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Linda Martín Alcoff

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Education

  • PhD, Brown University

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Hunter College

Research Interests

  • Feminism
  • Decolonial theory
  • Philosophy of Race
  • Social Epistemology
  • 19th and 20th century continental philosophy
  • Foucault

Courses Recently Taught

  • Philosophy of Race
  • Foucault, Biopower, and the Security State
  • Gender and Embodiment
  • New Feminist Epistemologies and Metaphysics
  • Continental Epistemologies

Representative Publications

  • Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation Polity Press, 2018.

  • “Critical Theory’s Colonial Unconscious” Berlin Journal of Critical Theory Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2018, 151-166.

  • “Vallega, Dussel, and Radical Exteriority” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 8 (2): Fall 2017.

  • “Philosophy and Philosophical Practice: Eurocentrism as an Epistemology of Ignorance,” Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice ed. Gaile Pohlhaus, Jose Medina, and Ian Kidd. New York: Routledge. 2017. PP. 397-408.

  • “Decolonizing Feminist Philosophy” In Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism & Globalization ed. Margaret McLaren. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. 21-36.

  • The Future of Whiteness. Polity Press 2015.

  • “Philosophy, the Conquest, and the Meaning of Modernity” Human Architecture, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2013, special issue guest edited by George Ciccariello-Maher and Rámon Grosfoguel.​

  • "An Epistemology for the Next Revolution," in Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Productions of the Luso-Hispanic World, Guest Editor: Nelson Maldonado-Torres. Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2011. 67-78.

  • Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology (Cornell University Press, 2008 and 1996).

  • Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Oxford University Press, 2006).

  • Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, co-editor, (Blackwell, 2006).

  • Identity Politics Reconsidered, co-editor, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2006).

  • Identities: A Reader, co-editor, Blackwell, 2003).

  • Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy, editor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

  • Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation, co-editor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

  • Epistemology, editor, (Blackwell, 1998).

  • Feminist Epistemologies, co-editor, (Routledge, 1993).

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Hunter College

Books

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Rape and Resistance

Polity, 2018

by Linda Martín Alcoff Professor, Philosophy, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

Sexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories. But, unfortunately, mainstream public spheres too often echo reports in a way that inhibits proper understanding of its causes, placing too much emphasis on individual responsibility or blaming minority cultures. 
 
In this powerful and original book, Linda Martín Alcoff aims to correct the misleading language of public debate about rape and sexual violence by showing how complex our experiences of sexual violation can be. Although it is survivors who have galvanized movements like #MeToo, when their words enter the public arena they can be manipulated or interpreted in a way that damages their effectiveness. Rather than assuming that all experiences of sexual violence are universal, we need to be more sensitive to the local and personal contexts – who is speaking and in what circumstances – that affect how activists’ and survivors’ protests will be received and understood.

Alcoff has written a book that will revolutionize the way we think about rape, finally putting the survivor center stage.

Published September 2018

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Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader

Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader

by Linda Martín Alcoff Professor, Philosophy, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

This volume collects theoretical analyses that address the racial issues of U.S. nationalism. Since the events of 9/11, the invocation of a united "American" identity has implicit specifications of race, ethnicity, culture of origin, and religion. This collection of essays offers a philosophical response to, and rumination on, the political and cultural context of xenophobia and the rhetoric of freedom, homeland, and unity. 

Published October 2009
SUNY Press, 2009

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St. Paul among the Philosophers (Philosophy of Religion)

St. Paul among the Philosophers

(Philosophy of Religion)

by Linda Martín Alcoff Professor, Philosophy, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

In his epistles, St. Paul expounded a philosophy that posited the universality of truth, the conviction that what is true is true for everyone, and the idea that the truth should be known by all. Recently, secular philosophers who regard his project as centrally important for contemporary political life have returned to his teachings. In a scholarly dialogue that ushers in a new generation of Pauline studies, eminent New Testament scholars, historians, and philosophers debate the philosophical undercurrents of Paul's message

Published July 2009
Indiana University Press, 2009

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