Jeta Mulaj
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeta Mulaj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulaj |
| SIGNATURE | MULAJ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Linen-Money-Bible”
Enrique Dussel’s The Theological Metaphors of Marx is based on the idea that beneath the surface of Karl Marx’s writings lies a hidden theology, one which forms the critical kernel of his oeuvre. G
World-Traveling to the Servants’ Quarters
This article focuses on the role of servants in María Lugones’ “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception.” I show that Lugones uses and erases the work of servants in developing her understanding of world-traveling. This theoretical marginalization and instrumentalization challenges her claim to capture concrete, lived experience. This article argues that Lugones’ theory is “pseudo-concrete”: it capitulates into the very abstraction…
Ontology as ideology
In the past decade, political philosophers have increasingly deployed the concepts of interdependency, equality, and vulnerability to critique contemporary society.1 Widely popular both within and beyond academia, these concepts offer normative anchors enabling the critique of neoliberal ideals of individuality, independence, and resilience in the name of a more egalitarian society. Consequently, although many scholars denounce violence in existi…
A Critique of Queer Phenomenology
This article critiques Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology in light of psychoanalytic theory of sexuality. I argue that there is a conspicuous absence of the unconscious, sexuality, and fantasy in Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. I turn to the work of Jean Laplanche both to address this absence and to argue for a theory of the formation of sexuality and gender that is not exhausted by the phenomenal world
‘Stabilising the Balkans’
This review essay discusses Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia . This volume, edited by Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks, critiques a reductive neoliberal narrative regarding the Balkans in relation to Western Europe by examining the disastrous consequences of the transition of post-socialist countries to capitalism. The volume provides a critical engagement with socialist Yugoslavia and an affirmation of the p…
Ontology as ideology
In the past decade, political philosophers have increasingly deployed the concepts of interdependency, equality, and vulnerability to critique contemporary society.1 Widely popular both within and beyond academia, these concepts offer normative anchors enabling the critique of neoliberal ideals of individuality, independence, and resilience in the name of a more egalitarian society. Consequently, although many scholars denounce violence in existi…
‘Stabilising the Balkans’
This review essay discusses Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia . This volume, edited by Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks, critiques a reductive neoliberal narrative regarding the Balkans in relation to Western Europe by examining the disastrous consequences of the transition of post-socialist countries to capitalism. The volume provides a critical engagement with socialist Yugoslavia and an affirmation of the p…
A Critique of Queer Phenomenology
This article critiques Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology in light of psychoanalytic theory of sexuality. I argue that there is a conspicuous absence of the unconscious, sexuality, and fantasy in Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. I turn to the work of Jean Laplanche both to address this absence and to argue for a theory of the formation of sexuality and gender that is not exhausted by the phenomenal world
Ontology as ideology
In the past decade, political philosophers have increasingly deployed the concepts of interdependency, equality, and vulnerability to critique contemporary society.1 Widely popular both within and beyond academia, these concepts offer normative anchors enabling the critique of neoliberal ideals of individuality, independence, and resilience in the name of a more egalitarian society. Consequently, although many scholars denounce violence in existi…
World-Traveling to the Servants’ Quarters
This article focuses on the role of servants in María Lugones’ “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception.” I show that Lugones uses and erases the work of servants in developing her understanding of world-traveling. This theoretical marginalization and instrumentalization challenges her claim to capture concrete, lived experience. This article argues that Lugones’ theory is “pseudo-concrete”: it capitulates into the very abstraction…
Linen-Money-Bible”
Enrique Dussel’s The Theological Metaphors of Marx is based on the idea that beneath the surface of Karl Marx’s writings lies a hidden theology, one which forms the critical kernel of his oeuvre. G
Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 work)