Furious feminist philosopher, author, likes to draw pictures
British Academy Global Professor at University of York till August 2028
Sandrine Berges
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Cfp: Brill JHWP Women and the Abolition of Transatlantic Slavery, Guest Editors S. Bergès and A. Coffee
Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 2 Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery Guest editors Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee While the enslaved…
Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 2 Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery Guest editors Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee While the enslaved had always fought their condition, and a few isolated philosophers wrote against slavery, the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century saw the birth of a new way of resisting it: the social movement of abolitionism.
Remembering Andrew Cooper, three events
Andrew was known to readers of this blog for his work on early modern philosopher Amalia Holst. Remembering Andrew CooperDownload
Just had this thought. We, feminist philosophers, are a bit like bulls in a china shop. We say forceful things in a fragile (intellectual) environment. That's what philosophers do. But more often than not, if you're a woman philosopher, there's no one to pick up after you, or to pay for damages.
today's six pages of Chateaubriand made the move from constant bitching about Napoleon back to constant bitching about Talleyrand. But also there were at least three crazy beautiful sentences. It's a bit like watching a bad actor act because they're pretty.
I can see birds of prey flying over lambs. Nietzsche, where are you? Come out of hiding, now!
Traveling from York to Exeter in one train, no change. Unfortunately this one train has little internet and is very smelly.
Just come back from a two weeks trip and we now have a weeds lawn in our gravelled front yard...
It’s May 2026. France finally repealed the Code Noir - the laws that codified slavery.
It stopped being in effect in 1848 but had never been officially removed…
Now, pay back Haiti.
Sandrine Berges
Sandrine Berges
Sandrine Berges
Sandrine Berges
Sandrine Berges
Sandrine Berges
French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies.
