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Jane Flax

Scholar in Residence
Department of Philosophy and Religion

  • Professor Flax's research interests include feminist theory, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, contemporary European and American political theory, and philosophy of mind and ethics. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Washington, DC.

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Teaching

  • Spring 2013

    • PHIL-411 Modern European Movements: Psychoanalysis &/as Philosophy
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  • Fall 2013

    • PHIL-412 Recent & Contemp Philosophers: Michel Foucault
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

       
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    Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Postmodern­ism in the Contemporary West (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990; paperback 1991)

       
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    Disputed Subjects: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1993)

       
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    ­­­­The American Dream in Black and White: The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998; paperback 1999)

       
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    Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations: Shadow at the Heart of American Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)