Kate Lawson
Contract Instructor
- King’s, Western University (BA), Western University (MA), Queen’s University (PhD).
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Kate鈥檚 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鈥檚 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
鈥淎rt and the Other: Aesthetic Intersubjectivity in Gadamer and Stein,鈥 Symposium Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2020), 74-91.
鈥淭he Ethical Imperative of Reincarnation in the Timaeus and the Bhagavad Gita,鈥 Symposia: The Journal of Religion, University of Toronto, 2019.
Book Chapters
鈥淎n Ethics of God鈥檚 Grace to Balance a Politics of Worldly Affliction: A Weilian Response to Roncalli on Arendt and the World鈥 in The politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations. Ed. Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingston. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.
鈥淓nacting Decreation,鈥 in Rethinking Responses to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil ed. Antonio Calcagno. Forthcoming.
鈥淒ecreation鈥 in Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil, ed. Lissa McCullough. Forthcoming.
鈥淥ne Hand Clapping: Anatheism and Contemporary Eastern Art鈥 in The Art of Anatheism: Essays on the work of Richard Kearney. Ed. Matthew Clemente and Richard Kearney. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.