Nagl-Docekal, Herta 1944-

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NAGL-DOCEKAL, Herta 1944-

PERSONAL: Born May 29, 1944, in Wels, Austria; daughter of Friedrich (an engineer) and Anna (a homemaker; maiden name, Kirchmayr) Docekal; married Ludwig Nagl (a university professor), April 10, 1970. Education: University of Vienna, Ph.D., 1967.

ADDRESSES: Home—82 Weimarerstrasse, A-1190 Vienna, Austria. Office—Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Universitätsstrasse 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; fax: +431-4277-47492. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, currently professor of philosophy. Millersville University, adjunct professor, 1980; visiting professor at University of Utrecht, 1990-91, University of Frankfurt, 1991-92, University of Konstanz, 1993, Free University of Berlin, 1994-95, and University of Innsbruck, 2000-01; University of Calgary, visiting scholar, 1999.

MEMBER: Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophy, International Association of Women Philosophers (member of board of directors, 1989-96), Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung, Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft, Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie (Austrian section), European Forum Alpbach, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Society for Philosophy (vice president, 1996-98), Society for Women in Philosophy, Institute of Human Sciences (Vienna; member of board of directors, 1993—), Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut am Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen (member of board of directors, 1998—), Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland (member of board of directors, 1994-2000).

AWARDS, HONORS: Förderungspreis, City of Vienna, Austria, 1983; Käthe Leichter prize, State of Austria, 1997.

WRITINGS:

IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

(Editor, with Cornelia Klinger, and contributor) Continental Philosophy in Feminist Perspective: Rereading the Canon in German, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 2000.

Feministische Philosophie: Ergebnisse, Probleme, Perspektiven, S. Fischer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 2000, 2nd edition, 2001, translation published as Feminist Philosophy, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Biopolitics: The Politics of the Body, Race, and Nature, edited by Agnes Heller and Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Avebury (Aldershot, England), 1995; The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, Open Court (Chicago, IL), 1997; Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, edited by Robin May Schott, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 1998; A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Iris M. Young, Blackwell (Oxford, England), 1998; and Rethinking Modernity:Philosophy, Values, Gender, edited by Yvanka B. Raynova, Institut für Axiologische Forschung (Vienna, Austria), 2002. Contributor to periodicals, including Philosophy and Social Criticism and Hypatia. Member of editorial board, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: International Forum, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, and European Journal of Women's Studies.

IN GERMAN

Ernst von Lasaulx: Ein Beitrag zur Kritik des organischen Geschichtsbefriffs, Aschendorff (Münster, Germany), 1970.

Die Objektivität der Geschichtswissenschaft: Systematische Untersuchungen zum wissenschaftlichen Status der Historie, Oldenbourg (Vienna, Austria), 1982.

(Editor) Überlieferung und Aufgabe: Festschrift für Erich Heintel zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Braumueller (Vienna, Austria), 1982.

(Editor, with Franz M. Wimmer, and contributor) Neue Ansätze in der Geschichtswissenschaft, Verband der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs (Vienna, Austria), 1984.

(Editor, with Helmuth Vetter, and contributor) Tod des Subjekts? Oldenbourg (Vienna, Austria), 1987.

(Editor and contributor) Ludwig Wittgenstein und die Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Miscellanea Bulgarica (Vienna, Austria), 1989.

(Editor and contributor) Feministische Philosophie, Oldenbourg (Vienna, Austria), 1990.

(Editor, with Herlinde Pauer-Studer) Denken der Geschlechterdifferenz, Wiener Frauenverlag (Vienna, Austria), 1990.

(Editor, with Franz M. Wimmer, and contributor) Postkoloniales Philosophieren: Afrika, Oldenbourg (Vienna, Austria), 1992.

(Editor, with Herlinde Pauer-Studer, and contributor) Jenseits der Geschlechtermoral: Beiträge zur feministischen Ethik, S. Fischer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1993.

(Editor) Der Sinn des Historischen: Geschichtsphilosophische Debatten, M. Fischer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1996.

(Editor, with Herlinde Pauer-Studer, and contributor) Politische Theorie: Differenz und Lebensqualität: Beiträge zur feministischen politischen Philosophie, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1996.

(Editor, with Herlinde Pauer-Studer, and contributor) Freiheit, Gleichheit und Autonomie, Oldenbourg (Vienna, Austria), 2002.

Coeditor of book series published in Germany and Austria. Contributor to books. Contributor to scholarly journals. Coeditor or member of editorial board of various German-language periodicals.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on contemporary philosophy of history.

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