Ada
S. Jaarsma
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: Nichols 324
B.A., University of Waterloo;
M.A., Trent University;
PhD, Purdue University
Phone: (707) 664-3192
email: ada.jaarsma@sonoma.edu
Ada S. Jaarsma is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. She works in continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical theory, and philosophy of culture. She is completing a manuscript currently entitled "Kierkegaard and Gender Studies: Sin, Sex, and Critical Theory."
Recent Publications
"Habermas's Kierkegaard and the Nature of the Secular," Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (forthcoming, 17.2, 2010).
"An Existential Look at Mad Men: Don Draper, Advertising, and the Promise of Happiness," in Philosophy and Mad Men. Ed. Ron Carveth & James South. The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series (forthcoming, 2010).
"Rethinking the Secular in Feminist Marriage Debates," Studies in Social Justice, special issue "Just Reason," (forthcoming, Winter 2010).
“Queering Kierkegaard: Sin, Sex, and Critical Theory,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (forthcoming, Spring 2010).
“The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Kierkegaardian Critique,” in Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, ed. Lisa Tessman (Springer,2009).
Book Review, The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Emily R. Grosholz (Clarendon Press, 2006), APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 7(2): 2008.
"Irigaray's To Be Two: The Problem of Evil and the Plasticity of
Incarnation," (republication) Feminism and the Problem of Evil, ed.
Robin May Schott (Indiana University Press, 2007)
original publication: "Irigaray's To Be Two: The Problem of Evil and the Plasticity of
Incarnation," Hypatia special issue "Feminism and the Problem of Evil." 18.1 (2003): 44-63.
"Word and Flesh: Reading Luce Irigaray," in The Strategic Smorgasbord of Post-Modernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah Bowen. (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)
Research Interests
- 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy and Feminist Theory
- Existentialism and Critical Theory
- Queer Theory and Gender Studies
- Philosophy of Culture
Courses
- Phil 400: Senior Seminar: Intersections in Critical Theory
- Phil 350: Topics in Moral Philosophy: The Problem of Evil
- Phil 305: Existentialism: Kierkegaard, Sartre, Beauvoir
- Phil 315: Truth: Jurgen Habermas
- Phil 390: Feminist Philosophy: The Three Waves of Feminism
- Phil 378: Philosophies of Desire (cross-listed with Women's and Gender Studies)
- Phil 335: Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice (cross-listed with Women's and Gender Studies)
- Phil 307: Philosophical Figures: Hannah Arendt
- Phil 202: Proseminar: Embodiment and Philosophical Reasoning
- Phil 200: Philosophy in Pop Culture
- Phil 120: Introduction to Philosophy
- Phil 101: Critical Thinking
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