Stefan Dolgert
Biographic Data
| ID | 4390099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Dolgert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dolgert |
| SIGNATURE | DOLGERT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8626-6966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Revolutionary power of becoming-animal: Achilles as posthumanist hero
Recent works in political theory (e.g., Nussbaum, Donaldson & Kymlicka) have stressed that animals should be considered as parties to the social contract, but while animal rights advocates have a rich theoretical repertoire on which to draw, their political achievements remain notably limited to date. In this essay, I argue for the utility of the concept of "becoming-animal" (Deleuze and Guattari) as a means of remedying this efficacy gap. I do s…
Public Things in the Age of Kleptonationalism: Honig's Democracy in Disrepair
Public Things in the Age of Kleptonationalism:Honig's Democracy in Disrepair Stefan Dolgert (bio) Bonnie Honig. Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017, 144 pp., $19.95, ISBN 9780823276417 Though Bonnie Honig's Public Things originated in a series of lectures in Australia in 2013, nothing could demonstrate the timeliness of this work more than this: In July 2018 the official in charge of Medicare and Medica…
The praise of ressentiment: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Donald Trump
American political discourse in the era of Tea Parties, Donald Trump, and ‘#BiackLivesMatter’ is suffused with Nietzschean ressentiment. Left critical theorist Wendy Brown’s ‘wounded attachments’ characterize civil rights protesters, multiculturalists, anti-tax activists, and Christian conservatives alike: all are grounded in an identity thoroughly constituted by foundational wounding, which then provides a continuing impulse to fixate on perceiv…
Thucydides, amended: Religion, narrative, and IR theory in the Peloponnesian Crisis
Most of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War comes from the text of Thucydides' History, yet IR scholars are strangely credulous when evaluating Thucydides' pronouncements. I explore what Thucydides does not tell us, and suggest that his text obscures important information regarding the outbreak of the war. Thucydides has a secular bias which leads him to discount the Spartan religious self-narrative, but by attending to this schema, in which S…
Sacrificing Justice: Suffering Animals, the Oresteia, and the Masks of Consent
Democratic theorists have increasingly turned to Aeschylus’ Oresteia as a resource for challenging the shortcomings of liberal theory, but I argue that this particular return to Greek tragedy should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism. Defenders of Aeschylean justice have underplayed the sacrificial aspects of his solution to the problem of civil strife, mistaking the consent of the Furies for a resolution that escapes the cycle of viole…
Species of Disability: Response to Arneil
What are the limits of care? How do the ethics of care relate to the idea of human dignity, and how might multiple foundations for dignity affect the construction of the boundaries of the ethical community? Does the call to love thy neighbor as thyself invite us to a more open-ended conception of the definition of neighbor, perhaps up to the inclusion of walruses, por poises, or spiders within its ambit? I was prompted to ask these questions afte…
The praise of ressentiment: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Donald Trump
American political discourse in the era of Tea Parties, Donald Trump, and ‘#BiackLivesMatter’ is suffused with Nietzschean ressentiment. Left critical theorist Wendy Brown’s ‘wounded attachments’ characterize civil rights protesters, multiculturalists, anti-tax activists, and Christian conservatives alike: all are grounded in an identity thoroughly constituted by foundational wounding, which then provides a continuing impulse to fixate on perceiv…
Sacrificing Justice: Suffering Animals, the Oresteia, and the Masks of Consent
Democratic theorists have increasingly turned to Aeschylus’ Oresteia as a resource for challenging the shortcomings of liberal theory, but I argue that this particular return to Greek tragedy should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism. Defenders of Aeschylean justice have underplayed the sacrificial aspects of his solution to the problem of civil strife, mistaking the consent of the Furies for a resolution that escapes the cycle of viole…
Species of Disability: Response to Arneil
What are the limits of care? How do the ethics of care relate to the idea of human dignity, and how might multiple foundations for dignity affect the construction of the boundaries of the ethical community? Does the call to love thy neighbor as thyself invite us to a more open-ended conception of the definition of neighbor, perhaps up to the inclusion of walruses, por poises, or spiders within its ambit? I was prompted to ask these questions afte…
Thucydides, amended: Religion, narrative, and IR theory in the Peloponnesian Crisis
Most of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War comes from the text of Thucydides' History, yet IR scholars are strangely credulous when evaluating Thucydides' pronouncements. I explore what Thucydides does not tell us, and suggest that his text obscures important information regarding the outbreak of the war. Thucydides has a secular bias which leads him to discount the Spartan religious self-narrative, but by attending to this schema, in which S…
Sacrificing Justice: Suffering Animals, the Oresteia, and the Masks of Consent
Democratic theorists have increasingly turned to Aeschylus’ Oresteia as a resource for challenging the shortcomings of liberal theory, but I argue that this particular return to Greek tragedy should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism. Defenders of Aeschylean justice have underplayed the sacrificial aspects of his solution to the problem of civil strife, mistaking the consent of the Furies for a resolution that escapes the cycle of viole…
The praise of ressentiment: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Donald Trump
American political discourse in the era of Tea Parties, Donald Trump, and ‘#BiackLivesMatter’ is suffused with Nietzschean ressentiment. Left critical theorist Wendy Brown’s ‘wounded attachments’ characterize civil rights protesters, multiculturalists, anti-tax activists, and Christian conservatives alike: all are grounded in an identity thoroughly constituted by foundational wounding, which then provides a continuing impulse to fixate on perceiv…
Public Things in the Age of Kleptonationalism: Honig's Democracy in Disrepair
Public Things in the Age of Kleptonationalism:Honig's Democracy in Disrepair Stefan Dolgert (bio) Bonnie Honig. Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017, 144 pp., $19.95, ISBN 9780823276417 Though Bonnie Honig's Public Things originated in a series of lectures in Australia in 2013, nothing could demonstrate the timeliness of this work more than this: In July 2018 the official in charge of Medicare and Medica…
The Revolutionary power of becoming-animal: Achilles as posthumanist hero
Recent works in political theory (e.g., Nussbaum, Donaldson & Kymlicka) have stressed that animals should be considered as parties to the social contract, but while animal rights advocates have a rich theoretical repertoire on which to draw, their political achievements remain notably limited to date. In this essay, I argue for the utility of the concept of "becoming-animal" (Deleuze and Guattari) as a means of remedying this efficacy gap. I do s…
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