Kate Soper
Kate Soper has taught philosophy and critical theory at London Metropolitan University since 1987 and is a Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages. She previously taught at the University of Sussex and has worked as a journalist and as a translator from Italian and French. She has had a long-standing association with Radical Philosophy, and has been on the editorial committee of New Left Review. She is also a regular columnist for the US journal 'Capitalism, Nature, Socialism'.
Kate's current research interests include: theory of needs and consumption; environmental philosophy and aesthetics of nature; gender and philosophy; feminism and enlightenment; cultural theory.
Email: k.soper@londonmet.ac.uk
'War and Democracy' in Radical Philosophy, No 120, July-August (2003)
'Realism, Humanism and the Politics of Nature' in Radical Philosophy, No 102, July-August (2000)
‘Despairing of Happiness: the Redeeming Dialectic of the Frankfurt School’ in New Formations, Vol 38 (1999).
'Privileged Gazes and Ordinary Affections; Reflections on the Politics of Landscape' in Mark Dorrian and Gillian Rose (eds) Landscape and Politics (Black Dog, 2003)
'Feminism, Liberalism, Enlightenment' in the Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism (Edinburgh UP, 2001)
‘Forget Foucault’ in K. Racevskis (ed) Critical Essays on Michel Foucault (Ohio University Press, 1999)
‘Nature/Nature’ in L. Tickner et al Future Natural (Routledge, 1996)
Kate's current research interests include: theory of needs and consumption; environmental philosophy and aesthetics of nature; gender and philosophy; feminism and enlightenment; cultural theory.
Email: k.soper@londonmet.ac.uk
Postgraduate Teaching
MA Modern European Studies
MA Literature and Modernity
Selected Publications
Authored Books
The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently, co-editor with Lyn Thomas and Martin Ryle, Palgrave, 2009
To Relish the Sublime: Culture and Self-realisation in Postmodern Times, (co-authored with Martin Ryle) (London: Verso, 2001)
What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Blackwell, 1995)
Troubled Pleasures, Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism (London: Verso, 1990)
Humanism and Anti-Humanism (Hutchinson, 1986)
On Human Needs (Harvester Press, 1981)
Journal Articles
'Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the Role of Aesthetic Revisioning', Cultural Studies, Vol.22, no. 5, September 2008
'Realism, Naturalism and the Red-Green Nexus: Benton's Critical Contribution to Ecological Theory' in Sandra Moog and Rob Stones, Natural Relations and Human Needs, Essays in Honour of Ted Benton, Routledge, 2009, pp170-184
'Future Culture, Realismus, Humanismum und die Politik der Natur' in Urs Lindner, Jorg Nowak, Pia Paust-Lassen, Philosophieren unter anderen, Verlag Westfalisches Dampfboot, 2008, pp. 54-69
'The Fulfilments of Postconsumerism and the Politics of Renewal', in Pat Devine. ed., Feelbad Britain, Lawrence and Wishart, 2008 (French Translation appearing in Entropia
'Humans, Animals, Machines' in New Formations, No. 49, Spring (2003)
'War and Democracy' in Radical Philosophy, No 120, July-August (2003)
'Realism, Humanism and the Politics of Nature' in Radical Philosophy, No 102, July-August (2000)
‘Despairing of Happiness: the Redeeming Dialectic of the Frankfurt School’ in New Formations, Vol 38 (1999).
Chapters in Edited Books
'Objectivity and the Nature Aesthetic' in M. Archer and B. Outhwaite (eds) Objectivity (Routledge, 2004)'Privileged Gazes and Ordinary Affections; Reflections on the Politics of Landscape' in Mark Dorrian and Gillian Rose (eds) Landscape and Politics (Black Dog, 2003)
'Feminism, Liberalism, Enlightenment' in the Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism (Edinburgh UP, 2001)
‘Forget Foucault’ in K. Racevskis (ed) Critical Essays on Michel Foucault (Ohio University Press, 1999)
‘Nature/Nature’ in L. Tickner et al Future Natural (Routledge, 1996)
Translations
Carlo Ginzburg, Wooden Eyes, (co-translated with Martin Ryle) (London: Verso, 2002)Media
Radio 4, Start the Week, December 2003
Radio 3, Nightwaves, April 2004
Opinion piece on 'The Good Life', New Scientist, October, 2008, p.54
Interviewed on 'alternative hedonism' for 'Philosophy Bites'
Recent Conference Papers and Plenaries
1 November 2008: Plenary address to conference on Post-Colonialism and the Environment, Roehampton University
20/21 December 2008: Concluding address to exhibition and symposium on 'The Animal Gaze', London Metropolitan University
11 December 2008: Seminar on my work hosted by SERG (Society-Environment Research Group), Manchester University
14/15 January 2009: Presented paper to the first Workshop of a joint research project of the University of Liverpool and the KWI (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen University, on the contemporary relevance of the concept of 'Alienation' at the KWI, Essen.
31 January 2009: Presented my text as a writer participating in the AHRC funded 'Edge of a Dream' photography project (Camberwell School of Art and Goldsmiths College) to the Final Open Meeting for the Project, Ben Pimlott Theatre, Goldsmiths http://www.edgeofadream.co.uk
16/20 February 2009: At the Colorado University of the Mines as Hennebach Visiting Professor in the Humanities (giving Public Lecture and Seminars)
11 December 2008: Seminar on my work hosted by SERG (Society-Environment Research Group), Manchester University
14/15 January 2009: Presented paper to the first Workshop of a joint research project of the University of Liverpool and the KWI (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen University, on the contemporary relevance of the concept of 'Alienation' at the KWI, Essen.
31 January 2009: Presented my text as a writer participating in the AHRC funded 'Edge of a Dream' photography project (Camberwell School of Art and Goldsmiths College) to the Final Open Meeting for the Project, Ben Pimlott Theatre, Goldsmiths http://www.edgeofadream.co.uk
16/20 February 2009: At the Colorado University of the Mines as Hennebach Visiting Professor in the Humanities (giving Public Lecture and Seminars)
Forthcoming Talks
13/14 March 2009: Keynote Plenary to the International Conference on 'Gendering, Climate and Sustainability', Copenhagen University (in association with the Climate Change Congress at the University)
13 April 2009: Imperial War Museum: speaking at the conference on 'War and Photography'
23 April 2009: London Metropolitan University: giving a lunchtime seminar to the Sustainability Reading Group, Room 307, Stapleton House.
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