Christina Howells

Biographic Data

ID1043334
NAMEChristina Howells
GIVEN NAMESChristina
FAMILY NAMEHowells
SIGNATUREHOWELLS C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)

    Open AccessChristina HowellsARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2024

    In this article I shall explore the development of Michel Serres's understanding of the human parasite, starting from The Parasite (1980) and The Natural Contract (1990), through to Hominescence (2001). I shall consider whether the development that I trace marks a progression in the sophistication and complexity of his thought or if, on the contrary, it could be seen as marked in some ways by regressive features. I shall compare Serres's parasite…

  • Sartre and Sloterdijk

    Christina HowellsARTICLEAngelaki2021References: 1

    This essay explores the relationship between Sartre and Sloterdijk in the domain of ethics. The major Sloterdijkian imperative, “You must change your life,” is considered in its multiple aspects as an “unconditional instruction,” “the absolute imperative” and shown to exceed the Kantian options of hypothetical and categorical. Sloterdijk’s relations to Sartre are examined in the domains of human freedom, commitment, self-creation, practice, and h…

  • Estrangement in the Early Sartre

    Christina HowellsARTICLESocial research2018

    The article explores estrangement in the early Sartre via an analysis of Roquentin, protagonist of La Nausée (1938). It compares the nature of Roquentin's estrangement with that of Meursault in Camus's L'Etranger. It argues that Roquentin's estrangement can best be understood through a reading of Sartre's early works on emotion, imagination, and the transcendence of the ego

  • Jean-Luc Nancy and La Peau des images

    Open AccessChristina HowellsARTICLEBody & Society2018References: 2

    This article considers Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on the nude in painting and photography in the light of his aesthetics, his philosophy of the body and soul, and some of his other writings on portraiture. It explores Nancy's insistence on skin as the truth behind and beyond which no further meaning waits to be revealed: there are no hidden depths, no secret or sacred truths, nothing is concealed beneath the skin

  • Stiegler and Technics

    Christina Howells, Gerald Moore et al.BOOKStiegler and Technics2013

  • A Portrait of Death

    Christina HowellsARTICLEThe Senses and Society2013Cited by: 1

    This article explores the relationship between mortality and aesthetics in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, drawing particularly on his discussions of portraiture in photography and painting. It investigates the paradoxical link between representation and death, in so far as whatever is “captured” on paper is by the same token already past and never to be recovered. This is particularly evident in the case of the photograph, the essence of which is pr…

  • Mortal Subjects

    Open AccessChristina HowellsARTICLEParagraph2009

    This essay represents an initial attempt to understand the interrelationship of mortality and subjectivity, passion and death, as they are explored in the works of Sartre, Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. From the very first discussions of the passions by Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, passion has held a liminal position: manifested in both body and soul, it transgresses the boundaries of psyche and soma and is especially difficult to categoriz…

  • Dictionnaire Sartre

    Christina HowellsARTICLEFrench Studies2006

    Sous la direction de François Noudelmann et Gilles Philippe. Paris, Champion. 2004. 542 pp. Hb €70.00. This is a splendidly conceived, encyclopaedic dictionary. It is rich in detail, precise in philosophical definition, impressively wide-ranging, and entirely up-to-date. Its editors are at the forefront of a new generation of Sartre scholars, and they have been able to draw on the resources of colleagues in the international Groupe d'Études sartr…

  • The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy

    Christina HowellsARTICLEFrench Studies2006Cited by: 3

    Edited by John Protevi. Edinburgh University Press, 2005. xii+628 pp. Hb £70.00. Pb £25.00. The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy is a very welcome complement to the Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. The Dictionary contains quick, clear and cross-referenced orientations on particular terms, philosophers and theorists associated with the Continental tradition. And the entries are of widely differing length, ranging fro…

  • Panel Participants

    Open AccessJenny Edkins, Richard Beardsworth et al.ARTICLEMillennium Journal of International…2005

  • The Cambridge companion to Sartre

    Christina HowellsEDITORBOOKThe Cambridge companion to Sartre1992

  • Conclusion

    Open AccessChristina HowellsCHAPTERThe Cambridge companion to Sartre1992

    Autonomous, independent, spontaneous foundation of knowledge, understanding, feeling, imagination? Alienating, idealist, bourgeois humanist, phallogocentric delusion? Does the subject lie between these two polar opposite descriptions of it, does it span them and, like a Pascalian paradox, fill all the space between, or does it lie elsewhere entirely, perhaps in a Utopia? Is belief in the subject a necessary alienation, an alienation heureuse, a t…

  • Inscriptions

    Christina HowellsARTICLEJournal of the British Society…1989

  • Sartre

    Christina HowellsARTICLEJournal of the British Society…1985

  • Sartre and Derrida

    Christina HowellsARTICLEJournal of the British Society…1982Cited by: 1

    (1982). Sartre and Derrida: Qui perd gagne. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 26-34

  • Sartre's Theory of Literature

    Open AccessChristina HowellsBOOKSartre's Theory of Literature1979

    As an imaginative writer Sartre is fascinated by the role of imagination in the creative process. Moreover his critical, psychological and philosophical writings witness to a constant meditation on the function and status of the imaginary. This book, originally published in paperback in 1979 under the ISBN 978-0-900547-57-7, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme

  • Sartre and Freud

    Christina HowellsARTICLEFrench Studies1979

    Journal Article SARTRE AND FREUD Get access CHRISTINA HOWELLS CHRISTINA HOWELLS SWANLEY VILLAGE, KENT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2, April 1979, Pages 157–176, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXIII.2.157 Published: 01 April 1979

  • Sartre and the Commitment of Pure Art

    Christina Howells, Christina M HowellsARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1978

    Journal Article SARTRE AND THE COMMITMENT OF PURE ART Get access Christina M. Howells Christina M. Howells Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 18, Issue 2, SPRING 1978, Pages 172–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/18.2.172 Published: 01 February 1978