RECENSIONI / Yaron Wolf /
The concern for going beyond established limitations on forms of thought and practice deeply marked Pamela Sue Anderson’s wide-ranging philosophical work. Her radiant personality, her passion for engaged thought which were embodied in her research and teaching, provided a constant source of inspiration for her friends, colleagues, and students, up until her death after a struggle with cancer in early 2017.
Anderson’s contributions included internationally acclaimed publications on feminism, the philosophy of religion, and the integration of both in considering the relations between justice and conceptions of truth. Her unique perspective on these topics combined with a fresh approach to the history of philosophy, and the way it figures in developing new paths for thought today. As a professor at the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy, her research traversed the rigid borders marking off the ‘analytic’ from the ‘continental’ and served to open Oxford, and the Anglophone philosophical world more generally, towards more extensive engagement with the philosophical tradition in exciting ways. Her work, from her doctoral dissertation up until the past decade, included numerous celebrated publications on Ricoeur’s oeuvre. In more recent years, Anderson developed, in both published and yet-unpublished papers, novel lines of thought in relation to Bergson’s philosophy. She stood out from the Oxford philosophical crowd with her reading of both aforementioned thinkers, but the debate was not one-sided. Anderson provoked a new sense of receptivity to the philosophical ‘other’, a development which continues to take shape vigorously today.
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