Stephanie Glendinning
Biographic Data
| ID | 234908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Glendinning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Glendinning |
| SIGNATURE | GLENDINNING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2312-1839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Pair of Peasant Shoes
A paragraph in Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” which claims to discern the world of a peasant woman in a painting by Van Gogh has become notorious, especially following Derrida’s assessment of it as a “pathetic collapse” symptomatic of ideological-political investments. The article argues that the collapse occurs not in that famous paragraph but in the one that follows it. Close attention to this neglected paragraph reveals a collapse…
The Formation of European Studies
Academic studies of Europe in the postwar period increasingly focused on aspects of European integration. This development was led by contributions from the social sciences, not the humanities. The article explores a text first written in the 1950s and then revised in the 1960s which provides a strong rationale for the present focus and approach. The text in question is Denys Hay’s book Europe: The Emergence of an Idea, which argues that Europe’s…
The Origin of the Force of Law
Colonialism was 'legal'Legality is a construct of the powerful, not of justice.This more or less anonymous text, countersigned by thousands, attests to at least three theses.First, that there is a history of laws.Second, that the history of laws relates a history of power.Third, that might is not right.These theses together provide what is perhaps a fair if simple summary of the kind of thinking about law and justice that many legal theorists wou…
Emanations of Margery Allingham
Is it possible to conceive of a literary text not only as cryptic, but as actually transmitting a crypt? (Nicholas Royle)Margery Allingham’s last completed novel, The Mind Readers, was published by
Saving the Lost Ones
In an essay on the modern idea of political equality, Bernard Williams contrasts what he calls ‘the human point of view’ with a point of view marked by what he calls a ‘technical or professional attitude’. While the latter is concerned with conspicuous structures of someone’s life that might be by occupied by another, the former concerns an attitude towards a singular person, what Wittgenstein calls ‘an attitude towards a soul’ – an attitude char…
Existence in its Sexual Being
In 'Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference', Derrida develops a reading of Heidegger's 'neutral' term 'Dasein' that highlights its openness to a conception of sexual difference that is not yet binary. I explore this theme in relation to two further lines of thought. The first draws Heidegger's remarks on Dasein's factually concrete existence into correspondence with the European humanist tradition and the implications this reveals …
Europe
Europe is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political history, its economic history, its religious history, its literary and cultural history, and so on. Could there be a distinctively philosophical history of Europe? Not a history of philosophy in Europe, but a history of Europe that focuses on what, in its history and identity, ties it to philosophy. In the two volumes of Europe: A Philosoph…
Whose Language is it Anyway
A New Rootedness? Education in the Technological Age
This paper explores the challenges facing educators in a time when modern technology, and especially modern social technology, has an increasingly powerful hold on our lives. The educational challenge does not primarily concern questions concerning the use of technology in the classroom, or as part of the learning environment, but a changeover in the whole social environment that marks our time. Taking guidance from Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Dewey…
Derrida and the Philosophy of Law and Justice
Readings of Derrida’s work on law and justice have tended to stress the distinction between them. This stress is complicated by Derrida’s own claim that it is not ‘a true distinction’. In this essay I argue that ordinary experiences of the inadequacy of existing laws do indeed imply a claim about what would be more just, but that this claim only makes sense insofar as one can appeal to another more adequate law (whether the projection of a new la…
Nietzsche’s Europe
Like Kant a little over a hundred years earlier, Nietzsche saw the history of Europe as moving towards the formation of an integrated political union. Unlike Kant, however, Nietzsche does not see this development as an unambiguous good. Kant had supposed that European integration would belong to a history of constitutional improvements that would make war between what we would now call “democratic” states in Europe increasingly less likely. Nietz…
Varieties of Neoliberalism
The term "neoliberalism" is encountered everywhere today.In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a place-holder for "contemporary capitalism," "austerity politics," and "all that is bad in our world," giving that rhetoric the appearance of a new diagnostic edge.However, one could be excused for thinking that its intelligibility is in inverse proportion to its ubiquity.By defining it in terms of its conceptual relationship with cl…
Shaped by Shock
In this article we consider the impact of shock in hospital emergency departments where people seek urgent medical care and access hospital services. We define shock as an unexpected event or set of circumstances, for although emergency departments plan for uncertainty, shock moments are when protocols and procedures fail to meet operational demands. We reveal how, depending on the professional experience and personality of staff, shocks are expe…
The End of the World Designed with Men in Mind
According to Derrida, the European self-understanding marking the name "Man" is governed by eschatology and teleology. Man is that being on its way towards its proper end. The times of science seemed to Kant and others to be evidence of just such progress. For Freud, by contrast, the great scientific achievements of Copernicus, Darwin and Freud have cumulatively contributed a series of de-centring blows to our "self-love". This paper explores the…
'Europe, for Example'
Sentencing Derrida
Japheth's World
This essay explores what it means to say that we live today in “a secular age.” A distinction between two kinds of secularism is introduced and the proposal is made that the secularity that characterises our age belongs to a distinctively Graeco-Christian heritage. This proposal is elaborated and developed in the context of the Nietzschean pronouncement of the death of God and against the background of the decline in theodicial conceptions of his…
What is Phenomenology
Phenomenology is widely credited with being one of the major movements in twentieth-century philosophy. This article attempts to explain the ongoing strength of phenomenology as a force within the contemporary philosophy. It has two parts. The first part outlines the distinctive outlook of phenomenological philosophy. The second part explores a number of key theses that summarily characterise phenomenological inquiries as such. The aim is to prov…
Le plaisir de la lecture Reading the Other Animal
From European Philosophy to Philosophy of Europe
Thinking about (going to) the university
Focusing on the possibility of posing questions concerning the essence of the university, the discussion critically explores two traditional shibboleths: the idea of pure learning (the idea that a university education is to be valued not as a means to an end but an end in itself) and the idea of pure inquiry (the idea that research at a university is to be valued not as a means to an end but an end in itself). It is shown that even the most class…
From Animal Life to City Life
Perception and Hallucination
(1998). Perception and Hallucination: A new Approach to the Disjunctive Conception of Experience. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 314-319
From Animal Life to City Life
Derrida and the Philosophy of Law and Justice
Readings of Derrida’s work on law and justice have tended to stress the distinction between them. This stress is complicated by Derrida’s own claim that it is not ‘a true distinction’. In this essay I argue that ordinary experiences of the inadequacy of existing laws do indeed imply a claim about what would be more just, but that this claim only makes sense insofar as one can appeal to another more adequate law (whether the projection of a new la…
Japheth's World
This essay explores what it means to say that we live today in “a secular age.” A distinction between two kinds of secularism is introduced and the proposal is made that the secularity that characterises our age belongs to a distinctively Graeco-Christian heritage. This proposal is elaborated and developed in the context of the Nietzschean pronouncement of the death of God and against the background of the decline in theodicial conceptions of his…
Nietzsche’s Europe
Like Kant a little over a hundred years earlier, Nietzsche saw the history of Europe as moving towards the formation of an integrated political union. Unlike Kant, however, Nietzsche does not see this development as an unambiguous good. Kant had supposed that European integration would belong to a history of constitutional improvements that would make war between what we would now call “democratic” states in Europe increasingly less likely. Nietz…
Varieties of Neoliberalism
The term "neoliberalism" is encountered everywhere today.In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a place-holder for "contemporary capitalism," "austerity politics," and "all that is bad in our world," giving that rhetoric the appearance of a new diagnostic edge.However, one could be excused for thinking that its intelligibility is in inverse proportion to its ubiquity.By defining it in terms of its conceptual relationship with cl…
Perception and Hallucination
(1998). Perception and Hallucination: A new Approach to the Disjunctive Conception of Experience. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 314-319
From Animal Life to City Life
Thinking about (going to) the university
Focusing on the possibility of posing questions concerning the essence of the university, the discussion critically explores two traditional shibboleths: the idea of pure learning (the idea that a university education is to be valued not as a means to an end but an end in itself) and the idea of pure inquiry (the idea that research at a university is to be valued not as a means to an end but an end in itself). It is shown that even the most class…
Le plaisir de la lecture Reading the Other Animal
From European Philosophy to Philosophy of Europe
What is Phenomenology
Phenomenology is widely credited with being one of the major movements in twentieth-century philosophy. This article attempts to explain the ongoing strength of phenomenology as a force within the contemporary philosophy. It has two parts. The first part outlines the distinctive outlook of phenomenological philosophy. The second part explores a number of key theses that summarily characterise phenomenological inquiries as such. The aim is to prov…
Japheth's World
This essay explores what it means to say that we live today in “a secular age.” A distinction between two kinds of secularism is introduced and the proposal is made that the secularity that characterises our age belongs to a distinctively Graeco-Christian heritage. This proposal is elaborated and developed in the context of the Nietzschean pronouncement of the death of God and against the background of the decline in theodicial conceptions of his…
'Europe, for Example'
Sentencing Derrida
The End of the World Designed with Men in Mind
According to Derrida, the European self-understanding marking the name "Man" is governed by eschatology and teleology. Man is that being on its way towards its proper end. The times of science seemed to Kant and others to be evidence of just such progress. For Freud, by contrast, the great scientific achievements of Copernicus, Darwin and Freud have cumulatively contributed a series of de-centring blows to our "self-love". This paper explores the…
Shaped by Shock
In this article we consider the impact of shock in hospital emergency departments where people seek urgent medical care and access hospital services. We define shock as an unexpected event or set of circumstances, for although emergency departments plan for uncertainty, shock moments are when protocols and procedures fail to meet operational demands. We reveal how, depending on the professional experience and personality of staff, shocks are expe…
Varieties of Neoliberalism
The term "neoliberalism" is encountered everywhere today.In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a place-holder for "contemporary capitalism," "austerity politics," and "all that is bad in our world," giving that rhetoric the appearance of a new diagnostic edge.However, one could be excused for thinking that its intelligibility is in inverse proportion to its ubiquity.By defining it in terms of its conceptual relationship with cl…
Derrida and the Philosophy of Law and Justice
Readings of Derrida’s work on law and justice have tended to stress the distinction between them. This stress is complicated by Derrida’s own claim that it is not ‘a true distinction’. In this essay I argue that ordinary experiences of the inadequacy of existing laws do indeed imply a claim about what would be more just, but that this claim only makes sense insofar as one can appeal to another more adequate law (whether the projection of a new la…
Nietzsche’s Europe
Like Kant a little over a hundred years earlier, Nietzsche saw the history of Europe as moving towards the formation of an integrated political union. Unlike Kant, however, Nietzsche does not see this development as an unambiguous good. Kant had supposed that European integration would belong to a history of constitutional improvements that would make war between what we would now call “democratic” states in Europe increasingly less likely. Nietz…
A New Rootedness? Education in the Technological Age
This paper explores the challenges facing educators in a time when modern technology, and especially modern social technology, has an increasingly powerful hold on our lives. The educational challenge does not primarily concern questions concerning the use of technology in the classroom, or as part of the learning environment, but a changeover in the whole social environment that marks our time. Taking guidance from Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Dewey…
Whose Language is it Anyway
Europe
Europe is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political history, its economic history, its religious history, its literary and cultural history, and so on. Could there be a distinctively philosophical history of Europe? Not a history of philosophy in Europe, but a history of Europe that focuses on what, in its history and identity, ties it to philosophy. In the two volumes of Europe: A Philosoph…
Saving the Lost Ones
In an essay on the modern idea of political equality, Bernard Williams contrasts what he calls ‘the human point of view’ with a point of view marked by what he calls a ‘technical or professional attitude’. While the latter is concerned with conspicuous structures of someone’s life that might be by occupied by another, the former concerns an attitude towards a singular person, what Wittgenstein calls ‘an attitude towards a soul’ – an attitude char…
Existence in its Sexual Being
In 'Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference', Derrida develops a reading of Heidegger's 'neutral' term 'Dasein' that highlights its openness to a conception of sexual difference that is not yet binary. I explore this theme in relation to two further lines of thought. The first draws Heidegger's remarks on Dasein's factually concrete existence into correspondence with the European humanist tradition and the implications this reveals …
The Formation of European Studies
Academic studies of Europe in the postwar period increasingly focused on aspects of European integration. This development was led by contributions from the social sciences, not the humanities. The article explores a text first written in the 1950s and then revised in the 1960s which provides a strong rationale for the present focus and approach. The text in question is Denys Hay’s book Europe: The Emergence of an Idea, which argues that Europe’s…
The Origin of the Force of Law
Colonialism was 'legal'Legality is a construct of the powerful, not of justice.This more or less anonymous text, countersigned by thousands, attests to at least three theses.First, that there is a history of laws.Second, that the history of laws relates a history of power.Third, that might is not right.These theses together provide what is perhaps a fair if simple summary of the kind of thinking about law and justice that many legal theorists wou…
Emanations of Margery Allingham
Is it possible to conceive of a literary text not only as cryptic, but as actually transmitting a crypt? (Nicholas Royle)Margery Allingham’s last completed novel, The Mind Readers, was published by
A Pair of Peasant Shoes
A paragraph in Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” which claims to discern the world of a peasant woman in a painting by Van Gogh has become notorious, especially following Derrida’s assessment of it as a “pathetic collapse” symptomatic of ideological-political investments. The article argues that the collapse occurs not in that famous paragraph but in the one that follows it. Close attention to this neglected paragraph reveals a collapse…
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