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    Interspecies Ethics.Cynthia Willett - 2014 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism, Africana thought, and continental philosophy. Interspecies Ethics develops a communitarian model for multispecies ethics, rebalancing the overemphasis on competition in (...)
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    The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris.Cynthia Willett - 2018 - Cornell University Press.
    Cynthia Willett brings together diverse insights from social psychology, classical and contemporary literature, and legal and justice theory to redefine the basis of the moral and legal person. Feminists, communitarians, and postmodern thinkers have made clear that classical liberalism, with its emphasis on individual autonomy and excessive rationalism, is severely limited. Although she is sympathetic with the liberal view, Willett finds it necessary to go further. For her, attention to the social dimensions of the family and civil society is critical (...)
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    Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities.Cynthia Willett - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    In ____Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities__ which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for.
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    Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Comic Subversives Speak Truth.Cynthia Willett - 2019 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.
    A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. But what if laughter is a vital force to channel rage against patriarchy, Islamophobia, mass incarceration? To create moments of empathy and dialogue between #Black Lives Matter and the police? These and other such questions are at the heart of this powerful reassessment of humor. Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious offers a full-frontal approach to the very (...)
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    The Political Force of the Comedic.Julie Webber, Mehnaaz Momen, Jessyka Finley, Rebecca Krefting, Cynthia Willett & Julie Willett - 2021 - Contemporary Political Theory 20 (2):419-446.
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    Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom.Cynthia Willett - 2008 - Indiana University Press.
    Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of Empire, Cynthia Willett asks: What could embody liberation better than laughter? Why do the oppressed laugh? What vision does the comic world prescribe? For Willett, the comic trumps standard liberal accounts of freedom by drawing attention to bodies, affects, and intimate relationships, topics which are usually neglected by political (...)
  7. Going to Bed White and Waking Up Arab: On Xenophobia, Affect Theories of Laughter, and the Social Contagion of the Comic Stage.Cynthia Willett - 2014 - Critical Philosophy of Race 2 (1):84-105.
    Like lynching and other mass hysterias, xenophobia exemplifies a contagious, collective wave of energy and hedonic quality that can point toward a troubling unpredictability at the core of political and social systems. While earlier studies of mass hysteria and popular discourse assume that cooler heads (aka rational individuals with their logic) could and should regain control over those emotions that are deemed irrational, and that boundaries are assumed healthy only when intact, affect studies pose individuals as nodes of biosocial networks (...)
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    Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy.Anita Allen, Bernard Boxill, Joshua Cohen, R. M. Hare, Bill Lawson, Tommy Lott, Howard McGary, Julius Moravcsik, Laurence Thomas, William Uzgalis, Julie Ward, Bernard Williams & Cynthia Willett (eds.) - 1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This volume addresses a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. By considering the slave's critical appropriation of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced treatment. They address the question of what is wrong with slavery by critically examining, and in some cases endorsing, certain (...)
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    Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate.Cynthia Willett (ed.) - 1998 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly-commissioned essays brings together the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives.
  10. Ethical Life After Humanism.Hasana Sharp & Cynthia Willett - 2016 - In Hasana Sharp & Chloë Taylor (eds.), Feminist Philosophies of Life. Chicago: Mcgill-Queen's University Press. pp. 67-84.
    In this essay, we aim to ground an alliance between Cynthia Willett’s theory of an ethics of eros and Hasana Sharp’s argument for a politics of renaturalization. Both approaches seek a vocabulary and practices for ethical life, which is not circumscribed by the requirement of rationality and is deeply attentive to relationships. The relations to which an ethics of eros and renaturalization must attend include social relations – the tender ministrations of mothers, lovers, and friends that sustain and nourish (and (...)
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    Hegel, Antigone, and the Possibility of Ecstatic Dialogue.Cynthia Willett - 1990 - Philosophy and Literature 14 (2):268-283.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Cynthia Willett HEGEL, ANTIGONE, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ECSTATIC DIALOGUE In his lectures on aesthetics, Hegel argues that drama is the highest form of art. Only drama can resolve, or sublate (auflieben), an opposition between objective and subjective poles ofaesthetic experience.1 This opposition takes its penultimate form in the difference between epic and lyric poetry. Subjective feelings expressed in lyric and the objective representation ofevents in epic are sublated (...)
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    Three Questions for Moira Gatens and Spinoza.Cynthia Willett - 2019 - Philosophy Today 63 (3):773-780.
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  13. the Seriously erotic Politics of feminist laughter.Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett & Yael D. Sherman - 2012 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 79 (1):217-246.
  14. Ground zero for a post-moral ethics in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Julia Kristeva’s melancholic.Cynthia Willett - 2011 - Continental Philosophy Review 45 (1):1-22.
    Perhaps no other novel has received as much attention from moral philosophers as South African writer J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace . The novel is ethically compelling and yet no moral theory explains its force. Despite clear Kantian moments, neither rationalism nor self-respect can account for the strange ethical task that the protagonist sets for himself. Calling himself the dog man, like the ancient Cynics, this shamelessly cynical protagonist takes his cues for ethics not from humans but from animals. He does (...)
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  15. Affect Attunement in the Caregiver-Infant Relationship and Across Species: Expanding the Ethical Scope of Eros.Cynthia Willett - 2012 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2 (2):111-130.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Affect Attunement in the Caregiver-Infant Relationship and Across SpeciesExpanding the Ethical Scope of ErosCynthia WillettCompelling glimpses into the ethical capacities of our animal kin reveal new possibilities for ethical relationships encompassing humans with other animal species. Consider the remarkable report of a female bonobo in a British zoo who assists a bird found in her cage by retrieving the fallen bird, and spreading its wings so that this fellow (...)
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  16. Visionary Pragmatism and an Ethics of Connectivity: An Alternative to the Autonomy Tradition in Analytic Ethics.Cynthia Willett - 2012 - In Maurice Hamington Celia N. Bardwell Jones (ed.), Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism. Routledge. pp. 258-287.
    In an era of global interdependence, the concept of autonomy may no longer name our core moral need. Shifting friendships and enmities across political boundaries bear significant consequences for the individual. Perhaps social alliances and hostilities have always had an impact on the flourishing of individuals and communities. But globalization (especially as viewed through the technology of the information age) magnifies the impact of external forces on sovereign bodies. These forces remind individuals of the need to establish the right kind (...)
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  17. Family matters: Feminist concepts in african philosophy of culture (review).Cynthia Willett - 2006 - Hypatia 23 (3):pp. 224-226.
  18. The pyramid that the slaves built: A response to John Lachs.Cynthia Willett - 2001 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (3):184-189.
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    Introduction.Cynthia Willett, Anthony Steinbock & Lauren Guilmette - 2012 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2):79-85.
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  20. Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism.Keith Burgess-Jackson, Mark Owen Webb, Martha Chamallas, Cynthia Willett, Julie E. Maybee, Carol A. Moeller, Alisa L. Carse, Debra A. DeBruin & Linda A. Bell (eds.) - 2002 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Contrary to the popular belief that feminism has gained a foothold in the many disciplines of the academy, the essays collected in Theorizing Backlash argue that feminism is still actively resisted in mainstream academia. Contributors to this volume consider the professional, philosophical, and personal backlashes against feminist thought, and reflect upon their ramifications. The conclusion is that the disdain and irrational resentment of feminism, even in higher education, amounts to a backlash against progress.
     
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    Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in Conversation with Bruce Janz, Jessica Locke, and Cynthia Willett.Bruce B. Janz, Jessica Locke, Cynthia Willett & Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad - 2019 - Journal of World Philosophies 4 (2):124-153.
    Bruce Janz, Jessica Locke, and Cynthia Willett interact in this exchange with different aspects of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s book Human Being, Bodily Being. Through “constructive inter-cultural thinking”, they seek to engage with Ram-Prasad’s “lower-case p” phenomenology, which exemplifies “how to think otherwise about the nature and role of bodiliness in human experience”. This exchange, which includes Ram-Prasad’s reply to their interventions, pushes the reader to reflect more about different aspects of bodiliness.
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    Philosophical Thresholds.Leonard Lawler & Cynthia Willett - 2011 - Philosophy Today 55 (Supplement):5-7.
  23. Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory.Tamsin Lorraine, Robyn Ferrell, Kelly Oliver, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Frances Restuccia, E. Ann Kaplan, Catherine Peebles, Emily Zakin, Lisa Walsh & Cynthia Willett (eds.) - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection that specifically features the field of psychoanalytic social theory emerging in and between psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, and across the disciplines of philosophy, literary, film, and cultural studies. This collection of essays takes the psychoanalytic study of social oppression in some new directions by engaging—indeed, stirring up—unconscious fantasies and ethical tensions at the heart of social subjectivity.
     
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    Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture.Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett, Naomi Zack, Anne-Marie Schultz, Jennifer Ingle & Lenore Wright (eds.) - 2012 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    The eight essays contained in this book explore the portrayal of women, and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. They bring feminist voices to the conversation about gender and attests to the importance of feminist critique in what is sometimes claimed to be a post-feminist era.
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    Ethics for a Layered Self: Laughter, Reciprocity, Generosity, Home.Cynthia Willett - 2015 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5 (1):70-79.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics for a Layered SelfLaughter, Reciprocity, Generosity, HomeCynthia WillettI can imagine no better way to respond to these insightful readings than to turn the spotlight on the important books that Ann Murphy and Megan Craig have written on affect and ethics! Craig’s book, Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology, weaves radical empiricism into phenomenology as only a philosopher who is also an artist could. Her evocative queries on (...)
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    6 Engage the Enemy: Cavell, Comedies of Remarriage, and the Politics of Friendship.Cynthia Willett - 2008 - In Shannon Sullivan & Dennis J. Schmidt (eds.), Difficulties of ethical life. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 88-111.
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    False consciousness and moral objectivity in kansas.Cynthia Willett - 2008 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 22 (4):pp. 290-299.
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    Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture. By Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY, 2006.Cynthia Willett - 2008 - Hypatia 23 (3):224-226.
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    Overcoming habits of whiteliness: Reading Shannon Sullivan's revealing whiteness.Cynthia Willett - 2007 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 21 (3):pp. 210-217.
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    Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy.Cynthia Willett - 2009 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 23 (4):373-376.
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    Recenterings of Continental Philosophy.Cynthia Willett & Leonard Lawler - 2010 - Philosophy Today 54 (Supplement):3-4.
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    Response to Bill Martin and Andrew Cutrofello on Irony in the Age of Empire.Cynthia Willett - 2010 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24 (1):96-99.
    What a pleasure to have such subtle thinkers and scholars as Bill Martin and Andrew Cutrofello reflect on the relation of irony and comedy to politics and philosophy through their commentary on my new book. To set the tone, Martin begins with a koan, or a parody of one, “What if a tree told a joke in the woods and there was no one there to hear it?” He means, I believe, to sound a warning on the limits of irony (...)
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    The Comic in the Midst of Tragedy's Grief with Tig Notaro, Hannah Gadsby, and Others.Cynthia Willett & Julie Willett - 2020 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (4):535-546.
    ABSTRACT The function of the comic in the midst of tragedy is not clear. After all, is it simply comic relief that wounded nations, communities, or individuals seek? Tragedy has long been cast as memory and mourning while comedy offers for the masses a Nietzschean moment of joyful forgetting and for the Stoic mind a measure of transcendence from our grief. The latter view came into prominence for modern American culture with the nineteenth-century satirist Mark Twain, who wrote that “the (...)
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    The Ethical Heart of Existential Marxism.Cynthia Willett - 1999 - Radical Philosophy Review 2 (2):161-169.
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    Tropics of desire: Freud and Derrida.Cynthia Willett - 1992 - Research in Phenomenology 22 (1):138-151.
  36. Tropes of Orientation: Between Dialectic and Deconstruction.Cynthia J. Willett - 1988 - Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University
    The dissertation seeks to locate a post-Hegelian response to the question of orientation. Such a response would neither return to the "totalizing drive" of dialectic nor yield to the "nihilistic gestures" of deconstruction but would traverse and transfigure both modes of thought. Part 1 isolates non-dialectical tropes which implicitly orient crucial transitions in Hegel's Logic, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics. Textual analyses of these tropes suggest that dialectical movement depends paradoxically upon the systematic undoing of the Hegelian demand for total knowledge. Part (...)
     
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  37. The Sting of Shame: Ridicule, Rape, and Social Bonds.Cynthia Willett - 2017 - In Naomi Zack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race. New York, USA: Oxford University Press USA.
     
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    The Shadow of Hegel's Science of Logic.Cynthia Willett - 1990 - Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 10:85-92.
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    (1 other version)Water and Wing Give Wonder: Trans-Species Cosmopolitanism.Cynthia Willett - 2013 - Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 8 (2).
    An interspecies ethics flips the claim of human exceptionalism several times on its head. Here we consider not only our own species’s animality but also the sacred experiences discovered across a range of species. The essay begins with an excursion alongside wild baboons who, as witnessed by Barbara Smuts, display a sense of wonder before a river’s still pools of water. From there we travel up and down the vertical vector of spiritual experience. The disgusting and the ridiculous at the (...)
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    (1 other version)Book review: Joan Williams. Unbending gender: Why family and work conflict and what to do about it. oxford: Oxford university press, 2000. [REVIEW]Cynthia Willett - 2004 - Hypatia 19 (3):228-231.
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    Analyzing Oppression, by Ann Cudd. [REVIEW]Cynthia Willett - 2007 - Radical Philosophy Review 10 (1):91-96.
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    Cognition and Eros. [REVIEW]Cynthia Willett - 1991 - International Studies in Philosophy 23 (1):137-138.
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    Cornel West Matters. [REVIEW]Cynthia Willett - 2006 - Radical Philosophy Review 9 (1):93-96.