Tracie Matysik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1183854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracie Matysik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracie |
| FAMILY NAME | Matysik |
| SIGNATURE | MATYSIK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When Spinoza Met Marx
Responses to ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’
Writing the History of Spinozism
In this essay I reflect on Knox Peden's Spinoza contra Phenomenology, a history of French rationalist Spinozism in the mid-twentieth century. The book marks an important intervention in modern French and European intellectual history, depicting the importance of Baruch Spinoza's thought in the negotiation of and resistance to the phenomenology that captivated much of twentieth-century French intellectual life. With philosophical and historical so…
Hans Blumenberg's Multiple Modernities
This essay focuses on a little-known essay by Hans Blumenberg on self-preservation and inertia, which the author reads as a supplement to his more famous Legitimacy of the Modern Age. She maintains that the Spinozist emphasis in the supplement offers an open conception of reason, one that is to be found in Legitimacy but is not emphasized there. Using the more open concept found in the supplement to read Legitimacy anew, she is able to situate it…
Entries
Reforming the Moral Subject
Reforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe between 1890 and 1930. Tracie Matysik examines the works of German-speaking intellectuals and activists-moral philosophers, sociologists, legal theorists, pedagogy specialists, psychoanalysts, sexual liberationists, and others-who discovered in the language of ethics a means to revitalize the public sphere. Ethics reformers used the academic…
The Interests of Ethics
When Lou Andreas-Salome began her philosophically and psychoanalytically informed reflection on ethics, she had long been in personal and intellectual dialogue with women such as Ellen Key and Helene Stocker, women at the forefront of a European movement for a new social and sexual ethic. For both Stocker and Key, this new ethic coincided with a movement of sexual openness and liberation for men and women alike. It involved the renunciation of an…
Hans Blumenberg's Multiple Modernities
This essay focuses on a little-known essay by Hans Blumenberg on self-preservation and inertia, which the author reads as a supplement to his more famous Legitimacy of the Modern Age. She maintains that the Spinozist emphasis in the supplement offers an open conception of reason, one that is to be found in Legitimacy but is not emphasized there. Using the more open concept found in the supplement to read Legitimacy anew, she is able to situate it…
The Interests of Ethics
When Lou Andreas-Salome began her philosophically and psychoanalytically informed reflection on ethics, she had long been in personal and intellectual dialogue with women such as Ellen Key and Helene Stocker, women at the forefront of a European movement for a new social and sexual ethic. For both Stocker and Key, this new ethic coincided with a movement of sexual openness and liberation for men and women alike. It involved the renunciation of an…
Reforming the Moral Subject
Reforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe between 1890 and 1930. Tracie Matysik examines the works of German-speaking intellectuals and activists-moral philosophers, sociologists, legal theorists, pedagogy specialists, psychoanalysts, sexual liberationists, and others-who discovered in the language of ethics a means to revitalize the public sphere. Ethics reformers used the academic…
Entries
Hans Blumenberg's Multiple Modernities
This essay focuses on a little-known essay by Hans Blumenberg on self-preservation and inertia, which the author reads as a supplement to his more famous Legitimacy of the Modern Age. She maintains that the Spinozist emphasis in the supplement offers an open conception of reason, one that is to be found in Legitimacy but is not emphasized there. Using the more open concept found in the supplement to read Legitimacy anew, she is able to situate it…
Writing the History of Spinozism
In this essay I reflect on Knox Peden's Spinoza contra Phenomenology, a history of French rationalist Spinozism in the mid-twentieth century. The book marks an important intervention in modern French and European intellectual history, depicting the importance of Baruch Spinoza's thought in the negotiation of and resistance to the phenomenology that captivated much of twentieth-century French intellectual life. With philosophical and historical so…
When Spinoza Met Marx
Responses to ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Marxism and Critical Theory (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)