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220The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty (edited book)Routledge. 2012.This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing? The answers are framed in terms of the deep intellectual histories at our disposal for considering thes…Read more
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49The critique of loneliness: towards the political motives of the doppelgängerAngelaki 9 (2). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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7'Clumsy questioners' Questioning and the Meaning of Meaning in CollingwoodCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 11 (1): 39-59. 2005.Those of Collingwood's interpreters who insist that the science of being was abandoned in the later writings, tend to display also a marked dissatisfaction with the logic of question and answer, at least as it is presented in the Essay on Metaphysics. The most influential statement of this interpretation is undoubtedly Rex Martin's. It was initially published as an article in 1989 and was later institutionalized through its incorporation in his 'Editor's Introduction' to the Oxford University Pr…Read more
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88"The return of negation: the Doppelganger in Freud's" The 'Uncanny'"Substance 35 (2): 100-116. 2006.
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25The Freedom to LiePhilosophy Today 58 (2): 141-162. 2014.This article examines the connection between lying and the concept of freedom, especially in the wake of the social contract tradition. I show that the liar poses a particular threat to the social contract. As a result, lying has been portrayed as a pernicious threat to the political. This culminates in Kant’s outright rejection of lying under any circumstance. From the Kantian perspective, one can be free only if one does not lie. Conversely, Spinoza’s co-implication of virtue and power entails…Read more
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155« Le plus grand logicien du vingtième siècle » : la liberté selon DerridaRue Descartes 82 (3): 145-148. 2014.J’ai découvert l’oeuvre de Jacques Derrida quand j’étais étudiant dans un département de philosophie analytique. L’un de mes professeurs – un spécialiste du positivisme – parlait d’un philosophe français comme du « plus grand logicien du vingtième siècle ». Ce philosophe français, c’était Derrida. J’aimerais prendre au sérieux cette assertion, en la mettant à l’épreuve d’une rencontre entre la conception philosophique occidentale de la liberté et la logique derridienne. Rencontre que je propose…Read more
Dimitris Vardoulakis
University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Baruch Spinoza |
Sovereignty |
Democracy |
Freedom and Liberty |
Equality |
Epicureans |