Stella Gaon
Biographic Data
| ID | 806479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stella Gaon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stella |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaon |
| SIGNATURE | GAON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1234-8322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
But Is It Critique: Response to Ewa Plonowska Ziarek and Geoffrey Bennington
The Displacement of the Political by the Libidinal in Global Libidinal Economy
Lies in the Time of Covid
How can one possibly explain 'people's propensity to believe lies', asks J. Hillis Miller? A 'scandal to cognition', he continues, is the difficulty in understanding why this propensity is so deeply rooted. How in the world can so many people be brought, for example, to vote against their own self-interest, to shoot themselves in the foot, so to speak? That seems an unfathomable mystery. (Miller 2016, 139) These questions, and the role of deconst…
The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique
Winner of the 2020 Symposium Book Award by the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Stella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis. Drawing on close readings of Freud and Laplanche, Gaon argues that Derridean deconstruction is driven by a normative investment in reason’s psychological force. Indeed, deconstruction is more f…
Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique
More than Life: Human Dignity and the Problem of Rights
This essay interrogates the concept of "dignity" underlying rights discourse in order to show that the extension of human rights to animals is both oxymoronic and counter-productive. Because dignity signifies the sovereign power to transcend life, human rights theory would be better served by what Jacques Derrida calls a "power" of "not-being-able
Why Must I: A Freudian Response to the Question of Ethical-Political Responsibility
Why Must I? A Freudian Response to the Question of Ethical-Political Responsibility Stella Gaon (bio) When Immanuel Kant first made the argument that moral values can be determined rationally on the basis of the pure use of (practical) reason, he clearly linked ethics to the same conception of reason on which modern epistemology depends. Not surprisingly, therefore, the contemporary insight that there is no universal subject whose “truth” can be …
Democracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community
"Democracy in Crisis" published on by Manchester University Press.
When was 9/11? Philosophy and the terror of futurity
This article offers a close reading of Derrida's response to the events of 11 September 2001, in the interview he conducted immediately afterwards with Giovanna Borradori in the text Philosophy in a Time of Terror (2003). I argue that this text is significantly different from previous philosophical responses to horrific political events (such as those by Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt) insofar as it invites us to contest radica…
From Communication to Mediation
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Communities in Question: Sociality and Solidarity in Nancy and Blanchot
In his early essays “Violence and Metaphysics” and “The Ends of Man”, Jacques Derrida evoked a “community of the question” when he called for a fundamental questioning of the being of the “we” in the West. This demand was later formulated by Jean‐Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue‐Labarthe as the philosophical interrogation of the political (le politique), in distinction from the question of politics (la politique). This essay begins by arguing that w…
Judging Justice: The strange responsibility of deconstruction
This paper demonstrates that when the concept of ethicalpolitical responsibility is taken in its modern sense as a decision or outcome based on the protocols of reason, responsibility is neither simply possible nor simply impossible. Paradoxically, it appeals to a demand that it cannot fulfil; responsibility is thus (im)possible. Moreover, insofar as a deconstructive demonstration of this aporia is itself a response to reason’s own demand, decons…
The Undecidable Grounds of Scientific Expertise: Science Education and the Limits of Intellectual Independence
Journal Article The Undecidable Grounds of Scientific Expertise: Science Education and the Limits of Intellectual Independence Get access Stella Gaon, Stella Gaon Correspondence: Stella Gaon and Stephen P. Norris, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, 7-104 Education Building North, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5 Stephen P. Norris Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, 7-104 Education Buildi…
Politicizing Deconstruction”: On Not Treating Specters of Marx
Pluralizing Universal “Man”: The Legacy of Transcendentalism and Teleology in Habermas's Discourse Ethics
The central claim of this article is that Habermas's program of discourse ethics fails to “detranscendentalize” the Enlightenment subject. On the contrary, tacit assumptions concerning a transcendental conception of reason and a subject that is teleologically predisposed toward its rightful end are the logical pillars of Habermas's two most crucial claims. First, unless Habermas presupposes an abstract and decidedly unencumbered moral discussant,…
Communities in Question: Sociality and Solidarity in Nancy and Blanchot
In his early essays “Violence and Metaphysics” and “The Ends of Man”, Jacques Derrida evoked a “community of the question” when he called for a fundamental questioning of the being of the “we” in the West. This demand was later formulated by Jean‐Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue‐Labarthe as the philosophical interrogation of the political (le politique), in distinction from the question of politics (la politique). This essay begins by arguing that w…
The Undecidable Grounds of Scientific Expertise: Science Education and the Limits of Intellectual Independence
Journal Article The Undecidable Grounds of Scientific Expertise: Science Education and the Limits of Intellectual Independence Get access Stella Gaon, Stella Gaon Correspondence: Stella Gaon and Stephen P. Norris, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, 7-104 Education Building North, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5 Stephen P. Norris Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, 7-104 Education Buildi…
The Displacement of the Political by the Libidinal in Global Libidinal Economy
Pluralizing Universal “Man”: The Legacy of Transcendentalism and Teleology in Habermas's Discourse Ethics
The central claim of this article is that Habermas's program of discourse ethics fails to “detranscendentalize” the Enlightenment subject. On the contrary, tacit assumptions concerning a transcendental conception of reason and a subject that is teleologically predisposed toward its rightful end are the logical pillars of Habermas's two most crucial claims. First, unless Habermas presupposes an abstract and decidedly unencumbered moral discussant,…
Pluralizing Universal “Man”: The Legacy of Transcendentalism and Teleology in Habermas's Discourse Ethics
The central claim of this article is that Habermas's program of discourse ethics fails to “detranscendentalize” the Enlightenment subject. On the contrary, tacit assumptions concerning a transcendental conception of reason and a subject that is teleologically predisposed toward its rightful end are the logical pillars of Habermas's two most crucial claims. First, unless Habermas presupposes an abstract and decidedly unencumbered moral discussant,…
Politicizing Deconstruction”: On Not Treating Specters of Marx
The Undecidable Grounds of Scientific Expertise: Science Education and the Limits of Intellectual Independence
Journal Article The Undecidable Grounds of Scientific Expertise: Science Education and the Limits of Intellectual Independence Get access Stella Gaon, Stella Gaon Correspondence: Stella Gaon and Stephen P. Norris, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, 7-104 Education Building North, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5 Stephen P. Norris Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, 7-104 Education Buildi…
Judging Justice: The strange responsibility of deconstruction
This paper demonstrates that when the concept of ethicalpolitical responsibility is taken in its modern sense as a decision or outcome based on the protocols of reason, responsibility is neither simply possible nor simply impossible. Paradoxically, it appeals to a demand that it cannot fulfil; responsibility is thus (im)possible. Moreover, insofar as a deconstructive demonstration of this aporia is itself a response to reason’s own demand, decons…
Communities in Question: Sociality and Solidarity in Nancy and Blanchot
In his early essays “Violence and Metaphysics” and “The Ends of Man”, Jacques Derrida evoked a “community of the question” when he called for a fundamental questioning of the being of the “we” in the West. This demand was later formulated by Jean‐Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue‐Labarthe as the philosophical interrogation of the political (le politique), in distinction from the question of politics (la politique). This essay begins by arguing that w…
From Communication to Mediation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
When was 9/11? Philosophy and the terror of futurity
This article offers a close reading of Derrida's response to the events of 11 September 2001, in the interview he conducted immediately afterwards with Giovanna Borradori in the text Philosophy in a Time of Terror (2003). I argue that this text is significantly different from previous philosophical responses to horrific political events (such as those by Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt) insofar as it invites us to contest radica…
Democracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community
"Democracy in Crisis" published on by Manchester University Press.
Why Must I: A Freudian Response to the Question of Ethical-Political Responsibility
Why Must I? A Freudian Response to the Question of Ethical-Political Responsibility Stella Gaon (bio) When Immanuel Kant first made the argument that moral values can be determined rationally on the basis of the pure use of (practical) reason, he clearly linked ethics to the same conception of reason on which modern epistemology depends. Not surprisingly, therefore, the contemporary insight that there is no universal subject whose “truth” can be …
More than Life: Human Dignity and the Problem of Rights
This essay interrogates the concept of "dignity" underlying rights discourse in order to show that the extension of human rights to animals is both oxymoronic and counter-productive. Because dignity signifies the sovereign power to transcend life, human rights theory would be better served by what Jacques Derrida calls a "power" of "not-being-able
The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique
Winner of the 2020 Symposium Book Award by the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Stella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis. Drawing on close readings of Freud and Laplanche, Gaon argues that Derridean deconstruction is driven by a normative investment in reason’s psychological force. Indeed, deconstruction is more f…
Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique
Lies in the Time of Covid
How can one possibly explain 'people's propensity to believe lies', asks J. Hillis Miller? A 'scandal to cognition', he continues, is the difficulty in understanding why this propensity is so deeply rooted. How in the world can so many people be brought, for example, to vote against their own self-interest, to shoot themselves in the foot, so to speak? That seems an unfathomable mystery. (Miller 2016, 139) These questions, and the role of deconst…
The Displacement of the Political by the Libidinal in Global Libidinal Economy
But Is It Critique: Response to Ewa Plonowska Ziarek and Geoffrey Bennington
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)