Responsibilities

Current Teaching

PHD supervision: Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy

MA Course: Ethics and Phenomenology: Derrida and Nancy

Third Year Course: Heidegger and phenomenology:

Reading Being and Time

Second Year Course: Ethics and Terror: Kant, and Arendt, Derrida and Levinas

Background

General research interests and areas of graduate supervision

• Renewing phenomenology
• Derrida on time
• Transcendental Philosophy and Aesthetics: Nancy, Benjamin, Hegel, Kant
• Genealogies of Future Differences
• Rethinking Transcedental Aesthetics

Current Research Projects

AHRB funded project on Derrida and Time (2003-2004):

publication 2007 Derrida on Time Routledge London and New York

topography; passive synthesis; finitude, infinity, non-decidability; theology without religon, religon without theology; autobiography as transcendental synthesis

Landscape in Ruins: Beauty, Art and Technological Residues (2009-10)

Rethinking Transcendental Aesthetics: Curvature and History

Qualifications

• 1983 D. Phil: “Martin Heidegger’s Account of Truth: A study of Sein und Zeit”
  Examiners Alan Montefiore and John Macquarrie
  Wolfson College, Oxford
• 1982 MA Oxon
• 1979 Matriculated at Karl Ruprecht Universitaet, Heidelberg
• 1975 BA Oxon (Philosophy and Economics)
  Somerville College, Oxford

Affiliations

• Member of the Husserl Circle, Society for Women in Philosophy, Hegel Society of Great Britain, British Society for Phenomenology, Society for European Philosophy, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
• Editorial Boards of Aesthetic pathways (APW); Derrida Today; Angelaki: Journal for Theoretical Humanities and the Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology
• Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, Association of Senior Members, Somerville College, Oxford

Publications

Books:

Derrida on Time Routledge London and New York 2007

paperback 2010

Reviews

in Radical Philosophy 149, by Jean Paul Martinon (Goldsmiths) 

Times Literary Supplement numbers 5499/5500, by Nicholas Royle (Sussex)

 JBSP vol. 39, no. 1, January 2009, by Patrick O’Connor (Nottingham Trent)         

Kantian Review no. 10, 2009, by Nick Vaughan Williams (Exeter)

Derrida Today vol. 2, no. 2, 2009 by Mauro Sentore (Leeds)

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, webpages, by Linnell Secomb (Greenwich)

Heidegger and Ethics Routlege London and New York 1995

translation into Portugese 1997

Articles in journals:

2010 "Otherwise than Ontology: Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger" Derrida Today vol. 3. no 1 Spring 2010

2007    “Derrida’s Transcendental Contraband”, Textual Practice Special Edition vol. 21, no.  2, edited Simon Morgan Wortham

2006    “Phenomenologies of Faith and Hope: Heidegger on Religion”, special issue of Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology on Religion vol. 37, no. 1,   2006, edited Jim Urpeth

2005    “Husserl, Freud: a suivre, Derrida on Time”, Journal of the British Society for  Phenomenology vol. 36, no. 2, May 2005

2004 “Ethics and Time: Levinas between Kant and Husserl”, Diacritics: Journal of contemporary criticism, Vol. 32, number 3, Spring 2004

2003 “Feminism and Utopia: Irigaray reading Kant”, special issue edited by Gill Howie, Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 14, number 2, Spring 2003

2002 “Why aesthetics might be several: on Nancy and Technics”, special issue On the Ends of Aesthetics, edited Gary Banham, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 7, number 1

2001 "Goddesses of Destiny: Persephone, Medusa, Moira", New Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 4, numbers 3/4, Winter 2000-2001

1999 "Heideggerian Temporalities: Genesis and Structure of a thinking of many dimensional time", in Research in Phenomenology, volume XXIX

1999 "Renaming the Law: Derrida and Sexual Difference", Special Issue on Feminism and Political Theory, Women's Philosophy Review Vol. 20

1998 "Time and the Body: A Small History of the Body", Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, General Issue, Vol. 3, number 3

Articles in books:

2010 "Queering Hegel: three incisions" in Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist thought  edted Kimberly Hutchings and Tuija Pulkkinen Palgrave: London

2010 "Topography of the Border: Derrida rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics" in The Catstrophic Imperative Subjecitivity Time and Memory edited Dominiek Hoens, and Sigi Jottkondt Palgrave: London

2010 "Something unique is afoot in Europe: Derrida reading Kant" in The Politics to Come: Power, Modernity, and the Messianic edited by Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher Continuum: London

2007    “Phenomenology to come; reading Derrida elliptically”, for Martin McQuillan (ed.) The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other, Pluto, London

2007    “Poietic Epistemology; reading Husserl through Adorno and Heidegger”, for Iain Macdonald and Krzysztof Ziarek (eds.) Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

2005 “Authenticity and Apriorism in Husserl’s Phenomenology”, for Gary Banham (ed.): Husserl and the Logic of Experience, Palgrave: London

2005 “Walter Benjamin on elective affinity”, for Andrew Benjamin and Beatrice Hansen (eds.): Walter Benjamin on Time, Continuum: London

2003 “Kant par excellence”, introduction to Philip Rothfield (ed.) Kant after Derrida, Clinamen Press, Manchester

2003 “Adorno and Heidegger: Between Aesthetics and Politics”, for John Joughin and Simon Malpas (eds): The New Aestheticism, Manchester University Press, Manchester

2000 "Forays in Philosophical Feminism: Sexual Difference, Genealogy, Teleology", for Ahmed et al (eds.) Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism, Routledge, London

2000 "Disjunctive Reading: Heterodoxical Kant", for Rachel Jones and Andrea Rehberg (eds.): The Matter of Critique: Readings in Kant’s critical philosophy, Clinamen Press, Manchester

2000 "The Epistemotopology of the Demon", for Gary Banham and Charlie Blake (eds.): Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester University Press, Manchester

2000 "Demonic Nihilism and Philosophical Inheritance", for Keith Ansell Pearson and Diane Morgan (eds.): Monsters of Energy, Macmillan, London

2000 "Freedom, Phusis, Techne: thinking the inhuman", for John Joughin (ed.): The Inhuman, Manchester University Press, Manchester

1999 "Habermasian Passion and Nietzschean Contagion", for Babette Babich (ed.): Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht