On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian Howie Materialism and Mortality

by Browne, Victoria; Whistler, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781474254120
• ISBN10: 1474254128
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-10-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Author Biography

Victoria Browne is Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her main research interests are in feminist and political philosophy, and the philosophy of history and temporality. Publications include Feminism, Time and Nonlinear History (2014), Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death: Relationality and the Ethics of Intimacy (2015), and Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness: The Temporal Dynamics of Feminist Politics (2014). Victoria is also a member of the Editorial Collective for the journal Radical Philosophy.

Daniel Whistler is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany. He is author of Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity (2013) and co-author of The Right to Wear Religious Symbols (2013).

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
Victoria Browne and Daniel Whistler

Part 1: Feminism, Materialism, Critical Theory
1. Philosophy, Feminism, Critique: The Meaning of Historical Materialism in Howie's Late Work
Stella Sandford
2. Feminist Knowledge and Feminist Politics: Reflections on Howie and Late Feminism
Kimberly Hutchings
3. Between Negative Dialectics and Sexual Difference: Generative Conjunctures in the Thinking of Gillian Howie
Joanna Hodge
4. Scholarly Time and Feminist Time: Gillian Howie on Education, Inheritance and Legacy
Victoria Browne
5. What Are Intellectuals For?
Bob Brecher

Part 2: Living with Dying
6. How to Think about Death: Living with Dying
Gillian Howie
7. Gillian Howie's Situated Philosophy: Theorising the Intersections of Self, Body and World
Christine Battersby
8. Learning to Die, Finally
Claire Colebrook
9. Reflections on 'Living up to Death'
Morny Joy
10. Dying with Others
Alison Stone
11. Movie-making as Palliative Care
Amy Hardie
12. Cancer Sucks: Photography and the Representation of Chronic Illness
Nedim Hassan
13. Lights Out: Writing and Reading at the End of Life
Deryn Rees-Jones
14. Art and Living with Dying
Ruth Gould and Janet Price

Index