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Karen Vintges is a University Lecturer in Political and Social Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam . She has published Philosophy as Passion. The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 [originally in Dutch, 1992] ); Feminism and the Final Foucault (D.Taylor / K.Vintges, Eds., Illinois University Press, 2004); Women, Feminism and Fundamentalism. ( I. Dubel / K.Vintges, Eds., Amsterdam : SWP Publishers, 2007) and several other books in Dutch. She is coordinator of the NWO programme 'Women and islam: New Perspectives', and currently works on a project entitled Rewriting The Second Sex From a Global Perspective.
ONDERZOEK EN ONDERWIJS
Onderzoeksterreinen: contemporaine sociale en politieke filosofie, geschiedenis van de sociale en politieke filosofie, filosofie van de sociale wetenschappen, kritische theorie, cultural studies, multiculturalisme, vrouwen en islam. Zwaartepunten van onderzoek: processen van maatschappelijke cohesie en verandering; de emancipatie van onderdrukte of gemarginaliseerde groepen, multiculturalisme en feminisme. Het onderwijs weerspiegelt genoemde onderzoeksinteresses. Cursussen: geschiedenis van het politieke denken; kritische (maatschappij)theorie; ‘The Politics of Difference’; The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir; de late Foucault; multiculturalisme en feminisme; women and Islam.
Some representative publications
For some representative publications see my website http://www.karenvintges.nl/
http://www.karenvintges.nl/
last publication
B. van Leeuwen & K. Vintges, ‘”A dream dreamed by reason… hollow like all dreams”: French existentialism and its Critique of Abstract Liberalism.’ Hypatia, 25, 3, Summer 2010, 653-674.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
I. BOOKS
I. Dubel and K. Vintges (Eds.), Women, Feminism and Fundamentalism. Amsterdam : SWP Publishers, 2007, 160 pp.
Taylor, D. and K. Vintges (Eds.). 2004. Feminism and the Final Foucault. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 303 pp.
Vintges, K. 2003. De terugkeer van het engagement. Amsterdam, Boom, 121 pp. (over de politieke filosofie van de late Foucault)
Koetsier, T, K. Vintges, H. Schwab (Red.). 2001. Word ik van filosofie een beter mens? Budel: Uitgeverij Damon,164 pp.
Vintges, K . 1998. Filosofia os pathos. Athene: Filistor, 294 pp.
Pott, H. J., V. Vasterling, R. van de Vall, K. Vintges (Red.). 199. Liber amicarum. Over kunst, literatuur en filosofie. Amsterdam: Boom, 199 pp.
Vintges, K. 1996. Philosophy as Passion. The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 202 pp.
Vintges, K. 1992. Filosofie als passie. Het denken van Simone de Beauvoir. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 256 pp.
II. FORTHCOMING:
‘Introduction to the Short Feminist Texts from the Fifties and Sixties.’ In: M. Simons, (Ed.), The Beauvoir Series, Volume VI: Feminism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
‘Surpassing Liberal Feminism: Beauvoir’s Legacy in Global Perspective.’ In M. Lascano and E.O’Neill, Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought. Springer Verlag, forthcoming 2010
‘The concept Spirituality in the work of Michel Foucault. In: D.Taylor (Ed.), Michel Foucault: Key Concepts. Acumen Press. Forthcoming 2010.
III. PUBLICATIONS 2000-2010 (selection)
B. van Leeuwen & K. Vintges, ‘”A dream dreamed by reason… hollow like all dreams”: French existentialism and its Critique of Abstract Liberalism.’ Hypatia, summer 2010, 653-674.
K. Vintges & F. Kaulingfreks (Red.), Nieuw engagement, themanummer van het Tijdschrift voor Humanistiek / Journal for Humanistics, 10,37 april 2009, 96 pp.
K. Vintges, ‘Is het feminisme een kolonialisme? De erfenis van Simone de Beauvoir.’ Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 2009, 12,1, 67-72.
B. van Leeuwen & K. Vintges, ‘L’existentialisme français d’un pointde vue multiculturel: Une politique de la différence dans les philosophies de Simone de Beauvoir et de Jean-Paul Sartre.’ In: Th. Stauder (éd.), Simone de Beauvoir cent ans après sa naissance. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 435-455.
K. Vintges ‘Vrijheid in verbondenheid: het actuele denken van Simone de Beauvoir’. In: J. Hermsen (red.), AllesWelbeschouwd. Kampen: UitgeverijKlement, 2008, 33-59.
‘Oude heiligenlevens in nieuw perspectief. Overdenkingen bij het lezen van de Vita Sancti Adalberti.’ In: J. Vis (red.), Het klooster Egmond: hortus conclusus. Egmondse Studies deel V. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2008, 321-329.
‘The Life of Rabia al Adawiyya: Reflections on Feminism and Fundamentalism.’ In: Vintges, K. & I. Dubel (Eds.), Women, Feminism and Fundamentalism. Amsterdam : SWP Publishers, 2007, 53-60. http://dare.uva.nl/record/360950
‘Feminisme en Islam: over contexten en concepten.’ Filosofie en praktijk. 2006, 27, 1, 6-13.
‘Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Thinker for the Twenty-first Century.’ In: M. Simons (Ed.), The Philosophy ofSimone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, 214-227.
‘The Return of Commitment: Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins Revisited.’ In: Shannon Mussett and S. Scholz, (Eds.), The Contradictions of Freedom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, 105-118.
‘Some Hypes and Some Hope: Women and Islam in the Western Media.’ Concilium, ‘Islam and Enlightenment,’2005, 5, 41-48. Published in German in: Concilium, ‘Islam und Aufklärung: neue Fragen’ (‘Zwischen Medienrummel und Hoffnung:Frauen und Islam in den westlichen Medien.’), 2005, 5, 499-506. Published in Italian, in: Concilium, ‘Islam e Illumisnismo: nuove questioni.’ (‘Donne e Islam nei media occidentali.’), 2005, 5, [736] 52-[746]62.Also published in Spanish and Portuguese translations, In Concilium 2005, 5. (December 2005.)
‘Vijf slogans voor het nieuwe engagement.’ Filosofie Magazine. 13, 1, februari 2004, 44- 49. http://dare.uva.nl/record/360971 - zie ook http://dare.uva.nl/record/360935
‘Introduction to “Jean-Paul Sartre [1945].”’ In: Margaret Simons, (Ed.), Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings. The Beauvoir Series, Volume I.Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004,221-228.
‘Endorsing Practices of Freedom. Feminism in a Global Perspective.’ In: Dianna Taylor, Karen Vintges (Eds.), Feminism and the Final Foucault. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004, 275-299.
‘Beauvoir’s Autobiography: “Auto-fiction” or Selftechnique ? In: Yvanka Raynova and Susanne Moser (Hrsg.), Simone de Beauvoir: 50 Jahre nach dem Anderen Geslecht. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, 2004, 203-211.
‘La réponse adéquate de Beauvoir à la question “Qui sommes-nous aujourd’hui?”’ In : C. Delphi et S. Chaperon (Ed.), Cinquantenaire du Deuxième sexe. Paris: Éditions Syllepse,2002, 152-157.
”Must we burn Foucault?” Ethics as Art of Living: Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault.’ Continental Philosophy Review, 2001, 34, 2, 165-181. http://dare.uva.nl/record/94669
K. Vintges & E. Tjong Tjin Tai. 2000. ‘The Willingness of the Executioners. A Foucauldian Critique of Goldhagen.’ European Journal of Cultural Studies, 3, 2 ,147-172. http://dare.uva.nl/record/85311
IV. PAPERS 2000-2010 (selection)
‘Hypes and Hopes: Women and Islam in the Western media.’ Paper for the conference Multiculturalisme et démocratie dans le monde Musulman, 2-5 juli 2009, Université de Fes, Maroc.
‘New media strategies of Muslim women and their importance for Western democracy.’ Paper for the VISOR conference on Democracy, Culture, and Religion. Visor: VU Instituteforthe Study of Religion, Culture and Society, VU Amsterdam 25-8-2009.
‘Surpassing liberal feminism. In honour of Eva Lundgren Gothlin.’ Paper for the Symposium The Philosophical Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, at the 2008 APA (American Philosophical Association) Central Division meeting, Chicago April 19, 2008.
Workshop Presentation with Prof. Dianna Taylor: ‘Feminists Engage the Present:Islam, 9/11 and the Final Foucault’ , 5th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Paris, 19-07-2007.
‘The Final Foucault's “Oriental Subtext” and the Emerging Discourse of Islamic Feminism.’ Conference in honorof the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, “The Body: Ethos and Ethics.” The New School,New York, 05-19-2006 t/m 08-10-2006.
‘The Proto-Egaliarian Life of Rab’ia al-Adawiyya’, Conference of the IAPH (Internatinal Association of Women Philosophers) Rome, 31-08-2006 t/m 03-09-2006.
‘Het leven van Rab’ia al-Adawiyya.’ Lezing ter gelegenheid van de opening van het academisch jaar, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit vanAmsterdam, 07-09-2006
Discussant bij het panel ‘Gender, Islam and European Multiculturalism’, The European Social Science History Conference, RAI building in Amsterdam. With Jytte Klausen, Judith Vichniac, Sonya van Wichelen en Frances Gouda, 24-03-2006.
'Feminism, Islam and Modernity.’ Discussiebijdrage in reactie op de lezing van Prof. Nasr AbuZayd: ‘Islam, Muslims and the West: the Entrapped and the Entrapper.’ Conferentie Critical Theory Today: Perspectives and Practices. Universiteit voor Humanistiek, 29 januari 2004.
‘Endorsing PracticesofFreedom: Feminism in A Global Perspective.’ Plenary Session: Difference and Politics, XV World Congress of Sociology in Brisbane, Australië, 10 juli 2002.
‘Feminism and the Final Foucault.’Lezing in kadervan conferentie van de International Associationof Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus Universiteit, 6 juni 2002.
‘"Must we Burn Foucault?" Ethics as Art of Living: Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir.’ Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Penn State, USA, October 5 th 2000.
‘Beauvoir’s Adequate Answer to the Question Who We Are Today.’ Le Cinquantenaire du ‘deuxièmesexe’. Colloque International sous le haut patronage de L’UNESCO et du Ministère de la Culture, Parijs, 17-23 januari 1999.
‘The Relevance of Beauvoir’s Philosophy Today.’ Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 10-16,1998.
‘Princess Diana and the subject of Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’. Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Boston, August 6-10, 1998.