Emilia Angelova, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Professor Angelova earned a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Sofia University (Bulgaria), and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

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Her main interests are 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Heidegger, Derrida, French Feminist theory) and Kant, with a focus on time, imagination and the aesthetic. Her other interests include 19th Century Continental philosophy (Hegel and Marx) and poststructuralist ethics.

Her research focuses on problems of the constitution of self, singularity and subjectivity in 20th C Continental philosophy.  Recent work has been directed to study of continuations of themes raised by Kant (and Hegel) and how these are transformed or not by the new mode of questioning opened up by Heidegger, surrounding ideas  about the death of God, the end of history, alterity and multiplicity.  In 2007-08 she was the recipient of Trent's Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Recent Publications:

Forthcoming 2011. “Time’s Disquiet and Unrest: Affinity Between Heidegger and Levinas.”  In: Between Heidegger and Levinas. Eds. John Drabinski and Eric Sean Nelson. State University of New York Press (SUNY).

Forthcoming 2011. Review of" Reading Kant’s Geography", eds. Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta. In: Comparative and Continental Philosophy.

“Desubjectivation of Time and Self-Affection: Kant in Heidegger.” In: Kant-Akten. Proceedings of the XI International Kant-Kongress, Vol., Pisa 2010. Forthcoming.
“Utopia, Metontology, and the Sociality of the Other: Levinas, Heidegger and Bloch.” In: Journal of Contemporary Thought. 31 (Summer 2010): 171-191.
“A Continuity Between the A and B Deductions of the Critique: Revisiting Heidegger’s Reading of Kant.” In: Idealistic Studies. Vol. 39:1-3 (Spring-Summer-Fall 2009): 53-71.
“Time’s Unrest and Disquiet: Between Heidegger and Levinas.” In: Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle (2009): 101-113.
“Continental Feminist Philosophy.” In: The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies. Ed. Constantin V. Boundas. Columbia University Press and Edinburgh University Press. 2007. pp. 590-602.
“Quasi-Cause in Deleuze: Inverting the Body Without Organs.” In: Symposium: The Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy. 10 (2006): 117-133.