Rachel Fraser

Like many women, Simone Weil had a difficult relationship with food. When she was six months old, her mother fell ill; in adulthood, Weil would joke that she had been poisoned by her sick mother’s milk. Weil was weaned at eleven months old, but she stubbornly refused to eat off a spoon; her mother fed her mush, to be sucked from a bottle, until she was two.

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations of philosophy’s personal, institutional, and disciplinary evolution that will also help young academics and students navigate philosophy today. What passport do you have?

Animals require a politics of labor