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Nancy Bauer
Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor
Feminism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Ordinary Language
Philosophy, Philosophy and Film
Professor Bauer is also an advisor in
Women's
Studies and in
International Relations. She is a member of the International
Relations Executive Committee, the Women's Studies Board, and the
Communications and Media Studies University Advisory Board.
Biography
Nancy Bauer is interested in thinking about what philosophy is
and what role it plays, or should or might play, in everyday human
life. Her writing explores these issues, especially as they arise in
reflection about gender and philosophy, the history of philosophy,
and philosophy and film. Her book on Simone de Beauvoir's The
Second Sex was published by Columbia University Press in 2001,
and she is currently finishing up a new book called How to Do
Things With Pornography. Bauer received her Ph.D. in Philosophy
from Harvard after majoring in social science as an undergraduate,
working as a reporter and a medical writer, and attending divinity
school. She enjoys hanging out with her children; wrestling with the
Sunday NYT crossword puzzle, listening to all things rock and
roll, and watching, playing, and coaching baseball. She’s also never
without her knitting. Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
MTS, Harvard Divinity School
AB, Harvard University Awards
Joseph A. and Lillian Leibner Award for Distinguished Advising
and Teaching, 2005
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, 2002 – 2003
Undergraduate Initiative in Teaching Award, 2002
TCU Senate Professor of the Year, 2002
Selected Publications
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"Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism," New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
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"Hegel and Feminist Politics: A Symposium," with Kimberley Hutchings, Tuija
Pulkkinen, and Alison Stone, Feminist Engagements With Hegel,
Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
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"Beauvoir on the Allure of Self-Objectification," (Re)découvrir l’oeuvre
de Simone de Beauvoir: Du Deuxième Sexe à La Cérémonie des adieux,
edited by Pascale Fautrier, Pierre-Louis Fort, and Anne Strasser (Paris: Le
Bord de L’Eau, 2008): 249 – 256.
- "The
Second Feminism," Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy,
October 2007.
- "The
N-Word," Fringe 10 (June 2007).
- "Pornutopia,"
n+1 5 (Winter 2007): 63 – 73.
- "How to Do Things With Pornography," Reading Cavell, edited by
Sanford Shieh and Alice Crary (New York: Routledge, 2006).
- "On Human Understanding," Wittgensteinian Fideism, edited by Kai
Nielsen and D. Z. Phillips (Norwich, England: SCM Press, 2006).
- "Beauvoir’s Heideggerian Ontology," The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir:
Critical Essays, edited by Margaret A. Simons (Indiana University Press,
2006).
- "Cogito Ergo Film: Plato, Descartes, and Fight Club," Film as
Philosophy: Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell, edited by
Rupert Read (Florence, KY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
- "Must We Read Simone de Beauvoir?" The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir,
edited by Emily Grosholz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
- "Is Feminist Philosophy a Contradiction in Terms?" Twenty Questions: An
Introduction to Philosophy, 5th ed., edited by G. Lee Bowie, Robert C.
Solomon, Meredith W. Michaels (Florence, KY: Wadsworth, 2003). An
abridgement of chapter 1 of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism.
- "Being-with
as Being-against: Heidegger Meets Hegel in The Second Sex,"
Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 (June 2001).
- "First Philosophy, The Second Sex, and the Third Wave," Labyrinth,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 1999). Reprinted in Simone de Beauvoir: 50 Jahre
nach Dem Anderen Geschlecht, edited by Yvanka B. Raynova and Susanne
Moser (Vienna: Institute for Axiological Research, 1999). A different
version of chapter 2 of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism.
- "Sum Femina Inde Cogito: Das andere Geschleht und Die
Meditationen," Die Philosophin 20 (October 1999): 41 – 61.
Courses taught
regularly
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Phil 24:
Introduction to Ethics
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Phil 48: Feminist
Philosophy
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Phil 54:
Philosophy and Film
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Phil 185: From
Hegel to Nietzsche
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Phil 186:
Phenomenology and Existentialism
Seminars
- Philosophy
and Film
- Freud
- Wittgenstein
- Topics in
Feminist Philosophy
- Heidegger’s
Being and Time
- The Legacy
of Simone de Beauvoir
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