Amia Srinivasan

Dzieła

• 2021Prawo do seksu (The Right to Sex)

  Eseje o polityce seksu: nikt nie ma prawa do seksu, lecz to, kto jest pożądany, a kto nie, kształtuje polityka i zasługuje to na krytyczny namysł – od zgody po pornografię i pracę seksualną.

Stanowisko

Srinivasan began in epistemology. She defended Williamson’s argument that no non-trivial condition is “luminous”, always knowable when it obtains, and developed a “radical externalism”, motivated in part by people whose beliefs are shaped by racism or class position in ways they cannot detect from the inside. In “The Aptness of Anger” she argues that the anger of the oppressed can be apt – a fitting response to real wrongs – even when it is counterproductive, so that being forced to choose between apt anger and prudence is itself an “affective injustice”. Her work on genealogy asks what follows for our beliefs when we learn that they have contingent social origins. “The Right to Sex” brought her a wide readership. Its title essay, prompted by a misogynist killing by a self-described “incel”, argues that no one has a right to sex, yet that sexual desire is shaped by politics – by hierarchies of race, body, disability and gender – and should be examined critically without being policed. Other essays address pornography, relationships between teachers and students, and feminists’ reliance on prisons and police, which she criticises as “carceral feminism”.

Życie i kontekst

Amia Srinivasan (born 1984 in Bahrain to Indian parents) grew up in Taiwan, Singapore, New York and London. She studied philosophy at Yale and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she took her doctorate in 2014 with a thesis on luminosity, normativity and metaphilosophy supervised by John Hawthorne and Timothy Williamson. She was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, taught at University College London and at St John’s College, Oxford, and in 2020 became Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls – the first woman and the first person of colour to hold the chair. She is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Are We Luminous? (2015)
• The Aptness of Anger (2018)
• Genealogy, Epistemology and Worldmaking (2019)
• Radical Externalism (2020)

Pojawia się w

• Debata „Czynić jak najwięcej dobra? Efektywny altruizm i długoterminizm”