Béatrice Han‐pile
Biographic Data
| ID | 2097068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Béatrice Han‐pile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Béatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Han‐pile |
| SIGNATURE | PILE B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2109-5016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Guises of Despair
For Bob Stern In Memoriam In a recent paper (2024), Bob Stern and I presented a defence of hope as a secular virtue. Part of this defence consisted in claiming that hope sits between two vices, unwarranted optimism and despair. As our focus was on hope, we did not subject our conception of despair to detailed scrutiny. In this paper, I seek to remedy this and to examine whether our previous defence of hope can hold up to this widening of the scop…
‘I suffered my deeds more than I acted them’
I reconfigure Hegel’s distinction between Tat (deed) and Handlung (action) to illuminate Oedipus’s enigmatic formula: ‘I suffered my deeds more than I acted them’. Most interpreters hold that Oedipus mistook his Tat for a Handlung and wrongly took responsibility for parricide and incest. I argue against the merely causal reading of Tat presupposed by this view that the tragic Tat also has an intentional structure. On the Restrictive Intentionalis…
‘The doing is everything’
Nietzsche's famous claim, ‘das Thun ist Alles’, is usually translated as ‘the deed is everything’. I argue that it is better rendered as ‘the doing is everything’. Accordingly, I propose a processual reading of agency in GM 1 13 which draws both on Nietzsche's reflections on grammar, and on the Greek middle voice, to displace the opposition between deeds and events, agents and patients by introducing the notion of middle-voiced ‘doings’. The rele…
Foucault, normativity and critique as a practice of the self
"Phenomenology and Anthropology in Foucault's "Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence
In this article, I examine the relation between phenomenology and anthropology by placing Foucault's first published piece, "Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence" in dialectical tension with The Order of Things. I argue that the early work, which so far hasn't received much critical attention, is of particular interest because, whereas OT is notoriously critical of anthropological confusions in general, and of "Man" as an empirico-tra…
Transcendental Aspects, Ontological Commitments, and Naturalistic Elements in Nietzsche’s Thought
Nietzsche’s views on knowledge have been interpreted in at least three incompatible ways—as transcendental, naturalistic, or proto-deconstructionist. While the first two share a commitment to the possibility of objective truth, the third reading denies this by highlighting Nietzsche’s claims about the necessarily falsifying character of human knowledge (his so-called ‘error theory’). This chapter examines the ways in which his work can be constru…
The “Death of Man”
This chapter contains sections titled: References
Nietzsche and Amor Fati
This paper identifies two central paradoxes threatening the notion of amor fati [love of fate]: it requires us to love a potentially repellent object (as fate entails significant negativity for us) and this, in the knowledge that our love will not modify our fate. Thus such love may seem impossible or pointless. I analyse the distinction between two different sorts of love ( eros and agape ) and the type of valuation they involve (in the first ca…
Nietzsche's Metaphysics in the Birth of Tragedy
It is often assumed that the main assertions of the Birth of Tragedy about the Apollonian, the Dionysian, and more generally the function of art, rest on an implicit core of Schopenhauerian metaphysics, which Nietzsche would later have criticised and rejected 1 .As stated by J. Young, there is "fairly wide agreement that the Birth incorporates without modification Schopenhauer's metaphysics" 2 (Young 2001: 26); according to him, the real core of …
Is early Foucault a historian? History, history and the analytic of finitude
This paper is an exploration of the theme of history in The Order of Things, with a view to clarifying the relation between history and philosophy in Foucault’s early work. I argue that Foucault introduces, beyond the Hegelian distinction between res gestae (past deeds) and historia rerum gestarum(the history of past deeds), a third meaning for the notion: History (capitalized) as our current historical a priori or épistémè, succeeding Order in t…
Nietzsche and Amor Fati
This paper identifies two central paradoxes threatening the notion of amor fati [love of fate]: it requires us to love a potentially repellent object (as fate entails significant negativity for us) and this, in the knowledge that our love will not modify our fate. Thus such love may seem impossible or pointless. I analyse the distinction between two different sorts of love ( eros and agape ) and the type of valuation they involve (in the first ca…
Is early Foucault a historian? History, history and the analytic of finitude
This paper is an exploration of the theme of history in The Order of Things, with a view to clarifying the relation between history and philosophy in Foucault’s early work. I argue that Foucault introduces, beyond the Hegelian distinction between res gestae (past deeds) and historia rerum gestarum(the history of past deeds), a third meaning for the notion: History (capitalized) as our current historical a priori or épistémè, succeeding Order in t…
"Phenomenology and Anthropology in Foucault's "Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence
In this article, I examine the relation between phenomenology and anthropology by placing Foucault's first published piece, "Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence" in dialectical tension with The Order of Things. I argue that the early work, which so far hasn't received much critical attention, is of particular interest because, whereas OT is notoriously critical of anthropological confusions in general, and of "Man" as an empirico-tra…
Is early Foucault a historian? History, history and the analytic of finitude
This paper is an exploration of the theme of history in The Order of Things, with a view to clarifying the relation between history and philosophy in Foucault’s early work. I argue that Foucault introduces, beyond the Hegelian distinction between res gestae (past deeds) and historia rerum gestarum(the history of past deeds), a third meaning for the notion: History (capitalized) as our current historical a priori or épistémè, succeeding Order in t…
Nietzsche's Metaphysics in the Birth of Tragedy
It is often assumed that the main assertions of the Birth of Tragedy about the Apollonian, the Dionysian, and more generally the function of art, rest on an implicit core of Schopenhauerian metaphysics, which Nietzsche would later have criticised and rejected 1 .As stated by J. Young, there is "fairly wide agreement that the Birth incorporates without modification Schopenhauer's metaphysics" 2 (Young 2001: 26); according to him, the real core of …
Nietzsche and Amor Fati
This paper identifies two central paradoxes threatening the notion of amor fati [love of fate]: it requires us to love a potentially repellent object (as fate entails significant negativity for us) and this, in the knowledge that our love will not modify our fate. Thus such love may seem impossible or pointless. I analyse the distinction between two different sorts of love ( eros and agape ) and the type of valuation they involve (in the first ca…
The “Death of Man”
This chapter contains sections titled: References
Transcendental Aspects, Ontological Commitments, and Naturalistic Elements in Nietzsche’s Thought
Nietzsche’s views on knowledge have been interpreted in at least three incompatible ways—as transcendental, naturalistic, or proto-deconstructionist. While the first two share a commitment to the possibility of objective truth, the third reading denies this by highlighting Nietzsche’s claims about the necessarily falsifying character of human knowledge (his so-called ‘error theory’). This chapter examines the ways in which his work can be constru…
Foucault, normativity and critique as a practice of the self
"Phenomenology and Anthropology in Foucault's "Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence
In this article, I examine the relation between phenomenology and anthropology by placing Foucault's first published piece, "Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence" in dialectical tension with The Order of Things. I argue that the early work, which so far hasn't received much critical attention, is of particular interest because, whereas OT is notoriously critical of anthropological confusions in general, and of "Man" as an empirico-tra…
‘The doing is everything’
Nietzsche's famous claim, ‘das Thun ist Alles’, is usually translated as ‘the deed is everything’. I argue that it is better rendered as ‘the doing is everything’. Accordingly, I propose a processual reading of agency in GM 1 13 which draws both on Nietzsche's reflections on grammar, and on the Greek middle voice, to displace the opposition between deeds and events, agents and patients by introducing the notion of middle-voiced ‘doings’. The rele…
Guises of Despair
For Bob Stern In Memoriam In a recent paper (2024), Bob Stern and I presented a defence of hope as a secular virtue. Part of this defence consisted in claiming that hope sits between two vices, unwarranted optimism and despair. As our focus was on hope, we did not subject our conception of despair to detailed scrutiny. In this paper, I seek to remedy this and to examine whether our previous defence of hope can hold up to this widening of the scop…
‘I suffered my deeds more than I acted them’
I reconfigure Hegel’s distinction between Tat (deed) and Handlung (action) to illuminate Oedipus’s enigmatic formula: ‘I suffered my deeds more than I acted them’. Most interpreters hold that Oedipus mistook his Tat for a Handlung and wrongly took responsibility for parricide and incest. I argue against the merely causal reading of Tat presupposed by this view that the tragic Tat also has an intentional structure. On the Restrictive Intentionalis…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Transcendental number (4 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works)