Kate Lawson
Contract Instructor
| Degrees: | King's, Western University (BA), Western University (MA), Queen's University (PhD). |
| Email: | katelawson3@cunet.carleton.ca |
Office Hours: E-mail for appointment
Kate’s work focuses on ethics and continental philosophy. Her research interests include social and political thought, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, and ecological ethics. As a lecturer, Kate seeks to bring together rigorous scholarship in the history of philosophy, exploration of burgeoning thinkers, and passionate engagement with how philosophical ideas are relevant to student’s lives.
Publications:
Books
Decreation for The Anthropocene: Simone Weil and Environmental Ethics. Taylor and Francis Routledge Environmental Humanities Series. Forthcoming.
Editor and Introduction to The Politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.
Editor and Introduction to Breached Horizons: Essays on the Work of Jean Luc Marion. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Art and the Other: Aesthetic Intersubjectivity in Gadamer and Stein,” Symposium Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2020), 74-91.
“The Ethical Imperative of Reincarnation in the Timaeus and the Bhagavad Gita,” Symposia: The Journal of Religion, University of Toronto, 2019. https://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/article/view/29347
Book Chapters
“An Ethics of God’s Grace to Balance a Politics of Worldly Affliction: A Weilian Response to Roncalli on Arendt and the World” in The politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations. Ed. Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingston. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.
“Enacting Decreation,” in Rethinking Responses to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil ed. Antonio Calcagno. Forthcoming.
“Decreation” in Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil, ed. Lissa McCullough. Forthcoming.
“One Hand Clapping: Anatheism and Contemporary Eastern Art” in The Art of Anatheism: Essays on the work of Richard Kearney. Ed. Matthew Clemente and Richard Kearney. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.