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40Critique hope, power: Challenges of contemporary critical theoryCritical Horizons 6 (1): 1-21. 2005.In the first part of the paper I consider the relative neglect of hope in the tradition of critical theory. I attribute this neglect to a low estimation of the cognitive, aesthetic, and moral value of hope, and to the strong—but, argue, contingent—association that holds between hope and religion. I then distinguish three strategies for thinking about the justification of social hope; one which appeals to a notion of unfulfilled or frustrated natural human capacities, another which invokes a prov…Read more
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Hugo Mensterberg, film, and philosophyIn Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.), Film as philosophy, University of Minnesota Press. 2017.
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Cinematic experience : from moving images to virtual realityIn Kyle Stevens (ed.), The Oxford handbook of film theory, Oxford University Press. 2022.
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1The secret passion : Sartre, Huston, and the Freud screenplayIn Talia Morag (ed.), Sartre and Analytic Philosophy, Routledge. 2023.
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3The Aesthetics of IdeologyKrisis 39 (1): 130-134. 2019.Review of: Aesthetic Marx edited by Samir Gandesha & Johan F. Hartle. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 283 pp.
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29György Markus: On the Path of Culture – Editorial IntroductionCritical Horizons 14 (2): 125-126. 2013.
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The volcano and the dream : consequences of RomanticismIn Paolo Diego Bubbio & Paul Redding (eds.), Religion after Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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Film and EthicsIn Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva & Steven S. Gouveia (eds.), Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides, Routledge Press, Research On Aesthetics. 2019.
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10Emotions, ethics, and cinematic experience: new phenomenological and cognitivist perspectives (edited book)Berghahn Books. 2021.Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odds with each other, both approaches offer important insights on our subjective experience of cinema. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive by addressing the key relationship between cinematic experience, e…Read more
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8Michael TheunissenIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 199-202. 2018.
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34Imagining 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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18A 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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25Poststructuralism 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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23Filmosophy/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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13Truths in DocumentaryThe European Legacy 25 (7-8): 852-858. 2020.According to many film aficionados, theorists, and critics, we are currently experiencing a Golden Age of documentary cinema. Indeed, in many international film festivals, it is often the documenta...
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34Love 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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2Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s PhenomenologyCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 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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10Art and Time by Allan, Derek: Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. xvi +181, ₤40 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (2): 385-387. 2014.
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34A Post-Humanist Moralist: michael haneke's cinematic critiqueAngelaki 16 (4): 115-129. 2011.The films of Michael Haneke, so some critics argue, exploit the nihilism of a media-saturated culture, indulging in a dubious manipulation of audience expectations and our fascination with violence. Such criticisms, however, misunderstand or distort the complex moral, political, and aesthetic purpose of Haneke’s work. Indeed, his films are better understood as examining the socially disorienting and subjectively disintegrating effects of our post-humanist world of mass-mediatised experience. At …Read more
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16The Idea of Continental Philosophy: A Philosophical ChronicleAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (4): 696-697. 2008.2 page
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2Planet Melanholija: Romantika, razpoloženje in filmska etikaFilozofski Vestnik 37 (2). 2016.Lars von Trierjeva Melanholija ponudi fascinantno raziskovanje filmske romantike in estetike filmskih razpoloženj. S pomočjo dramatizacije katastrofične izkušnje »izgube sveta« glavne junakinje Justine [Kirsten Dunst's], nam predstavi uničujočo podobo melanholije, ki najde ustrezni konec v sublimni filmski fantaziji izničenja sveta. V pričujočem članku analiziram nekatere estetske in filozofske sklope Melanholije, še posebej Von Trierjevo raziskovanje uporabe romantike in predstavitve filmskega …Read more
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19Endings. 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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12Pleasure, Art, Culture: Remarks on Mohan Matthen's ‘The Pleasure of Art’Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (1): 50-60. 2017.ABSTRACTIn response to Mohan Matthen's ‘The Pleasure of Art’, I identify three issues that deserve further critical engagement: the scope of his definition of aesthetic pleasure, the role of culture in shoring up its communal and communicable character, and the need to include an account of aesthetic properties in his psychologically grounded approach to aesthetic pleasure. Without due acknowledgment of both aesthetic properties and the intersubjective role of culture, Matthen's activity-based t…Read more
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9Division III of Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’: The Unanswered Question of BeingThe European Legacy 24 (1): 107-112. 2018.
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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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32Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von TrierContemporary Political Theory 17 (S1): 1-5. 2018.
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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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