Catherine F Botha
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine F Botha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine F |
| FAMILY NAME | Botha |
| SIGNATURE | BOTHA C F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics
Gender and Humanoid Robots: A Somaesthetic Analysis
I discuss in this paper how robotic scientists tend to produce replicas of human bodies that are consistent with their own cultural norms by exploring how gender is embodied in humanoid robots. My focus is specifically on care robots, and their reception in the African context. I argue that since the bodies of the robotic scientists are the reference points according to which they design and manufacture robots, a somaesthetics of robotics can bes…
Necro-being and the Black Body: An Interview with Leonard Harris
This chapter is a transcription of an interview of Leonard Harris on his ground-breaking work on necro-being by Catherine Botha
Reconsidering the will to power in Heidegger's ‘Nietzsche’
In this paper, I reconsider Martin Heidegger's well-known interpretation of the Nietzschean conception of the will to power that emerges during the 1930s and 40s, focusing specifically on his conception of the will to power as the principle that suspends (or to use Heidegger's word, ‘permanentises’) becoming. After revealing the difficulties that this reading presents, I provide my own tentative interpretation of the doctrine. Specifically, I arg…
En-visioning the dance: The audience as mirror
The current article is focused upon an exploration of the question of the nature of the art audience, with a specific emphasis on dance considered as a performing art. Five possible kinds of perceiver involved in the reception of dance as an art are discussed in order to demonstrate that the much criticized metaphor of the mirror can indeed function as a fruitful means to develop an understanding of how dance as an art is perceived, specifically …
Phenomenology and its Futures
Born in 1900–1901 with the publication of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations, phenomenology, as a critical method of reflection on consciousness and its cognitive achievements against its naturalisation in the natural sciences, has undergone many changes and developments. Critiques of both its methods and tasks have emerged, plus it has served as an inspiration for numerous thinkers, including Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre,…
From Destruktion to Deconstruction: A Response to Moran
As a response to Moran’s (1994) recommendation that Heidegger’s Destruktion be extensively elaborated and critiqued, this paper suggests a way in which Heidegger’s thinking can be more clearly understood as a search for how better to ‘say’ the destruction. By briefly tracing how Heidegger’s thinking on the Destruktion repeatedly turns against itself throughout his writings, it is demonstrated that Heidegger does indeed revise the notion by abando…
Reconsidering the will to power in Heidegger's ‘Nietzsche’
In this paper, I reconsider Martin Heidegger's well-known interpretation of the Nietzschean conception of the will to power that emerges during the 1930s and 40s, focusing specifically on his conception of the will to power as the principle that suspends (or to use Heidegger's word, ‘permanentises’) becoming. After revealing the difficulties that this reading presents, I provide my own tentative interpretation of the doctrine. Specifically, I arg…
From Destruktion to Deconstruction: A Response to Moran
As a response to Moran’s (1994) recommendation that Heidegger’s Destruktion be extensively elaborated and critiqued, this paper suggests a way in which Heidegger’s thinking can be more clearly understood as a search for how better to ‘say’ the destruction. By briefly tracing how Heidegger’s thinking on the Destruktion repeatedly turns against itself throughout his writings, it is demonstrated that Heidegger does indeed revise the notion by abando…
Phenomenology and its Futures
Born in 1900–1901 with the publication of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations, phenomenology, as a critical method of reflection on consciousness and its cognitive achievements against its naturalisation in the natural sciences, has undergone many changes and developments. Critiques of both its methods and tasks have emerged, plus it has served as an inspiration for numerous thinkers, including Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre,…
En-visioning the dance: The audience as mirror
The current article is focused upon an exploration of the question of the nature of the art audience, with a specific emphasis on dance considered as a performing art. Five possible kinds of perceiver involved in the reception of dance as an art are discussed in order to demonstrate that the much criticized metaphor of the mirror can indeed function as a fruitful means to develop an understanding of how dance as an art is perceived, specifically …
Reconsidering the will to power in Heidegger's ‘Nietzsche’
In this paper, I reconsider Martin Heidegger's well-known interpretation of the Nietzschean conception of the will to power that emerges during the 1930s and 40s, focusing specifically on his conception of the will to power as the principle that suspends (or to use Heidegger's word, ‘permanentises’) becoming. After revealing the difficulties that this reading presents, I provide my own tentative interpretation of the doctrine. Specifically, I arg…
Necro-being and the Black Body: An Interview with Leonard Harris
This chapter is a transcription of an interview of Leonard Harris on his ground-breaking work on necro-being by Catherine Botha
African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics
Gender and Humanoid Robots: A Somaesthetic Analysis
I discuss in this paper how robotic scientists tend to produce replicas of human bodies that are consistent with their own cultural norms by exploring how gender is embodied in humanoid robots. My focus is specifically on care robots, and their reception in the African context. I argue that since the bodies of the robotic scientists are the reference points according to which they design and manufacture robots, a somaesthetics of robotics can bes…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)