{"id":8035,"date":"2021-08-04T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/?post_type=cu_people&p=8035"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:22:31","slug":"kyla-bruff","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/people\/kyla-bruff\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyla Bruff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associate Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a specialist of 19th and 20th century German and French social and political philosophy. My current research focuses on the different concepts of nature, society, and their intertwining in 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> century German Philosophy, and their implications for questions of personal responsibility in the context of the climate crisis. I argue that the climate crisis cannot be adequately understood either as a crisis of knowledge or as merely the failure of international corporations to limit profit-seeking activities that contribute to emissions. It is also a crisis of subjectivity. More directly, I am interested in why individuals do not decide to live differently and make more ecologically-oriented choices, even when armed with the knowledge and means to do so. I draw on the work of F.W.J. Schelling and the Frankfurt School critical theory tradition, especially Adorno, to make this argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote my doctoral dissertation on F.W.J. Schelling\u2019s political philosophy\u2014the first standalone monograph on the topic in English. It is currently under contract with Edinburgh University Press. I have also published essays on Kant, Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to my research, I am committed to innovative, practical approaches to carrying out philosophy in public. My work in applied and social philosophy is particularly exemplified through my activities as Co-Director of the ecological NPO For A New Earth<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (FANE). <\/em>In this role, I have mobilized philosophy in the public sphere and contributed to policy debates in Newfoundland and Labrador, Sarapiqu\u00ed, Costa Rica, and Sitke Hungary. I am particularly passionate about local, grass-roots action addressing climate change and related ecological issues. FANE has accordingly hosted numerous public events on the ecological effects of specific industries and both government and private megaprojects. My op-ed articles and radio interviews have also addressed themes in feminism and other current political and ecological matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am an active translator from French and German into English. My published translations include the first appearance of Schelling\u2019s Late Political Philosophy: Lectures 22-24 of the Presentation of the Purely Rational Philosophy<\/em><\/a><\/strong> in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My other roles in bringing Schelling\u2019s work to contemporary audiences include serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Kabiri: The Official Journal of the North American Schelling Society<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, the Treasurer and Secretary of the North American Schelling Society<\/a><\/strong>, and Co-editor of the Palgrave Schelling Handbook<\/em><\/a>(now available).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n