{"id":10242,"date":"2023-08-21T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=10242"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:08:22","slug":"kate-lawson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/people\/kate-lawson\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Office Hours: <\/strong>E-mail for appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Kate\u2019s 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\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Publications:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Decreation for The Anthropocene: Simone Weil and Environmental Ethics<\/em>. Taylor and Francis Routledge Environmental Humanities Series. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Editor and Introduction to <em>The Politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations<\/em>. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Editor and Introduction to <em>Breached Horizons: Essays on the Work of Jean Luc Marion<\/em>. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Peer Reviewed Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cArt and the Other: Aesthetic Intersubjectivity in Gadamer and Stein,\u201d <em>Symposium<\/em> Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2020), 74-91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cThe Ethical Imperative of Reincarnation in the Timaeus and the Bhagavad Gita,\u201d <em>Symposia: The Journal of Religion<\/em>, University of Toronto, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/symposia.library.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/symposia\/article\/view\/29347\">https:\/\/symposia.library.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/symposia\/article\/view\/29347<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cAn Ethics of God\u2019s Grace to Balance a Politics of Worldly Affliction: A Weilian Response to Roncalli on Arendt and the World\u201d in <em>The politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations<\/em>. Ed. Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingston. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cEnacting Decreation,\u201d in <em>Rethinking Responses to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah&nbsp;<\/em><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil <\/em>ed. Antonio Calcagno. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cDecreation\u201d in <em>Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil<\/em>, ed. Lissa McCullough. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cOne Hand Clapping: Anatheism and Contemporary Eastern Art\u201d in <em>The Art of Anatheism: Essays on the work of Richard Kearney<\/em>. Ed. Matthew Clemente and Richard Kearney. 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