Kate Kirkpatrick
@philosofemme.bsky.social
Philosopher, Oxford | Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Feminism, and Religion | katekirkpatrick.co.uk
Also enjoy photography 📸
Also enjoy photography 📸
Thanks also to the Angus Library and Archive @regentsox.bsky.social for welcoming us to visit its first edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (and other works of British women’s political writing): so inspiring!
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Thanks also to the Angus Library and Archive @regentsox.bsky.social for welcoming us to visit its first edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (and other works of British women’s political writing): so inspiring!
After the rain
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
After the rain
This week I hosted some wonderful scholars for an interdisciplinary workshop on r*pe in law and culture. Thanks to @manongarcia.bsky.social @veragraf.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social and all the participants for making it such an enriching and encouraging exchange.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This week I hosted some wonderful scholars for an interdisciplinary workshop on r*pe in law and culture. Thanks to @manongarcia.bsky.social @veragraf.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social and all the participants for making it such an enriching and encouraging exchange.
Last leaves in first light
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Last leaves in first light
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
Luminous limestone
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Luminous limestone
Out this month (for those of you interested in Kierkegaard and French philosophy)
TOC below 👇
TOC below 👇
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Out this month (for those of you interested in Kierkegaard and French philosophy)
TOC below 👇
TOC below 👇
Magdalen Tower from the Thames Path
October 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Magdalen Tower from the Thames Path
Morning light on the first day of term @regentsox.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Morning light on the first day of term @regentsox.bsky.social
Hard copy of this arrived!
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hard copy of this arrived!
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
Oxford was full of people graduating today, which reminded me that it has been 15 years since I started my postgraduate studies—and became a mother.
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
September 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oxford was full of people graduating today, which reminded me that it has been 15 years since I started my postgraduate studies—and became a mother.
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
Wind in a willow
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wind in a willow
11 rue de la Bûcherie
September 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
11 rue de la Bûcherie
A less obstructed window view:
September 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A less obstructed window view:
This morning in Paris a friend surprised me… by taking me to see the place The Second Sex was written!
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This morning in Paris a friend surprised me… by taking me to see the place The Second Sex was written!
It might not make you all quite as jubilant, but this news made my heart jump this week: in April 2026 Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex will be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection—a significant recognition of the work & of feminist philosophy in the cultural canon!
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
It might not make you all quite as jubilant, but this news made my heart jump this week: in April 2026 Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex will be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection—a significant recognition of the work & of feminist philosophy in the cultural canon!
Some new-in-paperback post!
A project I collaborated on with Pamela Sue Anderson and Michèle Le Dœuff, with chapters on feminist discourse, style, The Second Sex, May ‘68, dialogue and solitude, the philosophical imaginary, and more.
Link below to a preview from @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social
A project I collaborated on with Pamela Sue Anderson and Michèle Le Dœuff, with chapters on feminist discourse, style, The Second Sex, May ‘68, dialogue and solitude, the philosophical imaginary, and more.
Link below to a preview from @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Some new-in-paperback post!
A project I collaborated on with Pamela Sue Anderson and Michèle Le Dœuff, with chapters on feminist discourse, style, The Second Sex, May ‘68, dialogue and solitude, the philosophical imaginary, and more.
Link below to a preview from @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social
A project I collaborated on with Pamela Sue Anderson and Michèle Le Dœuff, with chapters on feminist discourse, style, The Second Sex, May ‘68, dialogue and solitude, the philosophical imaginary, and more.
Link below to a preview from @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social
A black swan on the Avon
August 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A black swan on the Avon
Stratford swans at sundown
August 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Stratford swans at sundown
Yes—they are the conference titles. Here is the 1926 image of Sartre in its broader context. Since “empreinte” is “footprint” in the French phrase for “Carbon footprint” I’m tempted to render this title “The Christian footprint: How is it recognizable? Is it disappearing?” 👣
July 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yes—they are the conference titles. Here is the 1926 image of Sartre in its broader context. Since “empreinte” is “footprint” in the French phrase for “Carbon footprint” I’m tempted to render this title “The Christian footprint: How is it recognizable? Is it disappearing?” 👣
Daylit doorlights
July 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Daylit doorlights
Some photos of former participants in these cultural colloquia: a very young (pre-Beauvoir) Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricœur, and Gabriel Marcel
July 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Some photos of former participants in these cultural colloquia: a very young (pre-Beauvoir) Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricœur, and Gabriel Marcel
Travelling back to England after a wonderful Colloque de Cerisy on Beauvoir and Sartre. It was the first time Beauvoir’s work has been the focus of a colloquium in this beautiful place where so much philosophical and literary history has happened.
July 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Travelling back to England after a wonderful Colloque de Cerisy on Beauvoir and Sartre. It was the first time Beauvoir’s work has been the focus of a colloquium in this beautiful place where so much philosophical and literary history has happened.