Dr. Joshua D. Goldstein

UNDER REVIEW

Article: (co-author: William Gregson) "What Can Hegel’s Account of the Family Tell Us Today? Liberation, Love, and Madness" (final draft: 14,000 words)

IN PROGRESS

Edited Book Oddities of Violence: Lessons from the Margins of Terrorism, Genocide, and Mass Violence (co-editors: Gavin Cameron, Joshua D. Goldstein, and Maureen Hiebert) (SSHRC funded book workshop, June 2023)

Article: ‘Falling in Love with Hegel or What Do We Love When We Love Our Spouse?’ (Fourth draft: approx. 17,000 words)

Article: (co-author: William Gregson) "Hegel on Work-Family Balance, or: Why Marriage is a Bigger Problem for Hegel’s System of Freedom than the Rabble" (working on initial draft)

Article: ‘Five Models of the family-State Relation in the History of Western Political Thought’ (First draft of core arguments completed: approx. 6,000 words)

Masters' Students

2023– David Park, MA Thesis TBD: War and the Good Life

2023– Alejandra Vivas, MA Thesis TBD: Pain and the Good Life

2022–2023 Connor O’Reilly, Foucauldian Ethical Selfhood: An Elaborative Analysis With Modern Transgender and Incel Identities. (Masters’ Research Paper: Completed August 2023)

2020–22 Zachary Pfeifer, Ideas of Europe: The European Political Community in the Thought of Buffon and Montesquieu. (Defended August 2022)

2018–20 Kelsey Gordon, She is at Home: Re-situating women as embodied agency in Aristotle’s and Hegel’s political philosophy of fulfilment. (Defended August 2020)

2017–19 Erica Kunimoto, Participatory Love: Exploring Non-Oppressive Relationality Through Plato, Hegel and Irigaray. (Defended August 2019)

2010–14 Joshua Haase, The Ontology of Marriage. (Defended August 2014)

2008–10 Robin Blake, Towards a Conception of Rape as a Violation of Constitutive Autonomy in Greek, Christian, and New Natural Law Theory. (Defended August 2010)

2022– BA Hon: Gala McCrown* TBD

2021–22 BA Hon: Amy Buick ‘Equality and Rights’

2021–22 BA Hon: Mohamed Hage ‘From the Discourses to the Reveries: Rousseau and the Paradox of Dependency’

2020–21 BA Hon: William Gregson ‘The “Path of Despair”: Hegel, Madness, and the Sanity of Ethicality’

2019–20 BA Hon: Zachary Pfeifer ‘Unrest in the West: Burke, Kant, Hegel and the Foundations of Western Reconciliation’

2019–20 BA Hon: Vagisha Agrawal ‘Investigating the Harms of Rape through the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ (Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gina Starblanket) (Degree in Communication, Media, and Film)

2019–20 PURE: Will Gregson ‘Understanding the Relationship Between the Liberal Order and the Rise of Nationalist Populism Today: The Contribution of Structuralism and Humanism in Marxist Theory’ (Summer 2019)

2017–18 BA Hon: Kelsey Gordon ‘The Discordance Between Truth and Art, or the Capacity to Create Beauty[: Plato and Nietzsche]’

2016–17 BA Hon: Kathryn Verwaayen ‘An Exploration of Hegel and Butler with a Focus on the Individual and Sexuality, Women and the Family’

2016–17 BA Hon: Mark Grosjean ‘Bordered Culture: Rawls and Migration in Europe’

2015–16 BA Hon: Lucas Jerusalemiec ‘Good Men and Good Citizens: Reconciling Prudence and Lawfulness’ [thesis won the Department of Political Science Best Honours Thesis Award for 2015/16]

2014–15 BA Hon: Holly Ellesworth Clark ‘The Scope of our Obligations: Rawls and Singer’

2013–15 BA Hon: Graham Rapson ‘Contemporary Technology and the Ontological Underpinnings of Liberal Democracy: C.B. Macpherson’s Political Thought and the Debate over Big Data’

2011–12 BA Hon: James Delaney ‘Education to Freedom in the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’

2011–12 BA Hon: Angelo Law ‘Complete Freedom: An Analysis of Marx and Rousseau, and a Solution to Securing Freedom’

2011–12 BHSc Hannah O’Riain ‘Examining the Conflict Between Midwifery and Biomedical Maternity Care: Is There a Philosophical Barrier’ (BHSc)

2010–11 BA Hon: Kieran Jimenez ‘Personal Liberty, Political Legitimacy: Rousseau, J.S. Mill, and Proudhon’

2009–10 BA Hon: Cam Cotton-O’Brien ‘State, Citizen, and Moral Autonomy: Rousseau, Foucault, Berlin’

2009–10 BA Hon: Alix Hvidberg ‘Morality and the Law: Same-sex Marriage through Dworkin, Hart, and Rawls’

2009–10 BHSc: Karolina Kowalewski ‘A Rebirth of the Clinic? Exploring Reproductive Technologies Through Foucault and Heidegger’

2009–10 BHSc: Yasmin Mayne ‘A Philosophic Investigation into the Nature Of Sex and Its Relationship to Commercialization and Well-Being’ 

2008–9 PURE: Cam Cotton-O’Brien ‘Homelessness and Foucault: a brief shedding of light’ (Summer 2009)

2008–9 BA Hon: Kai Larson ‘Marx, Lenin and the Materialism of Revolution’

2008–9 BA Hon: Tyson Vandament ‘Machiavelli’s Institutionalism: State Power and Its Foundations’

2007–8 BA Hon: Lauren Brander ‘Where the Personal is Political: Power and Violence in Second-Wave Feminist Political Theory’

2007–8 BA Hon: Shane Sackman ‘Plato and Hegel on the Family’

2007–8 BHSc: Gina Vaz ‘Female Genital Cutting: A Philosophical Approach’

2006–7 PURE: Shane Sackman ‘The Foundations of Natural Law Thinking’ (Summer 2007)

2006–7 BA Hon: Joshua Johnston ‘The Economics of the Good Life in Aristotle and the Young Marx’

2006–7 BA Hon: Randi Szakaly ‘Towards Greater Justice: the paradox of women’s inequality’

Conference Papers & Presentations

2023 ‘The Madness of ‘Work-Family Balance’: Hegel on freedom, identity, and marriage in modernity’, Prairie Political Science Association, Banff, AB. Sept. 2023. (With William Gregson)

2023 ‘Three Stories of Freedom in Hegel’s Account of the Ethical Family: The Philosophy of Right on Woman, Love, and Madness’, Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, ON. May/June, 2023. (With William Gregson)

2022 ‘‘What Can Hegel’s Account of the Family Tell Us Today? The Philosophy of Right on Woman, Love, and Madness”, Prairie Political Science Association, Banff, AB. Sept. 2022.

2022 ‘‘Women, Men, Madness and Hegel’s Account of the Ethical Family: Four Lessons on Inclusive Freedom,’ Canadian Political Science Association (Virtual). May–June 2022.

2022 ‘‘Women, Men, Madness and Hegel’s Account of the Ethical Family: Three Lessons on Inclusive Freedom,’ Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR. (On-line) March 2022.

2021 ‘“I’m Alive! Now What?” On Blueprints, Bucket Lists, & Being at Home’, University of Calgary, Office of Leadership and Student Engagement Last Lecture Series. Invited Lecture (on-line). March 2021.

2020 ‘Hegel and the Pleasant Tragedy of the Family,’ Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA. June 2020. Canceled due to COVID-19.

2019 “The Return of Antigone in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The problem of women, marriage, and the family for Hegel’s architecture of modern freedom”, Prairie Provinces Political Science Association, Banff, AB. September 2019.

2019 ‘Four Problems with Hegel’s Account of the Ethical Family: Antigone’s Revenge on Modernity,’ Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC. June 2019.

2019 Roundtable: ‘Applied Canadian Theory and Canadian Politics’ (with François Rocher, David Laycock, Barbara Arneil, Joshua Goldstein), Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC. June 2019. Invited Presentation.

2019 ‘Freedom’s Problem with the Family: Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Freedom’s Intimate Imaginary,‘ Department of Political Science, University of Calgary, Brown Bag speaker series. April 2019. Invited Talk.

2018 ‘The Problem of Thinking for Love: The legacy of the erotic Socrates for Europe’s philosophers of freedom’, The Apeiron Society for the Practice of Philosophy, Calgary, AB. November 2018. Invited talk.

2018 ‘The Problem of Platonic Erōs in Hegel’s Account of Marital Love’, Prairie Political Science Association, Banff, AB. September 2018.

2018 ‘Falling in Love with Hegel, Rousseau, and Plato: The Problem of Platonic Erōs within the Philosophy of Right and the Emile’, Canadian Political Science Association, Regina, SK. May–June 2018.

2018 ‘Falling in Love with Hegel, Rousseau, and Plato: The Problem of Platonic Erōs within the Philosophy of Right and the Emile’, Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. April 2018.

2018 Panel Discussant for the film “In Dialogue”, Marda Loop Justice Film Festival, Calgary, AB. March 2018.

Oddities of Violence Radio/Podcast Series on CJSW and Apple Podcasts:

In each episode, your Oddities of Violence hosts interview an expert studying terrorism, genocide, or the philosophy of violence, exploring overlooked or under-appreciated examples that challenge how we think about the boundaries of violence. We cover topics ranging from the Peloponnesian War, the anxieties of the Roman Empire, and panic over organized arson in early-modern European, to Jewish anti-Fascist violence, starvation and revolution in Khmer Rouge Cambodia, and the role of “magical thinking” in modern violence, up to new legal interpretations of Indigenous genocide in North America, on-line violent extremism, and the meaning and uses of the idea of the New to make sense of contemporary protest and violence.

Your Hosts are Gavin Cameron, Joshua D. Goldstein, and Maureen Hiebert, all from the Dept. of Political Science at UCalgary. The producer and lead Research Assistant is Alejandra Vivas Suarez.

Listen to the Episodes here: Oddities of Violence – CJSW Radio or Oddities of Violence on Apple Podcasts

Oddities of Violence SSHRC Funded Workshop

Where are the limits to our existing accounts of political violence?

Bringing together a local and international, transdisciplinary group of experts studying terrorism, genocide, and philosophies of violence, our Oddities of Violence workshop hopes to answer this question through what we are calling “oddities of violence”—overlooked or under-appreciated examples of terrorism, genocide, and the philosophy of violence. 

Working at the limits of our understanding of political violence, this workshop opens up new and fruitful research agendas for the study of terrorism, genocide, and the philosophy of violence by putting into dialogue literatures and knowledge that too often exist in parallel. 

The Oddities of Violence workshop takes place over a day-and-a-half (June 8–9, 2023) and is organized into three broad conversations that we call “Genesis”, “Archetype”, and “Novelty”.

Our workshop contributors examine cases of terrorism and genocide as well as philosophies of violence ranging from (Genesis) the Peloponnesian War, the anxieties of the Roman Empire, and panic over organized arson in early-modern European, to (Archetype) Jewish anti-Fascist violence, starvation and revolution in Khmer Rouge Cambodia, and the role of “magical thinking” in modern violence, ending with (Novelty) new legal interpretations of Indigenous genocide in North America, on-line violent extremism, and the meaning and uses of the idea of the New to make sense of contemporary protest and violence.

Joining our contributors will be commentators from the Departments of Classics and Religion, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology from the University of Calgary.

The event is organized and convened by Gavin Cameron, Joshua Goldstein, and Maureen Hiebert of the Department of Political Science.

The Oddities of Violence workshop is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connect Grant program, as well as by the University of Calgary’s Vice-President Research, Faculty of Arts, and Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies. 

More information and the watch the sessions here: Home | Oddities Of Violence