Molly Farneth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molly Farneth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Molly |
| FAMILY NAME | Farneth |
| SIGNATURE | FARNETH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2344-220X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography
Will liberalism survive? Should it? There may be no philosopher more widely associated with these questions than Alasdair MacIntyre, and a new generation of antiliberals has claimed his mantle. It is an opportune moment, then, for the recent translation of Perreau-Saussine's intellectual biography, originally published in 2005. The author describes the book as “a way to outline the biography of a problem.” That problem is liberalism and its disco…
The Politics of Ritual
Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination
The wound and the opening
Joseph Winters's Hope Draped in Black insists on the ethical imperative of resisting closure. Drawing on examples from Black literary and artistic traditions, Winters describes an ethos of "melancholic hope" that dwells in loss while remaining vulnerable to others and an unknowable future: a wound and an opening. Winters is captivated by the repetitions and ruptures that frustrate easy assumptions about healing or progress. In these reflections o…
Constructivism in Ethics
One may hold that any one of several things related to morality and ethics is constructed, among them: normative truth itself, entitlement to one’s commitments to normative principles and judgments, and their semantic content. Metaethical constructivism, as it has been debated in moral philosophy, is largely concerned with the first of these. John Rawls’s Kantian constructivism explains moral truth in terms of what rational agents would legislate…
When God and State Don’t Dominate: Pragmatism, Political Theology, and Democratic Authority
Authority is a normative status – not just power but legitimate power. But what distinguishes legitimate and illegitimate power? Combining recent pragmatist work in the philosophy of language with a Hegelian view of power and recognitive relations, I develop a model of authority rooted in non-dominating democratic practices. The result is a pragmatist political theology that is Hegelian in inspiration and radically democratic in practice
Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
This book offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit . Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel's theory of knowledge, the book shows how his account of how we know rests on his account of how we ought to live. It argues that Hegel views conflict as an unavoidable part of living together, and that his social ethics involves relationships and social pract…
Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
Hegel’s Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit . Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel’s theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his account of how we know rests on his account of how we ought to live . Farneth argues that Hegel views conflict as an unavoidable part of living together, and that his social ethics involves relatio…
Feminist Jewish Thought as Postliberal Theology
This essay considers feminist Jewish thought as a contribution to postliberal theology, insofar as it shares postliberal theology's emphasis on the sociality of reason and of revelation. In particular, the essay focuses on the authority of halakhah, or Jewish law, in the work of Judith Plaskow, Rachel Adler, and Tamar Ross, and it highlights the way that each “goes social” in her account of that authority. Like other forms of postliberal theology…
Participation in what? A Response to Douglas Hedley
The Power to Empty Oneself: Hegel, Kenosis, and Intellectual Virtue
This article considers Hegel's idea of Entäußerung, or kenosis, as a model for an intellectual virtue that enables people to confront difference and disagreement without domination. According to Hegel, Entäußerung involves a refusal to use one's epistemic status – of being one among many reciprocally recognized loci of authority – as a basis for dominating others. The article considers the development of this idea in Hegel's work, addresses affin…
Hegel's Sacramental Politics: Confession, Forgiveness, and Absolute Spirit
Gender and the Ethical Given: Human and Divine Law in Hegel's Reading of the Antigone
G. W. F. H egel's discussion of the A ntigone in the P henomenology of S pirit has provoked ongoing debate about his views on gender. This essay offers an interpretation of H egel as condemning social arrangements that take the authoritativeness of identities and obligations to be natural or merely given. H egel criticizes the ancient G reeks' understanding of both the human law and the divine law; in so doing, he provides resources for a critiqu…
The Power to Empty Oneself: Hegel, Kenosis, and Intellectual Virtue
This article considers Hegel's idea of Entäußerung, or kenosis, as a model for an intellectual virtue that enables people to confront difference and disagreement without domination. According to Hegel, Entäußerung involves a refusal to use one's epistemic status – of being one among many reciprocally recognized loci of authority – as a basis for dominating others. The article considers the development of this idea in Hegel's work, addresses affin…
Gender and the Ethical Given: Human and Divine Law in Hegel's Reading of the Antigone
G. W. F. H egel's discussion of the A ntigone in the P henomenology of S pirit has provoked ongoing debate about his views on gender. This essay offers an interpretation of H egel as condemning social arrangements that take the authoritativeness of identities and obligations to be natural or merely given. H egel criticizes the ancient G reeks' understanding of both the human law and the divine law; in so doing, he provides resources for a critiqu…
Hegel's Sacramental Politics: Confession, Forgiveness, and Absolute Spirit
The Power to Empty Oneself: Hegel, Kenosis, and Intellectual Virtue
This article considers Hegel's idea of Entäußerung, or kenosis, as a model for an intellectual virtue that enables people to confront difference and disagreement without domination. According to Hegel, Entäußerung involves a refusal to use one's epistemic status – of being one among many reciprocally recognized loci of authority – as a basis for dominating others. The article considers the development of this idea in Hegel's work, addresses affin…
Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
This book offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit . Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel's theory of knowledge, the book shows how his account of how we know rests on his account of how we ought to live. It argues that Hegel views conflict as an unavoidable part of living together, and that his social ethics involves relationships and social pract…
Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
Hegel’s Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit . Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel’s theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his account of how we know rests on his account of how we ought to live . Farneth argues that Hegel views conflict as an unavoidable part of living together, and that his social ethics involves relatio…
Feminist Jewish Thought as Postliberal Theology
This essay considers feminist Jewish thought as a contribution to postliberal theology, insofar as it shares postliberal theology's emphasis on the sociality of reason and of revelation. In particular, the essay focuses on the authority of halakhah, or Jewish law, in the work of Judith Plaskow, Rachel Adler, and Tamar Ross, and it highlights the way that each “goes social” in her account of that authority. Like other forms of postliberal theology…
Participation in what? A Response to Douglas Hedley
Constructivism in Ethics
One may hold that any one of several things related to morality and ethics is constructed, among them: normative truth itself, entitlement to one’s commitments to normative principles and judgments, and their semantic content. Metaethical constructivism, as it has been debated in moral philosophy, is largely concerned with the first of these. John Rawls’s Kantian constructivism explains moral truth in terms of what rational agents would legislate…
When God and State Don’t Dominate: Pragmatism, Political Theology, and Democratic Authority
Authority is a normative status – not just power but legitimate power. But what distinguishes legitimate and illegitimate power? Combining recent pragmatist work in the philosophy of language with a Hegelian view of power and recognitive relations, I develop a model of authority rooted in non-dominating democratic practices. The result is a pragmatist political theology that is Hegelian in inspiration and radically democratic in practice
The wound and the opening
Joseph Winters's Hope Draped in Black insists on the ethical imperative of resisting closure. Drawing on examples from Black literary and artistic traditions, Winters describes an ethos of "melancholic hope" that dwells in loss while remaining vulnerable to others and an unknowable future: a wound and an opening. Winters is captivated by the repetitions and ruptures that frustrate easy assumptions about healing or progress. In these reflections o…
The Politics of Ritual
Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography
Will liberalism survive? Should it? There may be no philosopher more widely associated with these questions than Alasdair MacIntyre, and a new generation of antiliberals has claimed his mantle. It is an opportune moment, then, for the recent translation of Perreau-Saussine's intellectual biography, originally published in 2005. The author describes the book as “a way to outline the biography of a problem.” That problem is liberalism and its disco…
Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Hegelianism (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works)