Ewa Ziarek
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| Institutions | State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Notre Dame, University of Maine, Maquarie University, University of Tasmania |
Main interests | Feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory |
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is the Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at The State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo).[1] She has a major interest in engaging with other scholars on their own terms, and believes that a model of dissensus in philosophy, rather than the traditional consensus model, may produce highly valuable results.[2]
Research
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Ziarek is a feminist scholar of modernism and a feminist political theorist. She has published extensively in these areas (see publications section below), and her scholarly work has been translated into Italian, French, Polish, Rumanian, and Hebrew. She co-authored with Rosalyn Diprose Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Towards Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice (Edinburgh, 2019), which was awarded the Symposium: Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy Book Award.[3] Her other books include Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia, 2012); An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford, 2001); The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (1995); and numerous co-edited volumes, including Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (SUNY, 2010); Time for the Humanities (2008) and Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis (2005). Ziarek has also edited three volumes and contributed many book chapters, as well as publishing many peer-reviewed papers on far-ranging subjects.
All her interdisciplinary publications address ethical, artistic, and philosophical aspects of democratic theory and culture from feminist intersectional perspectives. Her current book project examines the impact of AI on participatory, inclusive democracy.[citation needed]
Publications
[edit]- Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Towards Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice. Co-authored with Rosalyn Diprose (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018)
- Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia UP, 2012)[4]
- An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford UP, 2001).
- The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (SUNY Press, 1995)
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Papers – Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
References
[edit]- ^ “Ewa Plonowska Ziarek.” University at Buffalo. https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/comparative-literature/faculty/faculty-directory/e-ziarek.html Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
- ^ Marder, Elissa. "Ewa Ziarek's Virtually Impossible Ethics.” Philosophy Today, vol. 54 (Supplement), 2010, pp. 51–58. doi:10.5840/philtoday201054Supplement47.
- ^ Best, William. "2019 Symposium Book Award Winner." Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, 17 Nov. 2019, www.c-scp.org/2019/11/17/2019-symposium-book-award-winner. Accessed 2 Nov. 2024.
- ^ For a review, see Renault-Steele, Summer. “Ewa Plonowska Ziarek: Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism.” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 1, Fall 2013, pp. 25-27. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/D03EBDAB-82D7-4B28-B897-C050FDC1ACB4/FeminismV13n1.pdf
- "Department of Comparative Literature". The College of Arts and Sciences. University at Buffalo. Retrieved 16 July 2015.