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Updated – Dec. 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE RUTH ABBEY Educational Background PhD in Political Science, McGill University, 1995. Dissertation: Descent & Dissent: Nietzsche's Reading of Two French Moralists. Supervisor: Charles Taylor. MA in Political Science, McGill University, 1989 Research paper: John Dewey: A Fresh Look BA, Monash University, 1984. First class honours in Political Science and a Major in English. Thesis title: The Liberation of the senses in Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Career Current Position Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame Previous Positions 2005-2013 Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame 2008-2009 Faculty Fellow Murphy Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs Tulane University, New Orleans 2002-2005 Senior Lecturer Department of Politics & International Relations University of Kent at Canterbury 2000-2002 Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, UKC 2000 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia 1999-2000 Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 2 1999 Acting Director, Politics & Law Program, College of Law, University of Notre Dame, Australia Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Western Australia. 1997 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge University (Michaelmas Term) 1996-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Western Australia (UWA); Part-time lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia 1995 Lecturer in Philosophy & Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Australia; Sessional Lecturer, Department of Political Science, UWA 1994 Part-time Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia 1991-1992 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, McGill University 1990 Part-time Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, McGill 1985-1987 Full-time Tutor, Department of Politics, Monash University Publications Monographs Nietzsche’s Middle Period. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 208pp. Reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics, 55, September 2001, 117-18; Mind Vol. 111, No. 442, April, 2002, 434-443; British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2002, 318-20; Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 80, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 390-92 Charles Taylor. Princeton University Press and Acumen Publishing, UK, 2000 250pp. Selected as one of the 2002 Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice Magazine; Reviewed in Radical Philosophy, 108, July-Aug, 2001, 52-54; Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 36, Issue 3, Nov. 2001, p. 618; Review of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 1, Winter 2002, 170-72; Thesis Eleven, #71, 1, 2002, 142-146; 3 Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 56, No. 1, Sept. 2002, 157-8; University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 71, No.1, Winter 2002; Philosophy in Review, XXII, No. 5, 2002; Carnegie Council, July 1, 2002 Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 2, January 2003, 456. Australasian Catholic Record, 2003; Political Theory, Vol. 32, No. 5, Oct. 2004, 723-733 The Return of Feminist Liberalism. McGill-Queens University Press, 2011. 326pp. Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Dec. 2011 Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, September 2012, 327–8. International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2013 Hypatia, 2013 http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/178 In Progress Human All too Human: A Critical Introduction and Guide, The Edinburgh Guides to Nietzsche Series, Edinburgh University Press, Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Daniel Conway Edited Volumes In Progress Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections in Honor of Fred Dallmayr Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 220pp. Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004.08.02; Heythrop Journal, 46 (2): 272-273 April, 2005; Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter, 2005, p. 63; Philosophy in Review, XXV, No. 1, 2005, 1-3; Feminist Interpretations of Rawls. Part of the Penn State University Press Series Re- Reading the Canon. 2013 Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/50412-feminist-interpretations-of-john-rawls/ 4 Hypatia http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/223 Publications in Refereed Journals Published “Putting Cruelty First: Animals and the Liberalism of Fear”, Animals and Politics, pp. 25 - 36, dec. 2016. ISSN 2002-0295. http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/pa/article/view/15202 “Closer Kinships? Rortyan Resources for Animal Rights”, Contemporary Political Theory, 2016, First online March 22, 2016. doi:10.1057/cpt.2016.10 “Nietzsche and Swanton on Self-Love” Journal of Value Inquiry. Volume 49, Issue 3 (2015), Page 387-403 “Lotsa Gotcha Moments for the Deciders”, Contribution to Symposium on The Eyes of the People. Political Theory. April 2014, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 202-6. [co-authored with Jeff Spinner Halev] “Rawls, Mill and the Problem of Political Liberalism”. Journal of Politics, 2013, pp. 1-13. [co-authored with Sarah Hyde] ‘No Country for Older People? Age and the Digital Divide’, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, Vol. 7. No. 4, 2009, pp. 225-242. ‘Bricks and Stones’, The Review of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2008 pp.1-6. ‘Rawlsian Resources for Animal Ethics’, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 1-22. `Back Toward a Comprehensive Liberalism? Justice as Fairness, Gender and Families’, Political Theory, Vol. 35, No. 1, Feb, 2007, pp. 1-24. 'Turning or Spinning? Charles Taylor’s Catholicism’, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 163-175. ‘Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?’ Journal of New Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 461-480. 'Recognising Taylor Rightly: A Reply to Morag Patrick’, Ethnicities, 3 (1), March, 2003, pp. 115-131. 'Pluralism in Practice: The Political Thought of Charles Taylor’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol 5, No. 3 (Autumn 2002) pp. 98-123. 5 'Young Karl Does Headstands: A Reply to Daniel Brudney’, Political Theory, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2002. pp. 151-156. [co-authored with Douglas Den Uyl] 'The Chief Inducement? The Idea of Marriage as Friendship', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2001. 37-52 'Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2.4. Winter, 1999. pp. 50-73. 'The Roots of Ressentiment: Nietzsche on Vanity'. New Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 3, nos. 3 & 4, Summer/ Fall, 1999 pp. 47-61. 'Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition: A Reply to Jonathan Seglow’, Political Studies, 47 (4) September, 1999. pp. 710-714 'Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft'. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 14, 3, Summer 1999. pp. 78-95. [co-authored with Fredrick Appel] 'Domesticating Nietzsche: A reply to Mark Warren’ Political Theory. Vol 27, No. 1. February, 1999 pp. 121-25 'Mediocrity versus Meritocracy: Nietzsche's (Mis)reading of Chamfort'. History of Political Thought, Volume XIX, No. 3, Autumn 1998. pp. 457-483 'Nietzsche and the Invention of Invention' Journal of Nietzsche Studies. Issue 15. Spring 1998 pp. 1-14. [co-authored with Fredrick Appel] 'Nietzsche and the Will to Politics'. Review of Politics. Winter, 1998 (January, Vol. 60:1) pp. 83-114 'Odd Bedfellows: Nietzsche and Mill on Marriage' History of European Ideas, Vol. 23, No 2-4, 1997. pp. 81-104 'More perspectives on communitarianism: A reply to Chandran Kukathas' Australian Quarterly Winter 1997. Vol 69, No. 2 pp. 73-82 'A Critique of Lynch’s Locke' Political Theory Newsletter. March, 1997. Vol 8 No 2 pp. 11-14 'Beyond Misogyny and Metaphor: Women in Nietzsche's Middle Period', Journal of the History of Philosophy (US). 34:2 April 1996 pp. 233-56 ‘Crocodile Dundee or Davy Crockett? What Crocodile Dundee doesn't say about Australia’ (with Jo Crawford) Journal of Popular Culture (US) XXIII:4 1990. pp. 155- 175. This was an expanded version of an article that appeared in Meanjin 46, 2. June 1987. pp. 145-52. 6 'Caveat Emptor! The False Advertising of the New Right' The Australian Quarterly 59: 3 & 4 1987. pp. 290-296. Chapters in Books "Siblings under the Skin?: Charles Taylor on Believers and Sceptics in A Secular Age" for Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide eds. Richard Norman and Tony Carroll. Routledge, UK, 2016. “Skilled Marksman and Strict Self-Examination: Nietzsche on La Rochefoucauld” in Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy (ed.) Rebecca Bamford, 2015, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 13-32. [co-authored with Naomi Choi] Entry on Charles Taylor, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Michael Gibbon. 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. “Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of Rights for Women”, for the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in the "Rethinking the Western Canon" series, Yale University Press, 2014. Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting, pp. 229-245. “Theorizing Secularity 3: Authenticity, Ontology, Fragilization ” in Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age: Essays on Religion and Theology in the Work of Charles Taylor (eds.) Carlos D. Colorado and Justin D. Klassen, University of Notre Dame Press. 2014, pp. 98- 124. “Biography of a Bibliography: Three decades of feminist response to Rawls”, Editor’s Introduction to Feminist Interpretations of Rawls, Penn