Staying Alive: A Response to Alison Stone and Stephen Frosh

ABSTRACT

Alison Stone and Stephen Frosh (this issue) offered in their discussions alternative ways to read the story of Lot’s wife and through these readings have raised important questions as to how theoretical writing can intervene in cultural processes. Enriched by Stone’s suggestions, I further elaborate on the thesis that nonmatricidal relations should be thought as a transformative process, a process that integrates concrete social location with relational foundations. Following Frosh’s critique, I elaborate on the political meaning of the notion of grounded interpretation.

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Miri Rozmarin

Miri Rozmarin, Ph.D., teaches at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in the Gender Studies Program. Her research and publications concern a range of topics in feminist philosophy, critical theory, and contemporary postliberal ethics. Her first book, titled Creating Oneself (Peter Lang, 2011), addresses the question of agency in a postmodern world. Her upcoming book Vulnerable Futures, Transformative Pasts (Peter Lang) aims to provide an account of the ethical significance of vulnerability as a basis for transformative lineages.