Emily Zakin

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook
• B.A. Haverford College

Teaching Interests

I work primarily on questions that arise at the intersection of political philosophy (especially Arendt, Foucault, and Schmitt) and psychoanalysis. I am interested in the psychical forces at work in political formations. I am currently working on a cluster of articles exploring "political realism."

• Political Philosophy
  
• Psychoanalysis
  
• Existentialism

Work In Progress

• "Hannah Arendt's Principled Political Realism"
• "Moral Idealism and Crises of Conscience"
• "Freud and Beauvoir on Fear, Moral Sadism, and Authoritarianism"

Courses Taught

• Arendt
• Foucault
• 20th Century Continental Political Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Political Philosophy
• Existentialism
• Science and Culture

Research Interests

• Political philosophy (especially Arendt, Foucault, and Schmitt)
  
• 20th-century continental philosophy
  
• Psychoanalysis
  
• Feminist Theory

Professional Recognition

• 2018-19 John W. Altman Faculty Fellow

Selected Publications

• “Collective Self-Deception: Democracy and the Pact of Bad Parrhēsia.” In The Post-Truth Condition: Philosophical Reflections. Eds. Simon Truwant and Tarun José Kattumana (forthcoming, Lexington Books).
• Special Issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism on “Feminism Takes on Post-Truth”. Co-edited with Catherine Koekoek. Philosophy and Social Criticism 49:2 (February 2023).
• “Truth, Illusion, and their (Dis)Contents.” In The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 37:1 (2023), 99-116.
• “Public Space, Public Time: Constitution and the Relay of Authority in Arendt’s On Revolution.” In Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule, and Politics. Eds. Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännstroöm, and Panu Minkkinen (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 43-60.
• “Between Past and Future: Truth, Freedom, and Tradition.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt. Eds. Peter Gratton and Yasemin Sari (Bloomsbury Press 2020), 238-48.
• “Between Two Betweens: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Education.” In The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 31:1 (2017), 119-134.
• “The Drama of Independence: Narcissism, Childhood, and the Family Complexes.” In The Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. Eds. Nancy Bauer and Laura Hengehold. (Wiley-Blackwell 2017), 99-110.
• “Criss-Crossing Cosmopolitanism: State-Phobia, World-Alienation, and the Global Soul.” In The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29:1 (2015), 58-72.