Witch

Katie Howard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on feminist philosophy and political philosophy, especially the work of Hannah Arendt, with additional research interests in contemporary affect theory. Her work has appeared in the journals Raisons Politiques, Journal of World Philosophies, and Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Shannon Mariotti is Professor of Political Science at Trinity University, in San Antonio, Texas. Her scholarship focuses on democratic theory and practice, with a focus on 19th century American Transcendentalism and Romanticism as well as 20th century Critical Social Theory and Modernism. She is the author of Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) as well as Adorno and Democracy: The American Years (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). She is also co-editor of A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). Her most recent book is Contemplative Democracy: Political Theory and Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025). She is co-editor of Contemplative Praxis and Politics (forthcoming from Routledge, 2026).

• 1. Introduction.- Part I: Establishing Witch Studies.- 2. Selections from Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath.- 3. “Cosmic Feminisms” from The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory.- 4. Selections from Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women.- 5. Selections from Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation.- 6. “Getting It Wrong: The Problems with Reinventing the Past”.- Part II: Emerging Witch Studies.- 7. “Witches as Worldbuilders: Thirteen Theses on the Political Power of a Coven of Crones”.- 8. “Green with Envy: On Affective Injustice and Resistance”.- 9. “Weird Sisters and Other Relatives: Witch Hunts, the Commons, and Uncommon Natures in Ecological Feminism”.- 10. “The New Demonographers: Early Modern Ethics of Persuasion and Belief”.- 11. “Salem to Social Media: Tracing the Parallels Between Historical and Digital Blame”.- 12. “The Witch in Afro-Cuban Religion”.- 13. “Multiversal Ceremony: On Tending Differential Being”.- 14. “Theses on Magic Materialism as Witchcraft: In search of the Philosopher’s Coven”.- Part III: Encountering the Makers of Modern Feminist Witchcraft and Witch Studies.- 15. “Embodying an earth-based spirituality”: An interview with Starhawk.- 16. “We are in a period of witch-hunting”: An interview with Silvia Federici.