Academic Essays
Examples of academic essays written during BA (Hons) at University of Sussex (2011 - 2014).
These essays reflect my core interests in Continental Philosophy, Russian Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminism and Cultural Theory.
Some essays have been released in full on Academia.eu.
‘Hegel, the Russian spirit and the philosophy of Nicolai Berdyaev’, 2014
Final year dissertation on the impact of Hegelian philosophy on Russian intellectual thought, awarded highest ranking Continental dissertation in the graduating class of 2014. (3,000 words)
‘Heidegger on looking at still life’, 2014
Final year dissertation, understanding art and how to look at paintings through the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. (3,000 words)
Exploring the concept of the ‘aporetic’ within the work of Jacques Derrida. (2,000 words)
I argue that since Heidegger’s thinking is a passage, both a movement towards and from, therefore any understanding of Heidegger’s statements must be considered with this understanding in mind. (1,500 words)
‘Is there anything all women have in common?’, 2013
Discussing the gender realism (Elizabeth Spelman) and nominalism (Mari Mikkola) debate as found in feminist philosophy. (1,000 words)
‘What is the significance of the mathematization of nature?’, 2013
Shedding light on Edmund Husserl’s exposition in ‘The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology’ (1936), on the mathematization of nature as set forth by Galileo. (1,000 words)
‘Does Richard Wollheim present a decisive objection to the Institutional Theory of Art?’, 2013
A discussion of Richard Wollheim’s objection to the Institutional Theory of Art as found in his 1980 essay, ‘The Institutional Theory of Art’. (1,000 words)
‘What is the difference between power and authority’, 2012
Discussing the definitions of power and authority as given by Max Weber and Michel Foucault. (2,000 words)
‘Critique of Pure Reason and why metaphysics needs one’, 2011
After Immanuel Kant wrote ‘The Critique of Pure Reason’ in 1871, Western metaphysics was never the same. (500 words)
‘What can we learn about Socratic ethics from the Laches’, 2011 (500 words)