Kim Q. Hall, "Queering Philosophy" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Why isn’t there a recognized queer sub‑field in philosophy?
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Hello and welcome to New Books and Philosophy, a podcast channel with the New Books Network. I'm Sarah Tyson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver. And I'm co-host of the channel along with Carrie Fichtor, Robert Tleese, and Malcolm Keating. Together we bring you conversations with philosophers about their new books, drawing from a wide range of areas of contemporary philosophical inquiry. Today's interview is with Kim Q Hall, professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University. Her new book, Queering Philosophy, is just out from Roman and Littlefield. Why isn't there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in queer philosophy?
What would it mean to care queerly for philosophy? And how might that change not only the field, but the possibilities for living? These are just some of the questions raised by Hall in Queering Philosophy. Hall diagnoses philosophy's straight habits and shows how an intersectional approach to queering philosophy can allow us to practice philosophy otherwise. By building a promiscuous archive to think along with many questioners of dominant norms, Hall argues for a pursuit of wisdom that is relational, experimental, and attuned to other ways of life. Kim Q Hall, welcome to New Books in Philosophy.
Thanks so much, Sarah. I'm very happy to be here.
It's great to have you. So let's start off with with you. Um, what is your background as a philosopher and how'd you come to write this book on querying philosophy?
Yeah, so I when I was an undergraduate student, I had no idea when I began undergraduate studies, I'd had no idea what philosophy was. Um I started out as a pre med major. And uh I I just thought that you know, school was something that one had to do to get a job at the end of it. Um and that there were only as far as my family was concerned. Certain things, um that one should study in college. Uh one of those was medicine, the other was law and another one uh uh would be business. So I tried the uh pre med route and that really didn't work out uh for me. I you know, I'm now I'm interested in ecological questions and other kinds of of questions to do with science, but I really wasn't um the way I guess
you know, i science was approached in the classroom wasn't something that really grabbed me, and but I ended up taking a philosophy class. And um And I that just really blew me away. Uh I had I didn't realize that there was there were all kinds of people who had written continue to write and and talk about these ideas, right, and these questions. And it was reading uh Simone de Beauvoir and Angela Davis in particular that
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Chapters
8 chapters
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Why isn’t there a recognized queer sub‑field in philosophy?
0:00–8:09
2
How did Kim Q. Hall’s personal and academic background lead her to write *Queering Philosophy*?
8:09–15:34
3
What institutional habits keep philosophy “straight” and exclude queer perspectives?
15:34–23:08
4
How does “queering philosophy” propose a relational, experimental way of doing philosophy?
23:08–28:58
5
Why is humility a central virtue in queer epistemology and “queering” knowledge?
28:58–34:56
6
How does queer ethics confront power, life, and death in the context of biopolitics and necropolitics?
34:56–40:08
7
In what ways does queer ecology challenge traditional environmental philosophy and climate thinking?
40:08–46:14
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What new research projects is Kim Q. Hall pursuing after the book?
46:14–57:31
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