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BIOGRAPHY

Ruth Ronen is a professor in the Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University.

Ruth Ronen’s research is interdisciplinary, aiming to analyze the migration of concepts between philosophy, literary theory and psychoanalytic thought. Her early projects focused on the migration of philosophical concepts into literary theory and vice versa. A major publication in this context was her book, Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Cambridge, 1994), which explored how possible worlds semantics and logic influenced the way fiction and literary worlds were theorized. Subsequent publications examined the theoretical significance of concepts such as ‘space,’ ‘time,’ ‘description,’ and ‘plot’ within narrative theory and narratology.

She later moved to investigate productive points of intersection between the psychoanalytic thought of Freud and Lacan and specific philosophical concerns regarding art. Her first project integrated fundamental aesthetic concepts (like beauty, the sublime, the genius and pleasure) into a systematic philosophy of art informed by psychoanalysis, culminating in her books The Aesthetics of Anxiety (SUNY, 2009) and Art and its Discontents (2010, in Hebrew). In another project, she examined concepts of regularity and lawfulness in aesthetic theory, relating them to the psychoanalytic understanding of ethics and the role of law, resulting in Art Before the Law (Toronto UP, 2014).

Her next project aimed to conceptualize Lacan’s engagement and use of philosophical texts to provide a framework for understanding this interdisciplinary exchange, resulting in her Lacan with the Philosophers (Toronto UP, 2018).

In recent years, she has focused on the philosophy of death and the philosophical meaning of the Freudian notion of the death drive. This focus on the death drive, has also led her to explore contemporary philosophy and psychoanalytic thought to account for human disavowal of the climate crisis. In view of the severity of the crisis and the human refusal to act upon the crisis’ actual and imminent consequences, she suggests new paths for tackling climate disavowal in terms of human desire and aggressivity.

Ruth Ronen has been a faculty member in the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University since 1985. She served as head of the Philosophy Department from 2014 to 2018 and as head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies from 2020 to 2024.

 

RESEARCH AREAS

PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYTIC THOUGHT, PHILOSOPHY OF ART, CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

 

PUBLICATIONS

A. BOOKS

Ronen, Ruth. Possible Worlds in Literary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Ronen, Ruth. Representing the Real. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2002.

Ronen, Ruth. Aesthetics of Anxiety. SUNY Press, 2009.

Ronen, Ruth. Art before the Law. University of Toronto Press, 2014

Ronen, Ruth. Lacan with the Philosophers, University of Toronto Press, 2018.

B. REFEREED ARTICLES

Ronen, Ruth. "Poetical Coherence in Literary Prose." Style, vol.20, no.1, 1986, pp.66-74.

Ronen, Ruth. "Space in Fiction." Poetics Today, vol.7:3, 1986, pp.421-438.

Ronen, Ruth. "Completing the Incompleteness of Fictional Entities." Poetics Today, vol.9:3, 1988, pp.497-514.

Ronen, Ruth. "The World of Allegory." The Journal of Literary Semantics, XVII/2, 1988, pp. 91-121.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Semiotics of Fictional Time: Three metaphors in the study of

temporality in fiction" Style, 24, No.1, 1990, pp.22-44.

Ronen, Ruth. "La focalisation dans les mondes fictionnels" Poètique, 83, 1990, pp.305-322.

Ronen, Ruth. "Possible Worlds in Literary Theory: An Interdisciplinary Game" Semiotica, 80-3/4, 1990, pp.277-297.

Ronen, Ruth. "Paradigm Shift in Plot models: A View on the History of Narratology". Poetics Today, 11:4, 1990, pp.817-842.

Ronen, Ruth. “Possible Worlds Between the Disciplines". British Journal of Aesthetics, 33:1, 1993, pp.29-40.

Ronen, Ruth. "Philosophical Realism and Postmodern Antirealism" Style 29:2 (special issue: "From Possible Worlds to Virtual Realities"), 1995, pp.184-200.

Ronen, Ruth. "Description, Narrative and Representation". Narrative 5:3, 1997, pp. 274-286.

Ronen, Ruth. “Incommensurability and Representation". Applied Semiotics (Online journal), Issue 5, 1998, pp. 291-302.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Real as Limit to Interpretation”. Semiotica 132-1/2, 2000, pp. 121-135.

Ronen, Ruth and Biberman, Efrat "Who is Deceived by trompe l'oeil?" Analecta Husserliana, 87, 2005, pp. 257-265.

Ronen, Ruth. “Look the Doll in the Eyes: The Uncanny in Contemporary Art”. Psyart (Online journal), 2005.

Ronen, Ruth. “Art and Anxiety, or: Lacan with Joyce”, Return A Journal of Lacanian Studies, volume 2, 2005, pp. 143-156.

Ronen, Ruth and Biberman, Efrat. “The Truth about Narrative, or: How Does Narrative matter?” Philosophy and Literature 30:1, 2006, pp. 118-139.

Ronen, Ruth. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Vanishing Genius". Literature and Aesthetics 16:1, 2006, pp. 37-58.

Ronen, Ruth. “Dying of Shame, Consumed by Anxiety”. Hurly-Burly, vol. 4, 2010, pp.157-166.

Ronen, Ruth. “Lacan and the Philosophical Soul”, Philosophy Today, 2017, vol.61:3, pp. 619-632

Ronen, Ruth. “Aesthetic Community”, Dialogue, 2021, pp. 1-18.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Actuality of the World: What ceases not to be written”, Filozofski vestnik. 2021:2, pp. 93-112.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Affirmation of Death” in: “Philosophy and Death – Special Issue” Angelaki, 27:1, 2022, pp. 47-59.

  Ronen, Ruth and Cohen, Rona. “After Life: Recent Philosophy and Death”. in: “Philosophy and Death – Special Issue” Angelaki 27:1, 2022, pp. 1-7.

 Ronen, Ruth. “The Real Grounds of Causal Relations: Between Kant and  Lacan”. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology,  forthcoming..

C. REFEREED ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS

Ronen, Ruth. "Ambiguity in Literary Conceptualizations: The Case of 'World'" In: E.Ibsch, D. Schram & G.Steen (eds.) Empirical Studies of Literature. Amsterdam. Atlanta, GA, 1991.pp. 397-404.

Ronen, Ruth. "Are Fictonal Worlds Possible?" in: C. Mihailescu and W.Hamarneh (eds.) Fiction Updated: The Theory of Fictionality and Contemporary Humanities. University of Toronto Press, 1996, pp. 21-29.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Impossible World of Representation”. Art and Representation: Contributions to Contemporary Aesthetics (ed.A.C. Sukla). Greenwood Press, 2001, pp.101-112.

Ronen, Ruth. “Realism, Theories of”. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, 2005

Ronen, Ruth. “Love of Truth, True Love and the Truth about Love”, In: Figures of the Unconscious, E. Dorfman & J. De Vleminck (eds.), Leuven University Press, 2010, pp. 83-95.

Ronen, Ruth. "Des mondes possibles au-delà au principe de vérité". In: La théorie littéraire des mondes possibles, Françoise Lavocat (ed.). Presses du CNRS, 2010, pp. 189-202.

Ronen, Ruth. “Crossing the Aesthetic Regime”, in: A. Weiberg & S. Majetschak (eds.) Aesthetics Today, 2017, De Gruyter, pp. 139-152.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Story of the Law”, Z. Dinnen and R. Warhol (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories, 2018, pp.375-388.

Ronen, Ruth. “The Invisible in/of the Dancing Body”. in: Wengrower, H. and Chaiklin, S. International Perspectives on Dance Movement Therapy: Dance and Creative Process in Theory, Research and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 46-57.

Ronen, Ruth. “Possible Worlds”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2020, pp. 1- 26.

D. HEBREW PUBLICATIONS:

Ronen, Ruth. “Representation without an Object: Abstract Painting”. Iyuun 52, 2003. 

Ronen, Ruth. Art and Its Discontents. Am-Oved Publishers, 2010.

Ronen, Ruth. “On the Surrealist Image and the portmanteau”. Erev-Rav, 2013 (online journal).

Ronen, Ruth. Lacan with the Philosophers. Tel Aviv University Publishers, 2015.

Ronen, Ruth, “Hamlet’s Melancholy”, Mikan, Ben-Gurion University and Dvir Publishers, 2019, pp.190-205.

Ronen, Ruth and Cohen, Rona. “Introduction” to the translation of Jean-Luc Nancy Corpus. Resling Publishers, 2021. Pp. 9-25.