Professor Beatrice Han-Pile
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872532
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Location
6.123, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
See office door
Profile
Biography
Béatrice studied philosophy, history and literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and was awarded a Fellowship from the Thiers Foundation while completing her doctoral thesis on Michel Foucault. Before coming to Essex, she taught in France at the Universities of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Reims and Amiens. She was invited as a Visiting Scholar twice by the University of California (Berkeley), and by the Université de Nice (France). She is the author of L'ontologie manquée de Michel Foucault (published in the autumn of 2002 by Stanford University Press as Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical). She has published various papers, mostly on Foucault, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger and aesthetics. She is currently Principal Investigator on a three year AHRC-funded project on The Ethics of Powerlessness: the Theological Virtues Today (EoP). The project will run for three years from 1 July 2015 and include a number of workshops and conferences. It will investigate the meaning and appropriateness of the strict division between agents and patients, the nature of medio-passive agency as well as the possible roles of the theological virtues for ethical guidance in situations of powerlessness. In recent years she has given papers at a number of universities, including Warwick, Sussex, Dundee, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, The Wesleyan, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Brigham Young, Chicago, Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux (etc) and at various sessions of the APA (including Boston, Philadelphia, Arlington) SPEP and the ISPS (International Society for Phenomenological Studies).
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Agency, medio-passivity and the theological virtues
Foucault and XXth century philosophy, in particular phenomenology
Current research
Various papers, mostly on Nietzsche, Foucault and Heidegger
Conferences and presentations
What does acting medio-passively consist in?
Aristotelian Society, London, United Kingdom, 17/6/2019
What does it mean to love life for Nietzsche?
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, International Society for Nietzsche Studies, Brown, Providence, United States, 31/5/2019
Seminars on Powerlessness
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Santa Barbara, United States, 10/4/2019
Seminar on Foucault
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, workshop around my work, Middletown, United States, 12/4/2018
Foucault on Anthropology
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Conference on Foucault, Cambridge, United States, 15/4/2015
Nietzsche and the Affirmation of Life
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Meeting of the ASEP, Berkeley, United States, 15/4/2015
Seminars on Foucault
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Ramat Gan, Israel, 17/4/2014
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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MA Writing Workshop (PY951)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 13/8/2024
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 19/10/2022
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/1/2021
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/4/2020
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/11/2018
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 3/10/2018
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/2/2018
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/7/2017
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/1/2016
Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 26/8/2015
Publications
Journal articles (11)
HAN-PILE, B., 'I suffered my deeds more than I acted them': Hegel on Sophocles' Oedipus plays'. Hegel Bulletin
Han-Pile, B., (2021). Two puzzles in the Early Christian Constitution of the Self: Reflections on Agency in Foucault’s interpretation of Cassian. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 120 (3), 329-347
Han-Pile, B., (2020). 'The Doing is Everything': A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency In Nietzsche. Inquiry. 63 (1), 42-64
Han-Pile, B., (2017). Hope, Powerlessness, and Agency. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 41 (1), 175-201
Han-Pile, B., (2016). Phenomenology and Anthropology in Foucault's Introduction to Binswanger's 'Dream and Existence': a Mirror Image to The Order of Things?. History and Theory. 55 (4), 7-22
Han-Pile, B., (2016). Foucault, normativity and critique as a practice of the self. Continental Philosophy Review. 49 (1), 85-101
Han-Pile, B., (2009). Nietzsche and Amor Fati. European Journal of Philosophy. 19 (2), 224-261
Han-Pile, B., (2009). Review of Michel Foucault, Introduction à l'Anthropologie (published in one volume with Foucault's translation of Emmanuel Kant's Anthropologie d'un point de vue pragmatique). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Han-Pile, B., (2009). Transcendental Aspects, Ontological Commitments and Naturalistic Elements in Nietzsche's Thought. Inquiry. 52 (2), 179-214
Han-Pile, B., (2006). Nietzsche's Metaphysics in the Birth of Tragedy. European Journal of Philosophy. 14 (3), 373-403
Han-Pile, B., (2005). Is early Foucault a historian? History, history and the analytic of finitude. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 31 (5-6), 585-608
Books (1)
Han, B., (2002). Foucault's Critical Project Between the Transcendental and the Historical. Stanford University Press. 0804737096. 9780804737098
Book chapters (11)
Han-Pile, B. and Stern, R., (2024). Is Hope a Secular Virtue? Hope as the Virtue of the Possible. In: THe Virtue of Hope. Editors: Snow, NE., . Oxford University Press (OUP). 73- 108. 0190069570. 9780190069612
Han-Pile, B., (2018). Nietzsche and the Affirmation of Life. In: The Nietzschean Mind. Editors: Katsafanas, P., . Routledge. 448- 468. 9781138851689
Han-Pile, HB., (2017). The Analytic of Finitude. In: The Kantian Catastrophe? Conversations on Finitude and the Limits of Philosophy. Editors: Morgan, A., . Biggbooks.co.uk. 119- 136. 9781999841300
Han-Pile, B., (2015). Transcendental Aspects, Ontological Commitments, and Naturalistic Elements in Nietzsche's Thought. In: The Transcendental Turn. Editors: Gardner, S. and Grist, M., . Oxford University Press. 195- 227. 9780198724872
Han-Pile, B., (2013). Freedom and the choice to choose oneself in Being and Time. In: The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time'. Editors: Wrathall, MA., . Cambridge University Press. 291- 319. 9780521895958
Han-Pile, B., (2013). “Let that be my love”: Fate, Mediopassivity, and Redemption in Nietzsche’s Thought. In: Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Teaching: For Individuals and Culture. 217- 234
Han-Pile, B., (2011). Describing Reality or Disclosing Worldhood: Vermeer and Heidegger. In: Art and Phenomenology. Editors: Parry, J., . Routledge. 138- 161. 9780415774499
Han-Pile, B., (2010). The 'Death of Man': Foucault and Anti-Humanism. In: Foucault and Philosophy. Editors: O'Leary, T. and Falzon, C., . Blackwell. 118- 143. 1405189606. 9781405189606
Han-Pile, B., (2007). Affectivity. In: A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 240- 252. 9781405110778
Han-Pile, B. and Pile, E., (2005). The Analytic of Finitude and the History of Subjectivity. In: The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Editors: Gutting, G., . Cambridge University Press. 176- 209. 9780521840828
Han-Pile, B., (2005). Early Heidegger's Appropriation of Kant. In: A Companion to Heidegger. Editors: Dreyfus, HL. and Wrathall, MA., . Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 80- 101. 9781405110921
Reports and Papers (1)
Michalowski, S., Han-Pile, B., Serôdio Mendes, F., Carniato, B. and Martin, W., (2020). Triage in the COVID-19 Pandemic Bioethical and Human Rights Considerations
Grants and funding
2014
The Ethics of Powerlessness: The Theological Virtues Today
Arts And Humanities Research Council
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