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“If the language of nature is
mute, art seeks to make this muteness
eloquent; art thus exposes itself
to failure through the insurmountable
contradiction between the idea
of making the mute eloquent, which
demands a desperate effort, and
the idea of what this effort would
amount to, the idea of what cannot
in any way be willed.”
Adorno |
Elaine Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Graduate Program
19th and 20th Century Continental
Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminist Theory
B.A. University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill; M.A., Boston College
and Bosphorus University (Istanbul),
Ph.D., DePaul University
I am interested in philosophical
conceptions of nature and art and
how they have influenced conceptions
of subjectivity historically. I approach
my work in eighteenth and nineteenth
century philosophy of nature and art
(particularly in Kant, German Idealism,
and Nietzsche) from the perspective
of questions that originate in feminist
theory and contemporary continental
philosophy. I also do work in aesthetics
and I am interested in the conjunction
of philosophy and literature. I teach
courses in 19th century philosophy,
20th century continental philosophy,
existentialism, aesthetics, feminist
theory, and environmental philosophy.
Email: millerep@muohio.edu
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