Geraldine Finn
Professor
Philosophy
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Geraldine Finn has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Keele University (England,1969), an M.A. in Philosophy from McMaster University (Canada, 1971), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa (Canada, 1981). She is Professor of Cultural Studies and Philosophy in the School for Studies in Art and Culture, and the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her area of expertise is twentieth century Continental Philosophy and its relevance to contemporary interdisciplinary studies in culture and the arts. She has published widely on a variety of issues at the intersection of philosophy, feminism, music(ology) and cultural studies and is currently working on two book-length studies: There is No Ethics in the Language of Genes , and The Truth in Music .
Research Interest
Jacques Derrida Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction Relation between Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics Writing Mousike Philosophy i.e. Philosophy for/by the Ear Music as a resource for Philosophy
Publications
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Limited Edition. Voices of Women, Voices of Feminism . (Halifax: Fernwood Books, 1993), editor.
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Who Is This ‘We’? Absence of Community . ( Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1994) co-edited with Eleanor Godway.
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Why Althusser Killed His Wife. Essays on Discourse and Violence (New Jersey: Humanities, 1996.
