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Ruth Ronen is Professor in the department of philosophy
She graduated from the University of Toronto (1984) and since 1985 is on the faculty of the Humanities at Tel Aviv University. She was first in the department of Poetics and Comparative Literature, and joined the Philosophy department in 1997. She served as head of the Philosophy Department (2014-2018), and head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics and .Science Studies (2020-2024)

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

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.