John Rundell is Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at La Trobe University and Principal Honorary in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Professor John Rundell was the Director of The Program for Social Theory at The University of Melbourne between 1998-2015, having joined it in 1993. Prior to that he taught in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University from 1986 after gaining his PhD in Sociology in 1985 at La Trobe University. He is a former editor of the journal Thesis Eleven and a founding editor of Critical Horizons, and The Social and Critical Theory Book Series.
John Rundell has published Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom; Imaginaries of Modernity; Origins of Modernity: The Origins of Modern Social Theory from Kant to Hegel to Marx and jointly edited Critical Theories and the Budapest School (with Jonathan Pickle); Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity (with Peter Beilharz and Gillian Robinson), Rethinking Imagination: Culture and Creativity (with Gillian Robinson), Culture and Civilization: Classical and Critical Readings (with Stephen Mennell), Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (with Rainer Bauboeck), Critical Theory After Habermas Encounters and Departures (with Dieter Freundlieb and Wayne Hudson), Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy (with Danielle Petherbridge et al), Recognition, Work, Politics. New Directions in French Critical Theory (with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge and Robert Sinnerbrink), Aesthetics and Modernity Essays by Agnes Heller, and Imaginaries of Modernity.
He has published widely on the topic of multiple modernities, and problems of human self-images in social theory, with particular reference to the imagination, normativity and critical theory, and has an abiding interest in the works of Cornelius Castoriadis and Agnes Heller. He has been a Visiting Professorial Fellow at University College Dublin in the departments of Sociology and Philosophy, and has given papers at The New School for Social Research, New York, John Cabot University, Rome, Corvinus University, Budapest, The University of Antwerp (Belgium), and the University of Rovaneimi, (Finland). He is also a member of The International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (IRNRD).
Editor, Critical Horizons
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Editor, The Social and Critical Theory Book Series
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