Kristen Brown Golden

My research focuses on philosophy of race, embodiment, contemporary European philosophy and existentialism. My paper “White Privilege: Unconscious Racism, Freud and Neuroscience of Implicit Racial Bias” was published in the journal Critical Philosophy of Race (2021). Currently, I am working on intersections between the thought of Black existentialist philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, and theory of racial colorblindness. Named after the practice of people believing they “don’t see color,” “colorblindness” refers to avoiding, not seeing, or denying race-based inequalities. This angle — spoken and affective responses to interracial interaction — extends my earlier work on embodiment in 19th and 20th century philosophy of Europe. Highlights of my earlier work include my book “Nietzsche and Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism” (2006) and my co-edited book, “The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues” (2009), both published by State University of New York Press. My publications also include themes in phenomenology, feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Aristotle and the Presocratics. In 2015, I was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant to create a course on the question “Is Peace Possible?” I live in Jackson with my husband, Bruce Golden, and daughters, Chelsea and Harper.