Karen Vintges
Biographic Data
| ID | 380700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Vintges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Vintges |
| SIGNATURE | VINTGES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5236-5672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feminismo versus neoliberalismo
Retornando à voz 'original' de Simone de Beauvoir, descobrimos que ela, assim como Fraser (2013), havia criticando um certo 'feminismo' neoliberal. Contudo, a abordagem de Beauvoir também capta a forma como o feminismo contemporâneo envolve um conjunto plural de práticas de liberdade, ao invés de um programa universal, como Fraser sugere
A New Dawn for the Second Sex
To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important breakthroughs have been achieved by and for women in law, politics, and economics. Today, however, we witness movements in the opposite direction, such as a masculinist political revival in different parts of the world, the sp…
Muslim women in the western media
This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood's The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes' Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, employ the later Foucault's ethical theory. By explaining the theoretical framework of the 'middle' Foucault (governmentality and agency) and the 'later' Foucault (ethics and agency) and then comparing Mahmood and Heyes' use of Foucault's w…
Freedom and spirituality
Spirituality is an idiosyncratic concept in the work of Foucault, which might best be characterized as an "intensity without a ‘spirit’". To understand Foucault's specific concept of spirituality, we have to take into account some basic themes of his oeuvre, especially of his later work, that is, his books, interviews and lectures since 1976. In this chapter I will first analyse the way in which Foucault uses the concept of spirituality in his ea…
“A Dream, Dreamed by Reason … Hollow Like All Dreams”
The recent claiming of Simone de Beauvoir's legacy by French feminists for a policy of assimilation of Muslim women to Western models of self and society reduces the complexity and richness of Beauvoir's views in inacceptable ways. This article explores to what extent a politics of difference that challenges the ideals and political strategies of abstract liberalism can be extracted from and legitimized by the philosophies of Simone de Beauvoir a…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
‘Must we burn Foucault?’ Ethics as art of living
The willingness of the executioners
This article criticizes the explanatory model of Daniel Goldhagen’s study Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Goldhagen’s argument of a German eliminationist anti-Semitism as the central cause of the Holocaust is refuted as amounting to an extreme methodological individualism. His more limited claim to have analysed the motivational cause of the Holocaust is criticized by comparing it with Hannah Arendt’s study on totalitarianism and a Foucauldian poi…
Simone de Beauvoir
For many, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has only historic significance. The aim of this article is to show on the contrary that Beauvoir's philosophy already contains all the elements of contemporary feminism—so much so that it can be taken as its paradigm. Beauvoir's ideas about the self are extremely relevant today. Feminist themes such as the logic of “equality and difference” and identity are interwoven in her thinking in ways that can …
Simone de Beauvoir
For many, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has only historic significance. The aim of this article is to show on the contrary that Beauvoir's philosophy already contains all the elements of contemporary feminism—so much so that it can be taken as its paradigm. Beauvoir's ideas about the self are extremely relevant today. Feminist themes such as the logic of “equality and difference” and identity are interwoven in her thinking in ways that can …
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Muslim women in the western media
This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood's The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes' Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, employ the later Foucault's ethical theory. By explaining the theoretical framework of the 'middle' Foucault (governmentality and agency) and the 'later' Foucault (ethics and agency) and then comparing Mahmood and Heyes' use of Foucault's w…
Simone de Beauvoir
For many, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has only historic significance. The aim of this article is to show on the contrary that Beauvoir's philosophy already contains all the elements of contemporary feminism—so much so that it can be taken as its paradigm. Beauvoir's ideas about the self are extremely relevant today. Feminist themes such as the logic of “equality and difference” and identity are interwoven in her thinking in ways that can …
Simone de Beauvoir
For many, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has only historic significance. The aim of this article is to show on the contrary that Beauvoir's philosophy already contains all the elements of contemporary feminism—so much so that it can be taken as its paradigm. Beauvoir's ideas about the self are extremely relevant today. Feminist themes such as the logic of “equality and difference” and identity are interwoven in her thinking in ways that can …
Simone de Beauvoir
For many, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has only historic significance. The aim of this article is to show on the contrary that Beauvoir's philosophy already contains all the elements of contemporary feminism—so much so that it can be taken as its paradigm. Beauvoir's ideas about the self are extremely relevant today. Feminist themes such as the logic of “equality and difference” and identity are interwoven in her thinking in ways that can …
The willingness of the executioners
This article criticizes the explanatory model of Daniel Goldhagen’s study Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Goldhagen’s argument of a German eliminationist anti-Semitism as the central cause of the Holocaust is refuted as amounting to an extreme methodological individualism. His more limited claim to have analysed the motivational cause of the Holocaust is criticized by comparing it with Hannah Arendt’s study on totalitarianism and a Foucauldian poi…
‘Must we burn Foucault?’ Ethics as art of living
Freedom and spirituality
Spirituality is an idiosyncratic concept in the work of Foucault, which might best be characterized as an "intensity without a ‘spirit’". To understand Foucault's specific concept of spirituality, we have to take into account some basic themes of his oeuvre, especially of his later work, that is, his books, interviews and lectures since 1976. In this chapter I will first analyse the way in which Foucault uses the concept of spirituality in his ea…
“A Dream, Dreamed by Reason … Hollow Like All Dreams”
The recent claiming of Simone de Beauvoir's legacy by French feminists for a policy of assimilation of Muslim women to Western models of self and society reduces the complexity and richness of Beauvoir's views in inacceptable ways. This article explores to what extent a politics of difference that challenges the ideals and political strategies of abstract liberalism can be extracted from and legitimized by the philosophies of Simone de Beauvoir a…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Muslim women in the western media
This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood's The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes' Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, employ the later Foucault's ethical theory. By explaining the theoretical framework of the 'middle' Foucault (governmentality and agency) and the 'later' Foucault (ethics and agency) and then comparing Mahmood and Heyes' use of Foucault's w…
A New Dawn for the Second Sex
To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important breakthroughs have been achieved by and for women in law, politics, and economics. Today, however, we witness movements in the opposite direction, such as a masculinist political revival in different parts of the world, the sp…
Feminismo versus neoliberalismo
Retornando à voz 'original' de Simone de Beauvoir, descobrimos que ela, assim como Fraser (2013), havia criticando um certo 'feminismo' neoliberal. Contudo, a abordagem de Beauvoir também capta a forma como o feminismo contemporâneo envolve um conjunto plural de práticas de liberdade, ao invés de um programa universal, como Fraser sugere
Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)