Research

I am currently working on a monograph about Hegel’s concept of experience in the Phenomenology of Spirit with special emphasis on the Spirit-chapter.  My central argument is that Hegel practices a form of standpoint theory, which was later developed by Sandra Harding, Nancy Hartsock, and Angela Davis.   Throughout the Spirit-chapter, Hegel  accords epistemic privilege to those conscious subjects who are at a social disadvantage, for it is they who have experiences in Hegel’s sense, namely, experiences that provoke conceptual change.

I am also starting to write about Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, specifically topics such as lesbian fashion, lived experience, the charge of inauthenticity, and her critique of marriage.