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Victoria I. Burke
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto
Supervisor: Rebecca Comay [Hegel and the French Revolution]
Adviser: Graeme Nicholson
My current research projects concern the contemporary political implications of Hegel’s concepts of self-determination and mutual recognition, including feminist applications. I am developing a reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which demonstrates that his celebrated conception of desire is a principle of cognitive synthesis that projects an open futural horizon. I am also continuing my research on Hegel's treatment of Sophocles' Antigone.
Discussant, Panel on Karin De Boer's book, On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 51st Annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, November 1-3, 2012, Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Rochester, New York.
"Conscience and the Refusal of Care: An Hegelian Analysis," to be presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics at the Annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Wilfrid Laurier University / University of Waterloo, May 26-June 2, 2012.
"Self-Determination as a Principle of Justice, Revisited," presented to session entitled "John Rawls: Approaches and Themes" at the Midwest Political Science Association, March 31-April 3, 2011, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois; presented at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Twentieth Annual Meeting, March 3-6, 2011 - Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel, Ohio [Abstract] Keywords: Hegel, ethical substance, practical reason.
“Virgin Desire: Hegel, Lacan, and the Politics of the Veil,” presented at Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society interdisciplinary conference, Department of Political Science, York University, and Department of Mid-East Studies, University of Toronto, June 3-5, 2010, Toronto; also presented to PhiloSOPHIA: A Feminist Society, 5th Annual Meeting, May 5-8, 2011, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Publications
"Hegel and the Normativity of the Concept," Idealistic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Forthcoming, Volume 41, Issue 3, Fall 2011; presented to the Society for German Idealism meeting at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, Westin Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, April 4-7, 2012 [2012 SGI Program]; also to be presented to the Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, History of Philosophy Division, Wilfrid Laurier University / University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 27-30, 2012.
"The Substance of Ethical Recognition: Hegel's Antigone and the Irreplaceability of the Brother," New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, Duke University Press, Forthcoming, Issue #118, Winter 2013; presented to the Contemporary Political Theory division at the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2008; also presented to the Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy 4th Annual Joint Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 29-31 August, 2008. Keywords: the economy, economic inequality, recognition, the family, history of marriage, reciprocity, love, desire [Abstract]
"Hegel, Antigone, and First-Person Authority." Philosophy and Literature. The Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2010 [Abstract]. This paper was presented under the title "Antigone, The Supreme Uncanny" at Hegel’s Absolute Spirit: Connections between Art, Religion and Philosophy: An Annual Meeting of Canadian and American Hegelians, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 19– 21, 2010. [Conference Poster]; also presented to the "German Idealism" session at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference, Faculty of Theology, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, UK, 23-26 September 2010.
"From Ethical Substance to Reflection: Hegel's Antigone." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Vol. 41, No. 3, September 2008. Presented at the annual meeting of the Ontario Hegel Organization, York University, Toronto, Ontario, March 31- April 1, 2007 [Abstract] Get a copy here.
"Essence Today: Hegel and the Economics of Identity Politics." Philosophy Today. Spring 2007. [Abstract]
"Hegel's Concept of Mutual Recognition: The Limits of Self-Determination." The Philosophical Forum. Summer 2005 [Erratum]; presented at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division meeting (Main Colloquium Program), Palmer House Hilton,Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30, 2005 [Abstract] Keyword: Truth
Book Review Essay on desire, language, and Hegel's Aesthetics. Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit, Kathleen Dow Magnus, State University of New York Press, 2001, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Nos 45/46, 2002.
“On Development: World, Limit, Translation,” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Winter 2002; presented to the Political Philosophy division of the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting, University of Toronto , May 25-28, 2002 . [Questia Online Library] [Stanford Encyclopaedia Bibliography of Feminist History of Philosophy] [Abstract] Keywords: Walter Benjamin, friendship, language
“The Politics of Contradiction: Feminism and the Self,” Philosophy Today, Spring 2000.
“From Desire to Fascination: Hegel and Blanchot on Negativity,” MLN (French Issue), (The Johns Hopkins University Press, September 1999); presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy meeting, University of Oregon, October 6-9, 1999 (single paper session with commentator)
“Antigone’s Transgression: Hegel and Bataille on the Divine and the Human,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Summer 1999.
Hegel Society of America
Hegel Society of Great Britain
"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause."
Hamlet
*Note: There are other Victoria Burke's who publish on European philosophy.. All of my publications except "Hegel's Concept of Mutual Recognition" "are published wth my middle initial'I'.