Jana Sawicki

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Chair of Philosophy and Morris Professor of Rhetoric

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Always available by appointment

Education

B.A. Sweet Briar College (1974)
M.A. Columbia University (1978)
Ph.D. Columbia University, Philosophy (1983)

Courses

PHIL 119(S)

Justice, Democracy and Freedom: Plato with Footnotes

PHIL 220 T

Happiness (not offered 2021/22)

PHIL 224 T

Marx, Nietzsche and Freud (not offered 2021/22)

PHIL 305

Existentialism and Phenomenology (not offered 2021/22)

PHIL 320 T(F)

Topics in Critical Theory: Subjection, Power, Freedom

PHIL 321 T / WGSS 322

Introduction to Critical Theory (not offered 2021/22)

PHIL 326 / WGSS 336

Foucault Now (not offered 2021/22)

PHIL 327 T / WGSS 327

Foucault on Power and Knowlege (not offered 2021/22)

PHIL 343 T(S)

What Philosophy Is: It's Methods, Aims and Values

PHIL 393 T

Nietzsche and His Legacy (not offered 2021/22)

Current Committees

  • Standing Grievance Panel

Selected Publications

Blackwell Companion to Foucault (eds.) Chris Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (forthcoming in 2010, Blackwell Press).
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body. New York: Routledge Press, 1991.

Articles and Contributions to Books

“Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasure?” Foucault and Philosophy(eds. Timothy O’Leary and Chris Falzon), Blackwell Press, forthcoming.

“Foucault’s Pleasures: Desexualizing Queer Politics” in Feminism and the Final Foucault (eds.) Taylor and Vintges (University of Illinois Press, 2004), 163-182.

“Queering Foucault and the Subject of Feminism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Michel Foucault, Updated and Revised Edition (ed.) Gary Gutting (Cambridge U. Press, 2005), 379-400.

“Foucault, Michel,” Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, ed. Alan Soble (Greenwood Press, 2006), 361-370.

“Le Feminism et Foucault en Amerique du Nord: Convergence, critique, possibilite” (trans. from English by Colette Pratt), in Aux risques de Foucault (Paris: Supplementaires, 1997), pp. 87-93.

“Feminism, Foucault, and “Subjects” of Power and Freedom,” in Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault. Ed. Susan Hekman. Penn State University Press, 1996. (Reprinted in The Late Foucault, ed. Jeremy Moss, Sage Press, 1998.)

“Foucault, Feminism and Questions of Identity,” in The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Ed. Gary Gutting. Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 286-313. (Trans. and reprinted as “Foucault, Feminismus und Identitaetsfragen,” Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie (4/1994): pp. 609-631.

“Feminism and Foucault: A Critical Reappraisal,” in Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate. Ed. Michael Kelly. Reprinted from Disciplining Foucault. MIT Press, 1994.

“Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies,” excerpt from Disciplining Foucault reprinted in Women’s Studies: A Reader. Ed. Stevi Jackson et. al. Harvester Press, 1993, pp. 394-396.

Fields of Interests

Recent Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Foucault, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Social and Political Philosophy