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22The relationship between critical theory and psychoanalysis has a long and interesting history. The first generation of Frankfurt School philosophers, particularly figures such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, embraced psychoanalysis in order to explain why, given seemingly propitious historical circumstances, 'the masses' opted for fascism rather than communism during the 1930s. Following the rise of Nazism and the horrors of Auschwitz, Freudian psychoanalytic theory once again proved imp…Read more
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11Terrence Malick’s The New World is a poetic evocation of one of America’s founding myths, the story of Pocahontas. While the film allegorises - through the theme of marriage - the possibility of successful cultural exchange and of reconciliation with nature, it also fuses mythic history, subjective reflection, and the self-expression of nature. This unstable point of view has led to a critical ambivalence concerning the film’s romantic naivety: its evocation of ideologically suspect myths or his…Read more
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10A review of Andrew Haas’ "Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity", Northwestern University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-810-11670-7 ; 0-810-11669-3.
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18Book review : 'Filmosophy' (review)A book review of Daniel Frampton's 'Filmosophy', 2006. London: Wallflower, ISBN 1904764843.
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19Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience Through FilmRoutledge. 2015.How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically significant? Cinematic Ethics: _Exploring Ethical Experience through Film_ addresses these questions by examining the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience with the power to provoke emotional understanding and philosophical thinking. In a clear and engaging style, Robert Sinnerbrink examines the key philosophical approaches to…Read more
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26Understanding HegelianismRoutledge. 2007.Understanding Hegelianism explores the ways in which Hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in twentieth-century European philosophy, particularly the traditions of critical theory, existentialism, Marxism, and poststructuralism. Robert Sinnerbrink begins with an examination of Kierkegaard's existentialism and Marx's materialism. He looks at the contrasting critiques of Hegel by Lukacs and Heidegger as well as the role of Hegelian themes…Read more
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29Sein und Geist: Heidegger's Confrontation with Hegel's PhenomenologyCosmos and History 3 (2-3): 132-152. 2007.This paper pursues the lsquo;thinking dialoguersquo; between Hegel and Heidegger, a dialogue centred on Heideggerrsquo;s lsquo;confrontationrsquo; with Hegelrsquo;s Phenomenology of Spirit. To this end, I examine Heideggerrsquo;s critique of Hegel on the relationship between time and Spirit; Heideggerrsquo;s interpretation of the Phenomenology as exemplifying the Cartesian-Fichtean metaphysics of the subject; and Heideggerrsquo;s later reflections on Hegel as articulating the modern metaphysics …Read more
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14Recognition or Decentred Agency? Philosophical Culture and its Discontents (Jurist, Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency)Cosmos and History 3 (2-3): 389-395. 2007.
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73Irving Singer (2008) Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in FilmFilm-Philosophy 14 (1): 377-386. 2010.
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13From machenschaft to biopolitics: A genealogical critique of biopowerCritical Horizons 6 (1): 239-265. 2005.This paper develops a genealogical critique of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics in the work of Foucault and Agamben. It shows how Heidegger's reflections on Machenschaft or machination prefigure the concepts of biopower and biopolitics. It develops a critique of Foucault's account of biopolitics as a system of managing the biological life of populations culminating in neo-liberalism, and a critique of Agamben's presentation of biopolitics as the metaphysical foundation of Western politic…Read more
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55Cinempathy: Phenomenology, Cognitivism, and Moving ImagesContemporary Aesthetics. forthcoming.Some of the most innovative philosophical engagement with cinema and ethics in recent years has come from phenomenological and cognitivist perspectives. This trend reflects a welcome re-engagement with cinema as a medium with the potential for ethical transformation, that is, with the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience. This paper explores the phenomenological turn in film theory, emphasizing the ethical implications of phenomenological approaches to affect and empathy, emotion, an…Read more
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4Critique and disclosure: Critical theory between past and futureCritical Horizons 8 (2): 266-271. 2007.
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Rebecca Comay & John McCumber Eds's Endings. A Question Of Memory In Hegel And Heidegger (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47 96-100. 2003.
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4Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely DemandingCritical Horizons 10 (2): 163-179. 2009.Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates in ethics and political philosophy. For all its originality, however, one can raise critical questions concerning Critchley's account of the forms of resistance possible within liberal democratic polities. In this article I question the adequacy of Critchley's ethically based neo-anarchism as a response to neo-liberalism, critically analysing the role of ideology in his account of the motivational deficit …Read more
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14Hugo MiinsterbergIn Felicity Colman (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen Publishing. pp. 20-30. 2009.Film, Theory and Philosophy brings together leading scholars to provide a detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy. The thinkers include continental philosophers, post-continental philosophers, analytic philosophers, film-makers, film reviewers, sociologists, and cultural theorists. The essays reveal how philosophy can be applied to film analysis and how film can be used to illustrate philosophical problems. But more importantly, the essays explore how f…Read more
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31This essay presents a critical interpretation of Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Walter Benjamin’s text, "Critique of Violence." It examines the relationship between deconstruction and justice, and the parallel Derrida draws between deconstructive reading and Benjamin’s account of pure violence. I argue that Derrida blurs Benjamin’s distinction between the political general strike and the proletarian general strike. As a consequence, Derrida criticises Benjamin’s metaphysical complicity with…Read more
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2The Volcano and the dream: Consequences of RomanticismIn P. D. Bubbio & P. Redding (eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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94Cinematic Ideas, on David Lynch's Mulholland DriveFilm-Philosophy 9 (4). 2005.he enigmatic films of David Lynch have been interpreted from a variety of perspectives. Among these we can find Lynch the postmodernist ironist, Lynch the transgressive neoconservative, and Lynch the visionary explorer of the unconscious. Martha P. Nochimson's recent study, for example, presents an eloquent case for regarding Lynch as a Jungian 'surfer of the waves of the collective unconscious', whose films combine the intuitive embracing of subconscious Life Energy with a celebration of the cr…Read more
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17Bloodsworth‐Lugo, Mary K. and Dan Flory, eds. Race, Philosophy, and Film. New York: Routledge, 2013, xiii + 235 pp., 8 b&w illus., $125.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 340-342. 2014.
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30Nikolas Kompridis, Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and FutureCritical Horizons 8 (2): 266-271. 2007.
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63Critical Theory As Disclosing Critique: A Response to KompridisConstellations 19 (3): 369-381. 2012.What Kompridis admirably describes as the transformative power of disclosing critique should be incorporated into a renewed model of critical theory. At the same time, disclosing critique should be regarded as supplementing, rather than supplanting, those normative forms of analysis and reflection that remain rooted in experiences of social suffering, which are precisely what continue to give critical theory its normative ground and theoretical impetus. In this way, we could agree with Kompridis…Read more
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |