Simone Kotva
Biographic Data
| ID | 304500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Kotva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotva |
| SIGNATURE | KOTVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9783-0630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic: Indigenous Theology beyond Hierarchical Worldmaking, by Tore Johnsen
Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges, by S. Lily Mendoza and Georg Zachariah, eds
Initiation into Philosophy: An Introduction to Maine de Biran’s Freemasonry Speeches (c. 1810)
Maine de Biran (1766–1824) was one of the most influential philosophers in France during the nineteenth century, being the principal inspiration for French spiritualism and French reflexive philosophy. He was also a significant Freemason. This article offers a translation of Biran’s two surviving Freemasonry Speeches , delivered c. 1810, and an introduction to Biran’s Freemasonry from the perspective of his philosophical work. The introduction gi…
Practicing for Death in the Anthropocene
This article analyzes the theme of practicing for death as it has emerged in recent environmental discourse. In the first part, it situates Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (2015) in the context of new critical approaches to death and asceticism, especially Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (2013). In the second part, it offers an environmental reading of the “remembrance of death” as it appears i…
Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen , by Michael Marder (with Peter Schuback)
Cosmopolitical Spiritualities of Deep Time: Reading J.G. Ballard’s Mystical Impulse
This article considers J. G. Ballard’s account of deep time in The Drowned World (1962) from a religious perspective. I situate Ballard’s account of deep time in the context of Mircea Eliade’s influential work on the “Real Time” of ecstasy—a time in which humans recognize their indistinctness from the animal and undergo an experience of self-annihilation. But Eliade’s is not the only interpretation of ecstatic temporality that is relevant to Drow…
Rethinking Environmentalism and Apocalypse: Anamorphosis in The Book of Enoch and Climate Fiction
Biblical apocalypse has long been a source of contention in environmental criticism. Typically, ecocritical readings of Biblical apocalypse rely on a definition of the genre focused on eschatological themes related to species annihilation precipitated by the judgement of the world and the end of time. In this article, we offer an alternative engagement with Biblical apocalypse by drawing on Christopher Rowland and Jolyon Pruszinski's argument tha…
The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions
Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collège de France (1981–1984), together with the short texts, essays, and interviews from the same period, have sparked new interest in his work, allowing for a new understanding of his philosophical trajectory…
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy
Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort. As such, the historical juxtaposition of effort and grace grounding modern spiritual exercise can be seen as the essential tension between the secular and sacred
The God of Effort: Henri Bergson and the Stoicism of Modernity
Gilles Deleuze, Simone Weil and the Stoic Apprenticeship: Education as a Violent Training
In 1971, Ivan Illich wrote that school had become the world religion of a modernized proletariat. Without undoing the power of human interaction undergirding it, understanding how we learn is thus vital to undoing the institutional power of the West - of 'deschooling' society. Responding to the conflict between secular and religious schemes of education, the article investigates the ways in which the 'atheist' Gilles Deleuze and the 'mystic' Simo…
Gilles Deleuze, Simone Weil and the Stoic Apprenticeship: Education as a Violent Training
In 1971, Ivan Illich wrote that school had become the world religion of a modernized proletariat. Without undoing the power of human interaction undergirding it, understanding how we learn is thus vital to undoing the institutional power of the West - of 'deschooling' society. Responding to the conflict between secular and religious schemes of education, the article investigates the ways in which the 'atheist' Gilles Deleuze and the 'mystic' Simo…
Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges, by S. Lily Mendoza and Georg Zachariah, eds
Gilles Deleuze, Simone Weil and the Stoic Apprenticeship: Education as a Violent Training
In 1971, Ivan Illich wrote that school had become the world religion of a modernized proletariat. Without undoing the power of human interaction undergirding it, understanding how we learn is thus vital to undoing the institutional power of the West - of 'deschooling' society. Responding to the conflict between secular and religious schemes of education, the article investigates the ways in which the 'atheist' Gilles Deleuze and the 'mystic' Simo…
The God of Effort: Henri Bergson and the Stoicism of Modernity
The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions
Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collège de France (1981–1984), together with the short texts, essays, and interviews from the same period, have sparked new interest in his work, allowing for a new understanding of his philosophical trajectory…
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy
Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort. As such, the historical juxtaposition of effort and grace grounding modern spiritual exercise can be seen as the essential tension between the secular and sacred
Rethinking Environmentalism and Apocalypse: Anamorphosis in The Book of Enoch and Climate Fiction
Biblical apocalypse has long been a source of contention in environmental criticism. Typically, ecocritical readings of Biblical apocalypse rely on a definition of the genre focused on eschatological themes related to species annihilation precipitated by the judgement of the world and the end of time. In this article, we offer an alternative engagement with Biblical apocalypse by drawing on Christopher Rowland and Jolyon Pruszinski's argument tha…
Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen , by Michael Marder (with Peter Schuback)
Cosmopolitical Spiritualities of Deep Time: Reading J.G. Ballard’s Mystical Impulse
This article considers J. G. Ballard’s account of deep time in The Drowned World (1962) from a religious perspective. I situate Ballard’s account of deep time in the context of Mircea Eliade’s influential work on the “Real Time” of ecstasy—a time in which humans recognize their indistinctness from the animal and undergo an experience of self-annihilation. But Eliade’s is not the only interpretation of ecstatic temporality that is relevant to Drow…
Initiation into Philosophy: An Introduction to Maine de Biran’s Freemasonry Speeches (c. 1810)
Maine de Biran (1766–1824) was one of the most influential philosophers in France during the nineteenth century, being the principal inspiration for French spiritualism and French reflexive philosophy. He was also a significant Freemason. This article offers a translation of Biran’s two surviving Freemasonry Speeches , delivered c. 1810, and an introduction to Biran’s Freemasonry from the perspective of his philosophical work. The introduction gi…
Practicing for Death in the Anthropocene
This article analyzes the theme of practicing for death as it has emerged in recent environmental discourse. In the first part, it situates Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (2015) in the context of new critical approaches to death and asceticism, especially Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (2013). In the second part, it offers an environmental reading of the “remembrance of death” as it appears i…
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic: Indigenous Theology beyond Hierarchical Worldmaking, by Tore Johnsen
Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges, by S. Lily Mendoza and Georg Zachariah, eds
Philosophy (10 works) · Theology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)