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James Sares
Lecturer

 

Areas of Specialization: modern philosophy (especially Kant and Hegel), phenomenology, feminist philosophy

Areas of Competence: philosophy of science, ethics (teaching competence), logic and critical thinking (teaching competence)

 

Education

2022. Ph.D., Philosophy, Stony Brook University

2021-22. Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Universität Trier

2016. M.Phil., Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2015. M.A., Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2012. A.B., Anthropology, Harvard University

 

Publications

 

Edited Volumes

Topologies of Sexual Difference: Space in Philosophy and Visual Art After Irigaray, with Louise Burchill and Rebecca Hill. Under contract with SUNY Press.

What is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, with Mary C. Rawlinson, New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

 

Refereed Articles

“Beyond the Neuter Universal: Hegel and Sexual Difference.” Forthcoming at Hegel Bulletin.

“The Omnitemporality of Idealities.” Continental Philosophy Review (2024): 1–22. First View: doi: 10.1007/s11007-024-09629-3

“Hegel and the Paradox of Presence.” Hegel Bulletin (2023): 1–21. First View: doi: 10.1017/hgl.2023.21

“The Schizoanalysis of Sex: Toward a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sexual Ontology.” philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism. 10.1 (2020): 47–70.

“Hegel and the Observable: Phenomenology, Empirical Science, and the Problem of Scientific Theory.” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy. 31.1 (2019): 103–140.

 

Refereed Book Chapters

“Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference,” with Mary C. Rawlinson. In What is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares, 1–13. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

“The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference.” In What is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares, 17–38. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

“Irigarayan Ontology and the Possibilities of Sexual Difference.” In Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, edited by Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, 117–136. Albany: SUNY Press, 2022.

 

Other Publications

“Interview with physicist Christopher Fuchs,” with Robert P. Crease. Continental Philosophy Review. 54.4 (2021): 541–561.

“Review of Laura Roberts, Irigaray and Politics.” Sophia 61.1 (2022): 243–245.

Gottlob Ernst Schulze, “Aphorisms on the Absolute.” Edited by Kenneth Westphal, translated by Caleb Faul, James Sares, and Kenneth Westphal. The Owl of Minerva 51.1-2 (2020): 13–34.

 

Contact Information
james.sares@uky.edu
1415 Patterson Office Towe
859-257-1862
Research Interests
  • History of Modern Philosophy
  • Phenomenology
  • feminist philosophy
Affiliations
  • Philosophy