What Do Women Have to Do with It? Race, Religion, and the Witch Hunts

Anya Topolski

doi:10.54195/HSOV8373

What Do Women Have to Do with It? Race, Religion, and the Witch Hunts

Authors

Anya Topolski

Radboud University, Nijmegen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH03

Synopsis

María Isabel Peña Aguado is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile. She works on aesthetics, feminism and gender studies, as well as on political theory. Some selected publications are Das ‘schöne’ Denken: Der Ort des Weiblichen in Philosophie, Ästhetik und Literatur (2014), “Body Indeterminate: The Precariousness of the Body in Feminist Discourse” (2015), “El feminismo y sus caballos de Troya” (2016), Filósofas en con-texto (2016) and “Antígona, de mito androcéntrico a símbolo feminista. Una reflexión” (2021).

Author Biography

Anya Topolski, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Anya Topolski is Associate Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on the race-religion constellations in Europe, past and present. Related publications include: “The Race-Religion Intersection: A European Contribution to the Critical Philosophy of Race” (2018), and “Good Jew, Bad Jew… ‘Managing’ Europe’s Others” (2017). Her most recent books are: Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality (Rowman and Littlefield 2015) and Is There a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective (De Gruyter 2016). Her areas of expertise are racism, political philosophy, ethics, European identity and exclusion, antisemitism and Islamophobia, political theology, Jewish thought, Arendt, Levinas, and the myth of Judeo-Christianity.