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    • The Sea is Rising and so are We: a Climate Justice Handbook
    • Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World
    • Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope
    • Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
    • Desiring Reason: Reason and an Unavoidable Discourse of Desire
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    • A Just Transition to a Fair and Sustainable Society or Healthy Green Growth?
    • Facing Our Other Crises With Lessons From COVID-19
    • Mobilizing Climate Action in the Face of Planet of the Humans
    • Rethinking Freedom, Government, and Expertise in the Time of COVID-19
    • Holding onto Your Humanity in Solitary Confinement
    • Motivating Climate Action: A Review of Per Espen Stoknes “What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming.”
    • Why Include Study of the Holocaust in Higher Education
    • Counterhegemony
    • Making Rights Work
    • Creating a Home through the Green New Deal A review of Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth
    • Thinking about Fascism
    • Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners
    • Belonging and Social Change: A Critique of the Politics of Wokeness
    • Fighting for the Climate: A Note from Post-Apocalyptic California
    • Building Democracy to Fight the Nativist Attack: A Review of ‘The People vs. Democracy’
    • Owning Our Shit: The US Role in Global Migration
    • It May Actually Be Worse Than You Think: Assessing the Integrated and Funded Machine We Are Up Against
    • Unicorns, Gnomes, and Plea to the Press on Covering Trump
    • Ten Ways to Challenge Capitalism’s Death Grip on Daily Life
    • An End of Power?
    • Climate Action: Disrupting Business as Usual
    • Making Rights Work
    • The Left and the Rule of Law
    • Nonviolence as a Strategy for Protecting the Election Results
    • Preparing to Protect the Election Results
    • Solidarity Forever: Essential Workers, Public Goods, and How We Are in This Together
    • Understanding Accountability So We Can Hold the Police to Account
    • Alternatives to Killing People for the Economy
    • The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation
    • Breaking Our Dependency on the Old Economy as We Build the New
    • Facing Our Other Crises With Lessons From COVID-19
    • Getting out of this Mess by Building support for Economic and Social Justice
    • White Supremacy won the Election
    • White Supremacy won the Election
    • On Surviving the Trump Years with Our Spirits Intact
    • Healthy News Habits
    • Empowered Students Transforming Colleges: Civic Engagement as an Equity Strategy
    • Don’t Mourn, Organize…and Vote
    • Making beautiful things where everyone gains and no one profits
    • Is Reinvestment a Good Strategy for the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement?
  • Articles
    • A User’s Guide to White Privilege
    • Is Philosophy Anything if it isn’t White
    • Thoughts on Anti-Capitalist Organizing: Imagining a Way Beyond Revolution or Reform
    • Empowered Students Transforming Colleges
    • Overcoming Faculty Fears of Civic Work
    • Knowledge as Masculine Heroism or Embodied Perception: Knowledge, Will, and Desire in Nietzsche
    • The Unforced Force of the More Familiar Argument: A Critique of Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Rationality
    • The Chasm of the Political in Postmodern Theory
    • Should we Ask if Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
    • Foucault and a Feminist Theory of Difference

Category: philisophy

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman feminism, philisophy, social change

Foucault and a Feminist Theory of Difference

This was published in subject V1 #2 Winter 1989, a journal started by my friend Alison Brown. foucault-and-a-feminist-theory-of-differenceDownload

March 20, 2021June 9, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman philisophy

Desiring Reason: Reason and an Unavoidable Discourse of Desire

desiring-reason-reason-as-an-unavoidable-discourse-of-desire.Download This is my dissertation...not technicaly a book, since it wasn't published. Finished in 1991.

March 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman philisophy, politics, social change

The Chasm of the Political in Postmodern Theory

chasm-of-the-political_kaufman-and-martinDownload

December 31, 2020June 9, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman philisophy, racism

The Unforced Force of the More Familiar Argument: A Critique of Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Rationality

https://www.pdcnet.org/philtoday/content/philtoday_1999_0043_0004_0348_0360 the-unforced-force-of-the-more-familiar-argumentDownload

December 31, 2020June 9, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman philisophy, power

Knowledge as Masculine Heroism or Embodied Perception: Knowledge, Will, and Desire in Nietzsche

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229495904_Knowledge_as_Masculine_Heroism_or_Embodied_Perception_Knowledge_Will_and_Desire_in_Nietzsche

December 31, 2020June 9, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman philisophy, racism

Is Philosophy Anything if it isn’t White

is-philosophy-anything...Download Chapter 4 in The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy by George Yancy (Author, Contributor), 2010 Lexington Books.

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