Noelle McAffee

Noelle McAffee
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory University
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Ph.D, Philosophy, 1998, University of Texas, Austin
M.A, Philosophy, 1990, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A, Public Policy, 1987 , Duke University
B.A(Honors), History, 1986, University of Texas, Austin

Biography

Noëlle McAfee is a philosopher specializing in democratic theory and practice, transitional justice, feminist philosophy, contemporary European thought, and American pragmatism. She is the principle investigator for a project with the Kettering Foundation on media and democracy and the associate editor of the Kettering Review, a journal of political thought. As a philosopher committed to making the humanities more engaged with public life, McAfee works widely with communities of scholars, deliberative practitioners, new media leaders, and journalists throughout the world.

Her latest book, Democracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia University Press, 2008), charts a course for democratic practice in a world sorely needing transformation. It explores the potential of deliberative dialogue and other public testimonies to work through the traumas of oppression, terror, and brutality that keep political communities from developing spaces and practices through which all can help shape their common world. Her other writings include Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press), Julia Kristeva (Routledge), and Standing with the Public: the Humanities and Democratic Practice (Kettering Foundation Press).

McAfee was Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Analysis at George Mason University 2008-2010 and she blogs at Gone Public: Philosophy, Politics, & Public Life.



Awards and Honors
Research Fellow
Research Fellow, Center for Deliberative Polling, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-1998. Worked with stakeholders in projects involving public consultation and electric...
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March 17, 2008
Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human...
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January 01, 2005
In this paper I unpack a suspicion that much feminist thought about politics flows out of a misconception about the nature of the problems that women face, ultimately about the nature of politics and the public sphere. I suspect that the more conventional feminist...
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December 03, 2003
One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her...
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October 01, 2003
Making Choices Together: The Power of Public Deliberation
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March 01, 2001
Noelle McAfee - Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray (review) - Hypatia 16:2 Hypatia 16.2 (2001) 100-103 Book Review Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and...
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April 27, 2000
Do poststructuralist accounts of the self undermine the prospects for effective democratic politics? In addressing this question, Nolle McAfee brings together the theories of Jrgen Habermas and Julia Kristeva, two major figures whose work is seldom juxtaposed. She...
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September 01, 1998
For thirty years, the National Endowment for the Humanities has stood for the humanities as vitally important to a democratic nation. Yet to many Americans the Connection still seems tenuous. What can the humanities bring to public life? How can democratic...
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January 01, 1990
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July 23, 2016
I had the great pleasure of giving a keynote address today to the North American Society for Social Philosophy. Here
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August 13, 2009
In episode 8 of the Digital Dialogue, host Christopher Long, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Associate
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Guest Speaker Randa Slim Assessing Democratization Efforts in Iraq Part of Noelle McAfee's seminar, Democratic Theory and Post-Conflict Democratization Contact: Erica Soren, [email protected]
April 09, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009 Guest Speaker Harold Saunders Democratization in Russia Part of Noelle McAfee's seminar, Democratic Theory and Post-Conflict Democratization 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Truland Building, Room 555 Contact: Erica Soren, [email protected]
March 05, 2009
Harold Saunders Speaking on Democratic Theory and Post-Conflict Democratization
March 05, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009 Guest Speaker Ramon Daubon "Why do they REALLY hate us?: a long view of the obsessive US-Cuba relationship." Part of Noelle McAfee's seminar, Democratic Theory and Post-Conflict Democratization 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Truland Building, Room 555 Contact: Erica
February 12, 2009
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