Debra Bergoffen

BOOKS

The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities. New York: SUNY Press, Jan. 1997. Selected for a book session at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October, 1997. Selected for the book session of the Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française at the American Philosophical Association, December 1997.

EDITED BOOKS

Remembrance and Responsibility: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. (co-edited with Linda Alcoff and Merold Westphal) Vol. 23. Also known as Philosophy Today vol. 41 Supplement (May 1998).

Other Openings: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. (co-edited with John Caputo) vol.22. Also known as Philosophy Today vol. 41 (April 1997).

Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science. (co-edited with Babette E. Babich and Simon E. Glynn) Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995.

ARTICLES

"On Making Promises to a Woman Named Truth", In Reading the Vattimo Reader. Hugh Silverman and Whelm Wurzer, eds. (forthcoming)

"Whither the We? Lyotard, Jews and the `jews'," in Reading the Lyotard Reader. eds. Hugh Silverman and Whelm Wurzer. (forthcoming)

"Buffoonery", in Representations. eds. Tom Brockleman, Hugh Silverman, Whelm Wurzer. (forthcoming)

"Improper Sites", in Representations of Auschwitz. ed. James Watson (forthcoming)

"Disrupting the Metonomies of Gender", in Feminist Enactments. ed. Dorothea Olkowski (forthcoming)

"Supposing Truth Were (Not) A Woman....What Then?", in Nietzsche/Drama/Culture. ed. Alan Schrift (forthcoming)

"Between The Ethical and the Political: Phenomenological Ambiguities", in The Existentialist Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir. eds. Dorothy Leland and Lester Embree (forthcoming)

"I Never Imagined Myself a Philosopher", in Amerikanische Philosophie der Gegerwart: 22 photogrammische Portrate der Kontinental Philosophen, ed. James Watson. (forthcoming) [This is the third volume in the Neue Americkanische Philosophie series published by Turia/Kant. Twenty two American philosophers working in the continental tradition were selected to represent American continental philosophy to German readers.]

"Haunted By (Another) Hope", in Reading Derrida's Gift of Time. ed. Stephen Barker. (forthcoming)

"Mourning, Woman and the Phallus: Lacan's Hamlet," Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier. Hugh Silverman, ed. (New York: Routledge,1998) pp. 140-153.

"Intentionale Angste bekamphen," Phanomenologie und Geschlecterdifferenz. Silvia Stoller and Helmuth Vetter,ed. (Austria: WUV-Universitatsverlag, 1997) pp.187-206. [This is a translation of "Contesting Intentional Anxieties"]

"Queering the Phallus," Disseminating Lacan. David Pettigrew and François Raffoul ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press,1996) pp.273-294.

"Nietzsche's Women," Journal of Nietzsche Studies. (Autumn,1996, Issue 12), pp.18-26.

"The Science Thing," From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J.. Babette E. Babich ed.( London, Kluwer Academic Publishers,1995) pp.567-578.

"From Husserl to Beauvoir: Gendering the Perceiving Subject," Metaphilosophy. vol.27. Nos 1&2 (January/ April 1996), pp.53-62.

"Contesting Intentional Anxieties," Phenomenology Past and Future. ( Pittsburgh:Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center,1996) pp.21-38.

"Out From Under: Beauvoir's Philosophy of the Erotic," Feminist Interpretations of Simone De Beauvoir. Margaret A. Simons, ed.(University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) pp.179-192.

"Coveting a Body of Knowledge: Science and the Desires of Truth," Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science. Babich, Bergoffen, and Glynn ed. (Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995), pp.139-152.

"Nietzsche Was No Feminist...," International Studies in Philosophy. vol. XXVI, no.3 (1994), pp. 23-31. [Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Nietzsche. Kelly Oliver, ed (University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)]

"Feminism, Women's Studies and the Media," Matrix. vol. 3, no. 1 (Fall 1993), pp. 1-3.

"Violence Against Women," So To Speak. vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 58-59.

"The Look as Bad Faith," Philosophy Today. vol. 36, no. 3/4 (Fall 1992), pp. 221-227.

"Being Philosophical about Sexual Harassment," Women and Language. vol. XV, no. 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 35-36.

"Casting Shadows: The Body in Descartes, Sartre, de Beauvoir and Lacan," Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française. vol. IV, no. 2-3 (1992), pp. 232-243.

"Toward a Feminist Ethics: First Steps," Simone de Beauvoir Studies. vol. 8 (1991), pp. 163-174.

"Posthumous Popularity: Reading Privileging, Politicizing Nietzsche," Soundings. vol. LXXIII, no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 31-60.

"Simone de Beauvoir: Cartesian Legacies," Simone de Beauvoir Studies. vol. 7 (1990), pp. 15-28.

"The Body Politic: Democratic Metaphors, Totalitarian Practices, Erotic Rebellions," Philosophy and Social Criticism. vol. 16, no. 2 (1990), pp. 109-126.

"Nietzsche's Madman: Perspectivism Without Nihilism," Nietzsche as Postmodernist. Clayton Koelb, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 57-71.

"The Task of Becoming a Subject: Lacan's Rereading of Freud," Reconsidering Psychology: Perspectives From Continental Philosophy. J. Faulconer and R.Williams, eds. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1990), pp. 210-233.

"On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Nietzsche for Women," The Question of the Other: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 77-89.

"Race and Ethnic Relations Among High School Youth: A Philosophical Perspective, International Journal of Group Tensions. vol. 18, no. 2 (September 1988), pp. 124-139.

"Seducing Historicism," International Studies in Philosophy. vol. XIX, no. 2 (1987), pp. 85-98.

"Sophocles' Antigone and Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents," American Imago. vol. 43, no. 2 (Summer 1986), pp. 151-167.

"Deterrence, Sovereignty and Technology," Philosophy in Context. vol. 15 (1985), pp. 53-62.

"Sartre: From Touch to Truth," Alaska Quarterly Review. vol. 3, no. 1 & 2 (Fall & Winter 1984), pp. 123-133.

"The Eternal Recurrence, Again," International Studies in Philosophy. vol. XV, no. 2 (1983), pp. 35-46.

"Why a Genealogy of Morals?" Man and World. vol. 16 (Fall 1983), pp. 129-138.

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Can Popular Criticism Be Critical?," The Journal of Popular Culture. vol. 16, no. 4 (Spring 1983), pp. 134-143.

"The Meaning of the Apocalyptic Sense of Time," Apocalyptic Visions in America. Lois Zamora, ed. (Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 1982), pp. 11-36.

"Sartre and the Myth of Natural Scarcity," The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1982), pp. 15-25.

"Cartesian Dialectics and the Autonomy of Reason," International Studies in Philosophy. Fall 1981, pp. 1-8.

"Freud's Philosophy," Philosophy Today. vol. 25, no. 2/4 (Summer 1981), pp. 157-165.

"The Moral Value of Philosophy," Journal of Moral Education. vol. 9, no. 2 (Winter 1980), pp. 122-129.

"Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea: Roquentin as Phenomenologist and Author," The Personalist. January 1979, pp. 43-52.

"Nietzsche's Socrates - Discussion and Review," Man and World. vol. 11, (Fall 1978), pp. 216-223.

"The Transcendence of the Ego: A Methodological Reading," Philosophy Today. Fall 1978, pp. 244-251.

"Cartesian Doubt as Methodology: Reflective Imagination and Philosophical Freedom," Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 1976, pp. 186-195.

"Reconciliation of the Greek Concepts of Time," Proceedings of the Annual Linguistic Conference. 1974.

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