James Sares | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

James Sares

Lecturer

I research at the intersection between the history of modern philosophy and contemporary continental philosophy, with a specialization in Hegel and phenomenology. The guiding theme of my work is time--what time is and how we experience it. My first monograph, The Impossibility of Time: Hegel and the Antinomies of Pure Reason, is under contract with Bloomsbury, and I am currently working on my next book project, which develops a dialectical phenomenology with figures including Hegel, Husserl, Sartre, and Irigaray.

Contact Information

james.sares@uky.edu

1415 Patterson Office Tower

859-257-1862

Education

2022 Ph.D., Philosophy, Stony Brook University
2021–2022 Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Trier University
2016 M.Phil., Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2015 M.A., Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2012 A.B., Anthropology, Harvard University

Research Interests

History of Modern Philosophy
Phenomenology
feminist philosophy

Affiliations

Philosophy
Gender and Women's Studies

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Monograph

The Impossibility of Time: Hegel and the Antinomies of Pure Reason. Forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic, June 2026.

Edited Volumes

New Readings of Hegel's Dialectic: Truth, Method, and the Plasticity of Sense. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.

Topologies of Sexual Difference: Space in Philosophy and Visual Art After Irigaray, with Louise Burchill and Rebecca Hill. State University of New York Press, 2025.

What is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, with Mary C. Rawlinson. Columbia University Press, 2023.

Refereed Articles (selected)

"Beyond the Neuter Universal: Hegel and Sexual Difference." Hegel Bulletin. First View: doi: 10.1017/hgl.2025.4

"On Reading Hegel's Logic Phenomenologically." Idealistic Studies 55.3 (2025): 375–398.

"The Entrance of Fact into Essence: Adorno and the Opening of Dialectical Phenomenology." Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56.3 (2025): 254–274.

"Hegel and the Paradox of Presence." Hegel Bulletin 46.1 (2025): 47-67.

"The Reasonableness of Doubt: Phenomenology and Scientific Realism." Synthese 204.6 (2024): 1–24.

"The Omnitemporality of Idealities." Continental Philosophy Review (2024): 1–22. First View: doi: 10.1007/s11007-024-09629-3

"The Schizoanalysis of Sex: Toward a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sexual Ontology." philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism. 10.1 (2020): 47–70.

Refereed Book Chapters

"Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference," with Mary C. Rawlinson. In What is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares, 1–13. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

"The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference." In What is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares, 17–38. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

"Irigarayan Ontology and the Possibilities of Sexual Difference." In Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, edited by Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, 117–136. Albany: SUNY Press, 2022.

Other Publications

“Interview with physicist Christopher Fuchs,” with Robert P. Crease. Continental Philosophy Review. 54.4 (2021): 541–561.

“Review of Laura Roberts, Irigaray and Politics.” Sophia 61.1 (2022): 243–245.

Gottlob Ernst Schulze, “Aphorisms on the Absolute.” Edited by Kenneth Westphal, translated by Caleb Faul, James Sares, and Kenneth Westphal. The Owl of Minerva 51.1-2 (2020): 13–34.