Georgia WarnkeGeorgia 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

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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

  • 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

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