Kelly S Oliver

Contemporary French Feminism

Portable Kristeva

Portable Kristeva

Portable Kristeva

Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind

Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind

Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche

Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche

Kelly Oliver

Kelly Oliver (born 1958) is an American philosopher whose work contributes to the fields of feminism, film theory, media studies, political philosophy, and ethics.

The Portable Kristeva, Second Edition

As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today's neurotic. The Portable Kris...

Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animals s...

Witnessing: Beyond Recognition

Philosophy A new, ethically based theory of identity by a major scholar. Challenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement-that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition-this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identit...

Continental Feminism Reader

In an era of backlash and supposed stagnation, feminist philosophers are still providing fresh and challenging perspectives—you just have to know where to look. Continental feminist theory continues to address pressing questions of equality and difference, identity and subjectivity. Modern thinkers ...

Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind

"... both an excellent introduction and a thoroughgoing analysis of Kristeva’s writing." —Signs"The book is a brilliant combination of a recuperative and a critical reading of Kristeva’s work." —Changes: An International Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy"... a thorough, detailed, and critical an...

Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment

The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes ...

Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions

Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that...

Colonization Of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory Of Oppression

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