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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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29Love Sick: Malick's Kierkegaardian ‘Weightless’ TrilogyParagraph 42 (3): 279-300. 2019.Malick's ‘weightless’ trilogy explores the limits of different conceptions of love, from the romantic and ethical to the spirit...
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28Imagining Cinema: ‘Cinempathy’ and the Embodied ImaginationParagraph 43 (3): 281-297. 2020.Imagination has been the focus of much philosophical inquiry in recent decades. Although it plays an essential role in linking emotional engagement with ethical experience, imagination has received comparatively little attention in film-philosophy. In this article, I argue that imagination plays an essential role in linking emotional engagement with moral-ethical experience. Drawing on phenomenological, cognitive and aesthetic perspectives, I focus on perceptual imagining and suggest that an acc…Read more
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28Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance: Simon Critchley's Infinitely DemandingCritical Horizons 10 (2): 153-153. 2009.
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27Nikolas Kompridis, Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and FutureCritical Horizons 8 (2): 266-271. 2007.
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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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24Re-enfranchising Film: Towards a Romantic Film-Philosophy.”In Havi Carel & Greg Tuck (eds.), New Takes in Film-Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 25--47. 2011.23 page
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23Poststructuralism and FilmIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 441-465. 2019.This chapter offers a critical discussion of the relationship between poststructuralism and film theory. I commence with a brief account of poststructuralism’s distinctive features. I then turn to the key poststructuralist thinkers such as Derrida and Deleuze, and explore why poststructuralist thinkers themselves may have eschewed reflecting on the medium. I then consider the critique of poststructuralist contribution to film theory, suggesting what elements of that critique remain pertinent. Fi…Read more
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23Like the fabled black swan of early epistemological inquiry, ‘Australasian Continental philosophy’ seems a kind of chimera apt to raise doubts rather than certainty. Is there such a mythical creature? Is it nothing more than a pale reflection of more paradigmatic instances found ‘overseas’, as we say in Australia, an Antipodean counterpart to the ‘major’ developments occurring in the United Kingdom or the United States? Or are there distinctive features of this phenomenon that, like the black sw…Read more
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22Cognitivist Turn in Film TheoryIn James Williams (ed.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, Continuum. pp. 173. 2010.
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22György Markus: On the Path of Culture – Editorial IntroductionCritical Horizons 14 (2): 125-126. 2013.
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22Neo-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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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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20Filmosophy/Film as PhilosophyIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 513-539. 2019.This chapter offers a critical discussion of the idea of filmosophy or film as philosophy. I explore the debate surrounding the idea of “film as philosophy”, distinguishing this approach from more traditional philosophy of film, and suggesting that it has a long history going back to key figures in early film theory. I then focus on the seminal work of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, often described as the inaugurators of film-philosophy. Finally, I examine recent proposals concerning the ide…Read more
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20Audio recording of roundtable discussion between Robert Sinnerbrink, John Mullarkey, Berys Gaut, David Martin-Jones and William Brown held on October 12, 2009 at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Over the course of at least the last hundred years the intellectual study of cinema has experienced a number of shifts towards and away from theoretical or philosophical attempts to understand the moving image. The twenty-first century sees film-philosophy resurgent, in part due to the interest in…Read more
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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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18Endings. Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger, eds. Rebecca Comay and John McCumber , pp. vii + 245. ISBN 0810115077. £24.50 (review)Hegel Bulletin 24 (1-2): 96-100. 2003.
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17Questioning styleIn Alex Clayton & Andrew Klevan (eds.), The Language and Style of Film Criticism, Routledge. 2011.
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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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17Book review : 'Filmosophy' (review)A book review of Daniel Frampton's 'Filmosophy', 2006. London: Wallflower, ISBN 1904764843.
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15A philosophy of cultural modernity: Márkus’s contribution to the philosophy of cultureThesis Eleven 160 (1): 73-83. 2020.As Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney for over 20 years, György Márkus exerted a profound influence on a generation of philosophers and students from many disciplinary backgrounds. His legendary lecture courses, spanning the history of modern philosophy from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, were memorable for their breadth, erudition, and philosophical drama. Always modest despite his mastery of the tradition, Márkus’s approach to this history of philosophy ne…Read more
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15Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (edited book)Brill. 2007.Recognition, Work, Politics includes a range of essays in contemporary French critical theory around politics, recognition, and work, and their philosophical articulations. These issues are addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, recognition theory, and post-marxism
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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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13The Idea of Continental Philosophy: A Philosophical ChronicleAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (4): 696-697. 2008.2 page
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