Contact information

Email: Hasana Sharp
Tel: 398-3050
Office: LEA 935
Office hours (Fall 2009) : tba

Address:
Department of Philosophy
McGill University
Leacock Building
855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Secretary General, The Society for Social & Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives: SSPP Website

Degrees

Ph.D., Philosophy, doctoral minor in Social Thought, The Pennsylvania State University (August 2005)
Diplôme, Pennsionnaire Scientifique Etranger, Ecole Normale Supérieure des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (June 2004)
MA, Philosophy, Binghamton University (SUNY) (August 1999)
AB, Religious Studies and Literature, Occidental College (May 1995)

Teaching and Research Areas

Political Theory
Feminist Theory
17th Century Philosophy

Current Research Interests:

My research currently explores the ethical and political implications of Spinoza’s categorical denial of human uniqueness with respect to the rest of nature. I am interested especially in how a rejection of the opposition between humanity and nature transforms feminist and anti-racist politics.

Other Philosophical Interests

Philosophy of Race
19th Century Philosophy

Selected Publications

“The Impersonal is Political: Spinoza and a Feminist Politics of Imperceptibility,” Hypatia 24.4 (October-December 2009): 91-112.

“Love and Possession: Towards a Political Economy of Ethics 5,” North American Spinoza Society Monograph 14 (2009): 1-19.

“The Force of Ideas in Spinoza,” Political Theory 35.6 (December 2007): 732-755.

“Melancholy, Anxious, and Ek-static Selves: Feminism between Eros and Thanatos,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 11.2 (Fall 2007): 313-331.

“Love and Possession: Towards a Political Economy of Ethics V,” North American Spinoza Society Monograph 15, forthcoming.

“Why Spinoza Today? Or, ‘A Strategy of Anti-Fear’”, Rethinking Marxism, 17.4 (October 2005): 591-608.

“Feeling Justice: The Reorientation of Possessive Desire in Spinoza,” International Studies in Philosophy, 37.2 (Spring 2005).

“Smash the Sovereign Paradigm!: ‘War of the Races’ as an Alternative to the Discourse of Sovereignty,” Intertexts, Special Issue: History, Technology and Identity: After Foucault, 6.1 (Spring 2002): 98-109.

“Is it Simple to be a Feminist in Philosophy?: Althusser and Feminist Theoretical Practice,” Rethinking Marxism, 12.2 (Summer 2000): 18-34.