Teaching
Radboud University | Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology | Philosophy, Politics, and Society | Graduate Seminars
Trans*formations
This course follows gender nonconforming mystics from antiquity to the present into the desert to seek transformed relationships to our self, sexuality, spirituality, intimacy, communities, and society. We will develop our philosophical voices through experimental journaling and communal writing.
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Philosophy of Culture
When do we shift from infancy to social subjects shaped by culture? When does culture first imprint itself onto our being? Who does culture make visible and who does it erase? How do we resist and transform culture?
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Columbia University | Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender | Core Curriculum
Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art : On Sensation
A philosophical and emobidied study of the aesthetic sensations of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, movement. How does the focus on each sensation expand or challenge our concept of art?
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Feminist Theory : On Erotic Becoming
What is the relationship between politics and our deepest emotions, intimate encounters, and secret fantasies?
image: Lyle Ashton Harris from Musser’s Sensual Excess
Contemporary Civilization
Sophmore year-long core seminar. Forming a just and happy community through the history of comparative socio-political philosophy, ethics, and religion.
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Literature Humanities
Freshman year-long core seminar. Challenging the myth of the origins and primacy of the West through the lens of comparative religion, politics, gender, race, and decolonial theory.
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Universität Hamburg | Philosophy | Jewish Studies | Graduate Seminars
Hegels Herr-Knecht-Dialektik
Wir werden Hegels Narrativ genauer unter die Lupe nehmen, indem wir künstlerische Darstellungen von asymmetrischen Machtverhältnissen heranziehen, die sich mit Themen wie Sexualität, Geschlecht und Race beschäftigen.
Sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. More information.
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Existential Ontology and Ethics
Developing an ethics that encompasses Being-in-Solitude and Being-with-Others. What is our responsibility to the other in both isolation and in the process of coming together?
image: Les otages © Jean Fautrier
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
The development of European philosophy against the backdrop of world wars. Can theory respond to historical crisis & trauma?
image: Shalekhet © Menashe Kadishman
Environmental Ethics
Comparing ethical frameworks with a focus on a Marxist-Feminist approach to sustainability. Why is saving the planet about power relations?
image: the Bakken oil region, NASA’s Terra satellite
Repetition & Revolutions
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy of History with a focus on responses to Hegel and Marx. Does history repeat itself?
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The Comedy of Politics
A course in political philosophy and aesthetics with a focus on political satire. Can art seriously challenge political corruption?
Villanova University | Philosophy and Ethics
Introduction to Ethics
Comparing major ethical frameworks with a focus on Catholic Virtue Ethics. What virtues are required for the challenges of the 21st century?
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Introduction to Philosophy
Tracing the history of Western philosophy through dialogues, soliloquies, and manifestos. How can philosophy represent the needs and desires of our self and community?
R. A. Aumiller 