Faculty

Irene Harvey

Associate Professor of Philosphy
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education:
  • B.A., Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
  • M.A., York University, Toronto, Canada
  • Ph.D., York University, Toronto, Canada
Areas of Specialization:
  • Contemporary French Thought
  • Postmodernism
  • Contemporary European Philosophy
  • Feminist Theory
Recent Courses:
  • Ethics in the Community
  • Philosophy of Literature
  • Postmodernism
  • The Ethics of Tolstoy's War and Peace
Recent Publications:
  • Derrida and the Economy of Differance (Indiana, 1986)
  • Beyond the Towers - Philosophy and Service Learning (AAHE, 2000)
  • Labyrinths of Exemplarity - At the Limits of Deconstruction (SUNY Press, 2002)
  Current Projects:
  • I am currently working on a book tentatively entitled, 'Visions of Hunting - from Artemis to Faulkner.' This project includes the analysis of various meanings of 'hunting' from the Greeks (including Plato's Sophist and The Symposium) to contemporary literary incarnations. I am also interested in issues concerning 'evil' understood theologically, philosophically, politically and socially. In addition, I have an abiding interest in Holocaust issues and the politics of epistemologies.

 

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