Susan James (philosopher)

Susan James is professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London.

Biography

Susan James received her BA, MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut before she returned to Cambridge, first as the Kathryn Jex Blake Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and then Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy. She joined Birkbeck in 2000 and has held fellowships in Israel, Germany, Australia and America.^[1] From 2013-2014 she will be a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University.^[2]

Research

James has published widely on the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy, political and social philosophy and feminist philosophy. Most recently she has focused on the ethical and political implications of the passions in early modern philosophy, primarily in the work of Spinoza.^[1]

Bibliography

• The Content of Social Explanation (Cambridge University Press, 1984; digitally printed paperback 2009)ISBN 9780521266673
• Beyond Equality and Difference, co-edited with Gisela Bock (Routledge, 1992)ISBN 9780415079891
• Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997 - available at Oxford Scholarship Online) ISBN 9780198250135
• Visible Women: Essays in Legal Theory and Political Philosophy, co-edited with Stephanie Palmer (Hart, 2002)ISBN 978-1841131955
• The Political Writings of Margaret Cavendish (Cambridge University Press, 2003)ISBN 978-0521633505
• Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise (Oxford University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0199698127^[3]

References

External links

• Profile at Birkbeck College website
• Encountering the Author: Susan James, Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion and Politics
• BBC Radio4 'In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher Vote' Susan James on Spinoza