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Past Schools

 

What follows is a full list of the courses presented by the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy since its inception as a teaching institution in 2003.

 

 

Evening School Semester One 2011 

Deleuze Seminar
Jon Roffe

Objective Mind in Hegel
David Rathbone

Summer School 2011

Aesthetics: A Philosophical Introduction
Cameron Shingleton

Introduction to Jacques Lacan
Bryan Cooke

Phenomenology meets the Neurosciences
Maurita Harney

Deleuze and Cinema
Jon Roffe

Brandom's Linguistic Rationalism
Gilles Bouche

Jacob Klein: Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
David Sweeny

European Philosophy and The Law (2 Part Course)
Various Presenters

The Philosophy of Alain Badiou (2 Part Course) 
Jon Roffe, Justin Clemens, Adam Bartlett

Winter School 2010 

Lévinas and Derrida: another time at the anarche of subjectivity
Andrea León

Maurice Blanchot: literature and the ambiguity of the negative
Mark Hewson
Heidegger's Aristotle
James Garrett

History of Philosophy II: Plato
Martin Black
Spinoza's Ethics
Jon Roffe

Max Weber - Social Philosopher
Cameron Shingleton

Summer School 2010 

Deleuze’s Leibniz: The Fold
Sean Bowden
Foucault's Archeology Of Knowledge
Jon Roffe
Nietzsche’s Legacy: Existentialism, Post-Structuralism, Transhumanism
Ashley Woodward
Phenomenology Meets The Neurosciences
Maurita Harney
Problem Of Socrates: Plato, Xenophon And The Limits Of Philosophy
Bryan Cooke
History Of Philosophy I: The Presocratics
James Garrett
Jacques Lacan And Leo Strauss: A Symposium On The Ancient And The Modern
Matthew Sharpe
Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy Of Radical Alterity
Andrea León-Monterro

Winter School 2009 

Meaning and Metaphor in Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
Paul Daniels

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition
Jon Roffe

Kant's Critical Philosophy (2 Part Course)
Marc Hiatt, Philip Quadrio & Paul Daniels

Marx and Marxism
Andy Blunden
Recent Continental Rationalism
Jon Roffe

Summer School 2009 

Foucault and Hadot: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Ashley Woodward

History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy, Part 2 (Late Medieval Era)
Ian Weeks

History of Philosophy V: Rationalism
Jon Roffe

Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction
James Williams

Heidegger's Being and Time
James Garrett

On Slavoj Zizek's Political Theory, or: Would You Like A Politics With That?
Matthew Sharpe and Geoff Boucher

Dialectics of Enlightenment
Bryan Cooke

 

Evening School 2008 

Semester 1
Images of Nature: A Philosophical Introduction to an Environmental Ethics
Cameron Shingleton

Global Warming: The Science and its Implications
Phillip Sutton

Semester 2
Global Warming: An Economic Perspective
Jim Crosthwaite

 

Evening School 2009

Semester 1
Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times
Cameron Shingleton 

Winter 2008

History of Philosophy III: Aristotle: the Practical Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe and James Garrett

Intepretations of Nietzsche
Various Presenters

History of Philosohy IV: Medieval Philosophy I
Ian Weeks

Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
Mark Hewson

Mind and Society: Robert Brandom and the Continental Tradition
Andrew Montin and Gilles Bouche

And Introduction to Hegel's Logic
Andy Blunden

 

Summer 2008 

History of Philosophy I: The Presocratics
David Rathbone

Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: Music, Science and Philosophy
Paul Daniels

History of Philosophy II: Plato and his Contemporaries
Matthew Sharpe and James Garrett

Women in Dark Times: Arendt and Heller
Matthew Sharpe, Lucy Ward and Sergio Mariscal

Emmanual Levinas: Philosopher of Radical Alterity
Andrea Leon-Montero

Thinking the Analytic/Continental Divide
Jack Reynolds and George Duke

The Pleasures: Of Political Philosophy and Other Interruptions
Bryan Cooke

Alain Badiou's Being and Event
Jon Roffe

 

Winter 2007

The Philosophy of GWF Hegel
Andy Blunden

Derrida - Writing and Difference
Convened by Jack Reynolds, Various presenters

20th Century German Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe and Marc Hiatt

Deleuze's Difference and Repetition
Graham Jones and Jon Roffe

Introduction to the Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Paul Daniels

 

Summer 2007

Postmodern Conservatism
Matthew Sharpe and Geoff Boucher

Contemporary Cultural Conundrums
Various convenors

French Feminism
Joanne Faulkner

Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus
Jon Roffe
Psychoanalysis - A Philosophy of Mind?
Joanne Faulkner with Matthew Sharpe

MSCP History of Philosophy 6: Modern Empiricism
Jon Roffe

 

Winter 2006

Hegel: The Whole Picture
David Rathbone

History of Philosophy V: The Modern Rationalists
Jon Roffe

Adorno: the defense of Geist
Bryan Cooke and Marc Hiatt

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
Graham Jones and Jon Roffe

 

Summer 2006

History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy (part 2)
Joint presentation, convened by Cameron Shingleton and Marion Tapper
History of Philosophy III: Aristotle
Craig Barrie and Bryan Cooke
Three Centuries of Aphorisms
Cameron Shingleton
Democracy, Elites and Violence
Matthew Sharpe
Lyotard: The libidinal and the figural
Ashley Woodward
Introduction to the Philosophy of Alain Badiou
Jon Roffe

 

Winter 2005

History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy (part 1)
David Rathbone
Nietzsche, History, Democracy
John Greene (University of Tasmania)
The Thought of Martin Heidegger
Joint presentation, convened by Sean Ryan

 

 

Summer 2005 

History of Philosophy I: The PreSocratics
David Rathbone
History of Philosophy II: Plato and his contemporaries
Fiona Leigh (Monash University)

Introduction to Existentialism
Jack Reynolds
Introduction to Continental Philosophy
Joint presentation, convened by Ashley Woodward
Leo Strauss and the Neo Cons: Secrets, (Noble) Lies and Politics
Matthew Sharpe
Reading Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Paul Daniels
The Thought of Michel Foucault
Jon Roffe

 

Winter 2004 

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Jon Roffe
Baudrillard, Bataille, Derrida: Marcel Mauss' gift to continental philosophy
Matthew Sharpe (with Ashley Woodward on Baudrillard and Jon Roffe on Derrida)

Summer 2004

Jean Baudrillard
Ashley Woodward
Phenomenology of Embodiment
Felicity Joseph
Kant and Psychoanalysis
Matthew Sharpe
Derrida circa 1972
Jon Roffe
Philosophy as Public Art
Esther Anatolitis

 

Winter 2003

Themes from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
Jon Roffe
Introducing Critical Theory
Matthew Sharpe

 

Summer 2003

Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
David Rathbone
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cameron Shingleton
Martin Heidegger: an introduction to his 'way' of thinking
Craig Barrie
Jean-François Lyotard: the sublime and the differend
Ashley Woodward
Ideology and Aesthetics
Matthew Sharpe
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Jon Roffe

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