Publications

Collected Works of Eleanor Godway, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Central Connecticut State University

This page lists Eleanor Godway’s published and presented works, grouped by research theme. For a thematic view, explore the Research Topics section.

John Macmurray

  • Love, Fear and Freedom
  • THINKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT
  • THE CRISIS OF THE PERSONAL
  • The Crisis of the Personal: Macmurray, Postmodernism and the Challenge of Philosophy Today
  • Surrender and Catch and the Question of Reason: Kurt Wolff and John Macmurray
  • Render unto Caesar
  • The Logic of Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty and Macmurray
  • Chiasmatic Encounter: Merleau-Ponty and Macmurray. Intertwining Giving Birth to Meaning and Truth
  • John Macmurray and Kurt Wolff: two thinkers who integrate ethics and epistemology
  • Writing Aesthetics: the Aesthetic Writ Large. John Macmurray’s theory of art and its implications for history
  • John Macmurray and Edmund Husserl: Two Philosophers for a Time of Cris
  • John Macmurray and epistemology
  • John Macmurray’s Account of the Logic of the Personal as a commentary on Derrida’s ‘messianic structure,

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • The World as One Action
  • The Difference between Poetry and Rhetoric…: And Between Art and Advertising, Performative and Performance, the Real and the Role
  • Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity and Truth: Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, Irigaray and la conscience métaphysique et morale
  • Alternative Ontology in Practice: Experiences with the Lived Body, Intersubjectivity and Healing
  • “The Being Which is Behind Us”: Merleau-Ponty and the Question of Nature
  • The Violence of Doing Good
  • Private Scholars – Public Intellectuals: can these be separated?
  • Phenomenology and the Frontiers of Experience: Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray
  • Wild Being, the Pre-predicative and Expression: How Merleau-Ponty Uses Phenomenology to Develop an Ontology
  • Towards a phenomenology of politics: expression and praxis
  • Perception and Dialectic
  • Anomalous Experiences with Twenty-First Century Bodies (presentation)
  • The Logic of Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty and Macmurray (presentation)
  • Deconstruction and the Epoche: reflections on sight after an experience with retinal surgery (presentation)

Kurt Wolff

  • Surrender and Catch and the Question of Reason: Kurt Wolff and John Macmurray
  • Foreword to What It Contains by Kurt H. Wolff (New York: Lexington Books, 2002)
  • Surrender and Catch and the Question of Reason (in The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt Wolff’s Existential Turn, 2007)
  • John Macmurray and Kurt Wolff: two thinkers who integrate ethics and epistemology

Luce Irigaray

  • Phenomenology and the Frontiers of Experience: Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray
  • Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity and Truth: Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, Irigaray and la conscience métaphysique et morale

Gayatri Spivak

  • Deconstructing Privilege: Reflecting on Audre Lorde and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (in Who Is This “We”? Absence of Community, 1994)

Religion

  • Faith and Knowledge in Crisis (in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture, Vol. 27 No. 2, Spring 1992)
  • Interim Faith and Practice of New England Yearly Meeting (2014 committee publication)

Essays & General

  • The Meaning of the Rivercube
  • Art as the Truth of Tomorrow: Expression and the Healing of the World
  • Art, Perception and Holography
  • The Violence of Doing Good
  • Private Scholars – Public Intellectuals: can these be separated?
  • Towards a Phenomenology of Politics: Expression and Praxis
  • Thinking About Development: The Lived Reality of Globalization