Georgia Warnke
Ph.D., Boston University
Professor of Philosophy
Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities
HMNSS 1607
951-827-1503 (message phone)
georgia.warnke@ucr.edu
Professor Warnke's research interests include critical theory, hermeneutics, democratic theory and issues of race, sex and gender. Her latest book is After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Recently she has written articles on Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. Recent graduate courses have focused on Habermas, Hans-Georg Gadamer and issues of identity. Undergraduate courses include courses on political philosophy, feminism and Marxism.
Research Interests:
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Contemporary German Philosophy
- Philosophy of Race and Gender
- Ethics
Recent Awards:
- John Medlin Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 2004-2005
- Faculty Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, Spring, 2003
Sample Publications:
- Books and Collections:
- Legitimate Differences: Interpretation
in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public
Debates, UC Press, 1999
- Justice and Interpretation, MIT Press,
1993
- Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and
Reason, Stanford University Press, 1987
- Translation of K.-O. Apel, Understanding
and Explanation, MIT Press, 1984
- Legitimate Differences: Interpretation
in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public
Debates, UC Press, 1999
- Recent Articles:
- "Race, Gender and Antiessentialist Politics" in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005
- "Interpretive Democracy" in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2005
- "A Hermeneutics of Gender” in Stoller Silvia, Veronica Vasterling and Linda Fisher, eds., Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik, Orbis Phaenomenologicus Neue Folge Perspectiven, Vol. 9, 2005
- "Markets, Democracy and Educational Vouchers” in Stephen Cullenberg and Prasanta K. Pattanaik, eds., Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market: Essays in Economics and Philosophy, 2004
- "Literature, Law and Morality" in Bruce Krajewski, ed., Gadamer’s Repercussions: Philosophical Hermeneutics Reconsidered, 2004
- "Rorty’s Democratic Hermeneutics", in Charles Guignon and Richard Riley, eds., Richard Rorty, 2003
- "Hermeneutics and Constructed Identities", in Lorraine Code, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer,2003.
- "Children and Ian Shapiro’s Democratic Justice", The Good Society, 2002
- "Social Identity as Interpretation" in Ulrich Arnswalt, ed., Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer, 2002
- "Hermeneutics, Ethics and Politics" in Robert Dostal, ed., Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, 2002
- "Race, Gender and Antiessentialist Politics" in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005