Amy E . Wendling, BA, PhD

Professor

Contact

College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 106

Amy E . Wendling, BA, PhD

Professor

Teaching Interests

  • Social and Political Philosophy; History of Western Philosophy (Especially Nineteenth Century)

Department

Dean's Office - Arts & Sciences

Position

Professor

Books

  • Wendling Amy E., Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction 2022
  • Crossref
    Wendling Amy E., Alienation [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Wendling Amy E., The Screen as Instrument of Freedom and Unfreedom [Book Chapter] 2020
  • The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers
    Wendling Amy E., Marx and the meaning of life [Book Chapter] 2018
  • In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse
    Wendling Amy E., Second Nature: Gender in Marx’s Grundrisse [Book Chapter] 2013
  • Wendling Amy E., The Ruling Ideas: Bourgeois Political Concepts 2012
  • Wendling Amy E., Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation 2011
  • Wendling Amy, Karl Marx on technology and alienation 2009
  • Wendling Amy E., Karl Marx on technology and alienation 2009
  • Wendling Amy E., Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation Introduction [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Wendling Amy E., Alienation Beyond Marx [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Wendling Amy E., Machines in the Capitalist Reality [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Wendling Amy E., Machines in the Communist Future [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Wendling Amy E., Machines and the Transformation of Work [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development
    Wendling Amy E., Karl Marx [Book Chapter] 2008
  • Reading Bataille Now
    Wendling Amy E., Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Wendling Amy E, Capitalist embodiment 2007

Articles

  • Creighton University Magazine
    Wendling Amy E., At Second Glance: The Karl Marx You Never Knew
    Summer, p. 12 - 15 2010

Publications

  • AMA journal of ethics
    Wendling Amy E, On Health and Loneliness
    25:11, p. E850 2023
  • Radical philosophy review : RPR
    , Editorial Note
    26:2, p. 3 - 3 2023
  • Radical philosophy review : RPR
    van der Linden Harry, Editorial Note
    25:1, p. 3 - 4 2022
  • Wendling Amy E., Marcello Musto: The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography. Translated by Patrick Camiller. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 194.) 2021
  • Human Affairs
    Wendling Amy E., Money and the meaning of life
    29:4, p. 470 - 478 2019
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Wendling Amy E., Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom: Lessons from Hobbes
    14 2017
  • Radical Philosophy Review (Philosophy Documentation Center)
    Wendling Amy E., Cashed Out
    18:2, p. 359 - 362 2015
  • Philosophy Today
    Wendling Amy E., Crisis theory and the false desire of home ownership
    55:2, p. 199 - 210 2011
  • Wendling Amy E., Review of The Reification of Desire by Kevin Floyd 2011
  • Wendling Amy E., The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism 2011
  • Historical Materialism
    Wendling Amy E., New Waves in Philosophy of Technology
    18:2, p. 195 - 207 2010
  • Phi Beta Kappa Reporter
    Wendling Amy E., Economic Crisis Theory: Another Look at Karl Marx
    Summer, p. 6 - 11 2009
  • Contemporary Sociology
    Wendling Amy E., Labor of fire: The ontology of labor between economy and culture
    35:6, p. 626 - 627 2006
  • International Studies in Philosophy
    Wendling Amy E., The Dignity of Labor?: A Marxist Challenge to Traditional Marxism
    38:2, p. 181 - 196 2006
  • Socialism and democracy
    Wendling Amy, Comparing Two Editions of Marx-Engels Collected Works
    19:1, p. 181 - 189 2005
  • International studies in philosophy
    , Partial liberations: The machine, gender, and high-tech culture
    34:2, p. 169 - 185 2002

Presentations

  • "The Fanalsy of Limitless Wealth." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Main Program, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2018. Invited. 2018
  • Roundtable on William Clare Roberts' Marx's Inferno. With David McNally (York) and Alex Gouravitch (Brown). Critical Social Theory at McGill Fall 2017 Events. McGill University. Montreal. Sept. 29, 2017. (Invited.) 2017
  • Author Meets Readers Session on Amy Wendling's The Ruling Ideas: Bourgeois Political Concepts. Radical Philosophy Association: 12th Biennial Conference. University of Kentucky. November 10-13, 2016. Invited. 2016
  • Respondent, Author meets readers session on Shannon Winnubst's Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics, with commentary by Amy Wendling ( Professor and Chairof Philosophy, Creighton University) and Richard A. Lee (Professor ofPhilosophy, De Paul University), with a response by Shannon WInnubst. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Main Program, Hilton Salt Lake City, October 2016. (Invited; 25% acceptance rate on finished academic books.) 2016
  • "Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom: Lessons from Hobbes." Religion and Poltics: A Kripke Symposium. Creighton University. February 19, 2016. 2016
  • "Civic Trust and the Freerider Problem." Presented by co-author Anne Ozar. Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 25th annual meeting. February 18-21, 2016. Reston, VA. (Peer Refereed.) 2016
  • "A Brief History of Home Ownership: Possessive Individualism and the Housing Crisis." Historical Materialism Annual Meeting. SOAS, University of London, London, UK. November 6-9, 2014. (Peer Refereed.) 2014
  • "On Suffering." Southwest Seminar for Continental Philosophy, Colorado College. June 6-8, 2014. (Peer Refereed.) 2014
  • "Can Water be Property?," Invited Speaker, Scholars Session, Ethics Awareness Week, Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley University, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2013
  • "The Politics of Internal Time Consciousness," Keynote Speaker, 2013 Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Texas A & M University, May 16-18, 2013. 2013
  • "Temporal Domination and the Colonized Consciousness." Historical Materialism Annual Meeting. SOAS, University of London, London, UK. November 8-11, 2012. (Peer Refereed.) 2012
  • "Temporal Domination as Biopower: Boredom, Procrastination, and Multitasking." Radical Philosophy Association: 10th Biennial Conference and 30th Anniversary. Canisius College. October 11-14, 2012. Buffalo, NY. 2012
  • "Crisis." International Society for Marxian Theory, 20th anniversary meeting. Creighton University. 2012
  • "Does Water Have Value, and What Kind?" University of Nebraska Medical Center. Andy Jameton Graduate Seminar. 2012
  • "Is Suffering Emancipatory? Marxist Reflections on Human Suffering." Invited by the Kenefick Chair in the Humanities and the Theology Department, Creighton University, Subsequently aired on the noontime forum radio program KIOS/NPR, Summer 2012. 2012
  • Author meets readers session on Amy Wendling's Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation, with commentary by James Swindal (Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Duquesne University) and Matthias Fritsch (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University), with a response by Amy Wendling. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Main Program, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA, October 2011. (Peer Reviewed; 25% acceptance rate on finished academic books.) 2011
  • "The Philosophy of Water." Western Social Science Association, Philosophy Section. Marriott Downtown, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2011

Other

  • MAGIS core curriculum development grant for PHL 426 The Carceral State, Intersections and Designated Ethics, Summer 2017

Awards

  • Wendling featured in Wark's General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century
    Wendling listed first, primarily for her book Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation, among a group of the most cutting edge philosophers and critics alive today, including Slavoj Zizek, Chantall Mouffe, Timothy Morton, Paul Gilroy, Judith Butler, and Donna Haraway
  • Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
    Research on the philosophy of water.
    Creighton University