Read more
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14Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2014._Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries._
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35Bio-Technosciences in Philosophy: Challenges and Perspectives for Gender Studies in PhilosophyDiogenes 57 (1): 127-137. 2010.Since the 1960s the bio/technosciences have occupied a central place in philosophical thinking. The paper sets out three theoretical configurations embodying major challenges for today’s gender studies in philosophy, since they raise an obstacle, each in its own way, to the discussion on implications of the bio/technosciences in the political field and the area of gender theory: firstly naturalism in the field of the philosophy of science; secondly the paradigm of applied ethics; and thirdly the…Read more
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9Eingreifendes Denken: Wolfgang Fritz Haug zum 65. Geburtstag (edited book)Westfälisches Dampfboot.. 2001.
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105. Naturgeschichte und Geschichte der Menschheit: Zweiter Diskurs, erster TeilIn Lieselotte Steinbrügge & Johannes Rohbeck (eds.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Die Beiden Diskurse Zur Zivilisationskritik, De Gruyter. pp. 83-102. 2015.
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44Ute Frietsch: Die Abwesenheit des Weiblichen. Epistemologie und Geschlecht von Michel Foucault zu Evelyn Fox KellerDie Philosophin 16 (31): 88-91. 2005.
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Racism and Modernity: Festschrift for Wulf D. Hundt (review)Critical Philosophy of Race 1 (1): 136-140. 2013.
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16Review: Teresa Orozco: Platonische Gewalt. Gadamers politische Hermeneutik der NS-ZeitDie Philosophin 7 (13): 110-112. 1996.
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42The Value of JusticeThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 183-187. 2006."Justice" has been, since Plato and Aristotle, a concept of central importance in European philosophy. It is also a concept in everyday speech and in political discourse. As an inter-discursive concept, its value is not culturally limited, so that it seems particularly apt for use in discussions about achieving "globalization with a human face" (as one might say). For such processes of communication it is, however, necessary to reflect on the different uses made of this concept, which is claimed…Read more
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10Weit über das Fach hinaus prägen sie unser Denken und Sprechen und damit auch öffentliche Auseinandersetzungen. Die Autorin geht den geschlechterpolitischen Dimensionen dieser Biophilosophien nach.
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19Temporalities of reproduction: practices and concepts from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuryHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 37 (1): 1-16. 2015.
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