"What does it mean to think with others even if, or particularly when, our living conditions may not be conducive to thought?"

"We may not like limits. They may frustrate us. But it is, arguably, only through embracing them that we can eke meaning out of existence."

"To live in hopeless times is not only subjectively to feel hopeless. It is for that feeling in a real way to reflect the way things are."

"Philosophy, including and perhaps especially, public philosophy, is often best done in dialogue, as Socrates well knew."

"Epistemic vices are fundamentally failures of our inner life, failures to relate or respond to epistemic values and ideals."

"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."

"To the extent that desire is erotic, what would theories of desire be if women were makers, rather than bearers, of meaning?"

"The Platonic/Cartesian formulation captures an abiding element of human experience; the body can be a prison from which we long to be free"

"What I will seek, then, is to uncover something about the underlying mentality that exemplifies the ideal of an unalienated life."

"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

"There is a deep-rooted folk concept of the human organism, which assumes that our bodies are pure and uncontaminated by outside matter."

"Before anything can be, there must be made nothing; prior to this contraction, nothing is not – where, after all, would it be?"