Dr Rachel Jones
Contact Details
E-Mail: r.e.jones@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 384541
Room Location: 3.09, Tower Extension
Dr Rachel Jones is the Principal Investigator for the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network for the Arts and Humanities, Engendering Dialogue: Feminist Thought and Contemporary Debates in Art, Science, and Education.
Research Interests
Rachel is interested in the ways in which Kant’s transcendental approach to aesthetics, ethics, and the subject is transformed in the work of later European philosophers, including Nietzsche, Lyotard, Foucault and Irigaray.
Her research in this area is informed by her work in feminist philosophy, and has led to a particular interest in philosophies of the sublime from the eighteenth century to the present.
She has recently published a book on Irigaray, and is currently working on a series of articles exploring philosophy’s relation to birth and death through the work of Irigaray, Cavarero, Nancy and Lyotard. Her next project involves taking Kant’s essays on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as a provocation to thought around issues of ethics and alterity, materiality and the event, and the sublime and sexuate difference.
Teaching
Rachel’s current teaching includes courses on the Aesthetics of the Sublime; Gender, Feminism and Political Philosophy; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; Kant’s Groundwork; and Philosophy and Antigone. She also contributes to the Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices Honours degree and the Women, Culture and Society postgraduate programme.
Her approach to both teaching and research often involves exploring philosophical ideas through their intersection with works of art, film and literature.
Publications
Book
- Luce Irigaray: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy, Key Contemporary Thinkers (Cambridge: Polity, 2011)
Edited Volumes
- The Matter of Critique: Readings in Kant’s Philosophy, ed. with Andrea Rehberg (Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000)
- Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy, Special Issue of Hypatia, ed. with C. Battersby, C. Constable, & J. Purdom, Spring 2000
Selected Articles
- ‘Adventures in the Abyss: Kant, Irigaray and Earthquakes’, forthcoming, Symposium: Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy, Fall 2012.
- ‘Irigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics’, Hypatia, Vol 27 Issue 1, Winter 2012.
- ‘Making Matters’, On-line Catalogue for the exhibition Material Intelligence, ed. L. Fisher, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, June 2009; http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/mi_catalogue/index.html
- ‘Lyotard, Chadwick and The Logic of Dissimulation’, in Gender after Lyotard, ed. Margret Grebowicz (SUNY, 2007).
- ‘The Relational Ontologies of Cavarero and Battersby: Natality, Time and the Self”, in Alterity: Feminist Reflections in Ethics, ed. H. Fielding, G. Hiltmann, and D. Olkowski (Palgrave: 2007).
- ‘“You Kantian!”: Feminist Interpretations of Kant’, Women’s Philosophy Review, Issue 28, 2001-2, pp. 22–84.
- ‘Bodies of Resonance: Poetic Re-workings of Kantian Subjectivity’ in Sensual Reading (Bucknell University Press.2001).
- ‘Aesthetics in the Gaps: Subverting the Sublime for a Female Subject’ in Differential Aesthetics, ed. Nicola Foster and Penny Florence (Ashgate: 2000).
- ‘Crystalline Forms and the Matter of Aesthetics’, in The Matter of Critique, ed. R. Jones and A Rehberg (Clinamen Press: 2000).
- ‘Foucault’s Last Gesture: Untying Death and the Oeuvre’, in Dying Words: Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers, ed. M. Crowley (Rodopi Press: 2000).
Recent Talks
- Feminist Philosophy as a post-Kantian project: Irigaray's transformation of the transcendental, Feminist Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition, University of Helsinki, Finland, December 2011
- Re-reading Diotima: resources for a relational pedagogy, Women in Philosophy of Education Seminar, University of Edinburgh, September 2011
- Nocheinmal zurückkommen: Reading Köhler with Irigaray and Cavarero, An Odyssey for our time: Barbara Köhler’s Niemands Frau, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, September 2011
- Between Nancy and Cavarero: Birth, Death and the Singular Limits of the Political, Jean-Luc Nancy: Writing Upon the Limit, University of Dundee, May 2011
- Lyotard and Irigaray: Infancy, Birth and Metaphysics, Invited Speaker, Rewriting Lyotard, University of Alberta, Edmonton, February 2011
- In the absence of the archive: events in Lisbon and the construction of Enlightenment values, Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm, RSE funded conference, University of Dundee, December 2010
- Adventures in the Abyss: Kant, Irigaray and Difference, SPEP, 49th Annual Conference, Montreal, November 2010
- Thinking, Knowing, Wonder, Women in Philosophy of Education Seminar, University of Edinburgh, September 2010
- Kant, Irigaray and Earthquakes, Philosophy Research Seminar, DePaul University, November 2009
- Between Fractures and Folds: Battersby on Self and Other, Situated Selves: Phenomenology, Law and Aesthetics, University of Liverpool, October 2009
- On the Value of Not Knowing: Wonder, Beginning Again, and Letting Be, Exhibition Symposium,‘On Not Knowing’, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, June 2009
- Art Between Birth and Death Exhibition Symposium, ‘Life is Over’ (with artists Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen), University of Dundee, February 2009
- Luce Irigaray’s sexuate philosophy: Being as Two and Not Two, Society for European Philosophy, UCD, Dublin, September 2008
- Rethinking the Sublime with Luce Irigaray, Conference, Trauma and the Sublime, University of Swansea, August 2008
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