Kate Soper | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA); Sussex University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
Kate Soper (born 1943) is a Britishphilosopher.[1] She is currently Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Brighton.[2]
Soper was educated at theUniversity of Oxford (BA) and worked as a translator and journalist. Her PhD was fromSussex University titledMarxism and the Theory of Needs. She taught at Sussex University, before moving in 1987 to theUniversity of North London (which became part ofLondon Metropolitan University in 2002). She taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in European Studies and Literature and Modernity.She retired c.2009, becoming Emeritus Professor.
Soper is the author of and contributor to over a dozen books onfeminism andContinental Philosophy, addressing the works ofJean-Paul Sartre,Karl Marx andSimone de Beauvoir, among others. Her other contributions have been to consumption theory and environmental philosophy. She is a critic of post-structuralist feminism.
She has also translated several texts into English, including includes Chiodi'sSartre And Marxism,Sebastiano Timpanaro'sThe Freudian Slip,Bobbio'sLiberalism and Democracy (with Martin Ryle), and (with Martin Ryle) Ginzburg'sWooden Eyes.[2]
She has been involved in severalenvironmentalist and peace movements in both theUnited Kingdom and the rest ofEurope and her writing addresses radicalecological issues.[3][4] Her contributions have appeared in the journalsRadical Philosophy,New Left Review andCapitalism, Nature, Socialism. In 1998, Soper interviewedNoam Chomsky. Her study of the role that new thinking about pleasure and the "good life" can play in promoting sustainable consumption (Alternative hedonism and the theory and politics of consumption) was funded in the ESRC/AHRC "Cultures of Consumption" Programme in the mid-2000s.[5][6]
Her other work includes radio and television appearances (Dinner with Portillo, Channel Five, December 2005: Radio 3,Nightwaves, April 2004), and a number of exhibitions.[7]
