Hasana Sharp
Professor; Associate Member of Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
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Hasana Sharp earned her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University (2005) and a dipl么me (pensionnaire scientifique 茅tranger) from the Ecole Normale Sup茅rieure des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (2004). Her research is in the history of political philosophy with a focus on Spinoza. 聽Her book,聽Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (University of Chicago, 2011), examines the implications of Spinoza's denial of human exceptionalism for ethics and politics, with consideration of arguments in feminist thought,聽critical philosophy of race, and ecocriticism. She is currently undertaking a SSHRC-funded research project on Spinoza and Servitude. She聽interested in how his analyses of human servitude, bondage, and聽slavery, central to both his ethics and politics,聽can be understood in relationship to other models. In particular, how do聽Spinoza's philosophical and political conceptions of servitude interact with the notions of his contemporaries聽objecting to the enslavement of African and Indigenous peoples聽or to聽the domination of women? Her teaching interests include the history of political thought, early modern philosophy, feminism, philosophy of race, and environmental thoughts.聽
History of Political Philosophy (esp. 17th and 19th centuries); 17th century philosophy; Contemporary Political Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; Philosophy of Race; Environmental Philosophy.
Books:
Spinoza's Political Treatise: A Critical Guide, co-edited with Y. Melamed聽(Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Feminist Philosophies of Life,聽co-edited with Chlo毛 Taylor (McGill-Queens University Press, 2016).
Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization聽(University of Chicago, 2011).
Recent Essays:
鈥淪lavery and Servitude in Seventeenth-Century Feminism: Arcangela Tarabotti and Gabrielle Suchon,鈥� in Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, edited by K. Detlefsen and L. Shapiro (London: Routledge 2023): 297-310.
鈥淪pinoza on the Fear of Solitude,鈥� Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 11 (2022): 137-162.
鈥溾�橧 dare not mutter a word: Speech and Political Violence in Spinoza,鈥� Crisis and Critique 8.1 (July 2021): 365-386.
鈥淣ot all Humans: Radical Criticism of the Anthropocene Narrative,鈥� Environmental Philosophy 17.1 (2020): 143-158.
鈥淔eminism and Heterodoxy: Moira Gatens鈥檚 Spinoza,鈥� Philosophy Today 63.3 (2019): 795-803.
鈥淕enerosity as Freedom in 厂辫颈苍辞锄补鈥檚 Ethics,鈥� in Spinoza in 21st Century American and French Philosophy, edited by J. Stetter and C. Ramond (Bloomsbury, 2019):聽277-288.
鈥淔amily Quarrels and Mental Harmony: 厂辫颈苍辞锄补鈥檚 Oikos-Polis Analogy,鈥� in 厂辫颈苍辞锄补鈥檚 Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 93-110.
鈥湷П杈辈源浅光�檚 commonwealth and the anthropomorphic illusion,鈥� Philosophy Today (Fall 2017): 833-846.
鈥淪pinoza and the possibilities for radical climate ethics,鈥� Dialogues in Human Geography 7.2 (July 2017): 156-160.