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Mari Ruti is professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include Critical theory, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, poststucturalism, phenomenology, feminism and queer theory.

Mari was educated at Brown and Harvard, and she also holds a degree from the University of Paris where she studied psychoanalytic theory with Julia Kristeva. After finishing her Harvard Ph.D. in 2000, she spent four years as Assistant Director of the University's program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is currently Associate Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto. Mari is a critic of Evolutionary Psychology and advocates the view that there are no evolved behavioral sex differences.

Books

 * Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015).
 * The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015).
 * The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
 * The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012).
 * The Summons of Love (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
 * A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009).
 * Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (New York: Other Press, 2006).