Christine Battersby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Battersby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Battersby |
| SIGNATURE | BATTERSBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4834-1915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Simone de Beauvoir, stream of consciousness and philosophical fiction
This article locates Simone de Beauvoir in the stream of consciousness, metaphysical novel, and Bildungsroman writing traditions. Its focus is the two opening chapters from the 1938 draft of Beauvoir's first novel, She Came to Stay —first published in French in 1943 as L’Invitée —and deleted at the insistence of her publishers. Although Beauvoir's own philosophical fictions are, in general, linked to Hegel's phenomenology and to Sartre's existent…
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference
Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the ‘other’ in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical ‘f…
Singularity and the Female Self
This article investigates the question of the ‘forgetting’ of questions to do with embodied human differences—especially sexual difference—in the metaphysical systems and debates of western modernity. Taking its cue from Michel Foucault, it focuses on the question: How can we think the singular that falls outside the ‘universals’ of philosophy? The Nietzschean undertones of this question are explored, along with the major differences between Niet…
Women's Liberation and the Sublime
Flesh Questions
In Telling Bodies Performing Birth, Della Pollock has recorded and analysed contemporary North American birth stories, using interviews and her own memories of birth-giving to explore the narrative
Terror, terrorism and the sublime
(2003). Terror, terrorism and the sublime: Rethinking the sublime after 1789 and 2001. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-89
Learning to Think Intercontinentally
This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a re…
Learning to Think Intercontinentally
This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a re…
Philosophy
Gender and Genius
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, women were blamed for having too much passion, imagination, and sexual appetite. By the late eighteen century, however, these qualities had been valued and appropriate for male artists. As new and old concepts of woman and genius clashed, there evolved a rhetoric of sexual apartheid which today still affects our perceptions of cultural achievement.
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference
Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the ‘other’ in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical ‘f…
Flesh Questions
In Telling Bodies Performing Birth, Della Pollock has recorded and analysed contemporary North American birth stories, using interviews and her own memories of birth-giving to explore the narrative
Learning to Think Intercontinentally
This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a re…
Terror, terrorism and the sublime
(2003). Terror, terrorism and the sublime: Rethinking the sublime after 1789 and 2001. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-89
Gender and Genius
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, women were blamed for having too much passion, imagination, and sexual appetite. By the late eighteen century, however, these qualities had been valued and appropriate for male artists. As new and old concepts of woman and genius clashed, there evolved a rhetoric of sexual apartheid which today still affects our perceptions of cultural achievement.
Philosophy
Learning to Think Intercontinentally
This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a re…
Learning to Think Intercontinentally
This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a re…
Terror, terrorism and the sublime
(2003). Terror, terrorism and the sublime: Rethinking the sublime after 1789 and 2001. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-89
Flesh Questions
In Telling Bodies Performing Birth, Della Pollock has recorded and analysed contemporary North American birth stories, using interviews and her own memories of birth-giving to explore the narrative
Women's Liberation and the Sublime
Singularity and the Female Self
This article investigates the question of the ‘forgetting’ of questions to do with embodied human differences—especially sexual difference—in the metaphysical systems and debates of western modernity. Taking its cue from Michel Foucault, it focuses on the question: How can we think the singular that falls outside the ‘universals’ of philosophy? The Nietzschean undertones of this question are explored, along with the major differences between Niet…
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference
Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the ‘other’ in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical ‘f…
Simone de Beauvoir, stream of consciousness and philosophical fiction
This article locates Simone de Beauvoir in the stream of consciousness, metaphysical novel, and Bildungsroman writing traditions. Its focus is the two opening chapters from the 1938 draft of Beauvoir's first novel, She Came to Stay —first published in French in 1943 as L’Invitée —and deleted at the insistence of her publishers. Although Beauvoir's own philosophical fictions are, in general, linked to Hegel's phenomenology and to Sartre's existent…
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