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Bryan Cooke is a PhD candidate in the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory. After finishing his undergraduate studies at Monash University with a major from the Centre of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Bryan came to Melbourne in 2002 where he completed a Graduate Diploma in Philosophy and a Post-graduate Diploma in Social Theory. His philosophical and literary interests are diverse, but have a tendency to congregate and stand staring open-mouthed in the field [sic] of political philosophy. To this end his doctoral thesis draws on the work of Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss as well as Adorno and (improbably) G.K. Chesterton. He has taught courses for the MSCP on Aristotle and on Adorno, and a course called 'The Pleasures: Of Political Philosophy and Other Interruptions' at the 2008 Summer School.
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Paul Daniels - Convenor has studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne, UNSW and Monash University, and is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His most recent research focused on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and The Birth of Tragedy, and investigated various complexities involved with the early Nietzsche's alleged 'discipleship' of Schopenhauer. He has taught MSCP courses at the 2005 Summer School ('Reading Nietzsche's Zarathustra'), the 2007 Winter School ('Introduction to the Philosophy of Schopenhauer') and the 2008 Summer School (Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy: Music, Science and Philosophy). His research interests include Kant's critical philosophy, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein's early work. His current research compares Kant and Kierkegaard on faith, with particular attention to Fear and Trembling and the Kantian sublime. Paul is also an amateur composer in the classical style and enjoys playing no-limit Texas Hold'em.
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Gareth Davies - Webmaster is an Honours student in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (CCLCS) at Monash University. Gareth's main interests are in phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, and psychoanalysis; he also invests libidinal energy in modernism, literature, poetry, film, and experimental music. His honours thesis examines certain points of intersection between the Lacanian and Derridean interpretations of Freud's death drive and the Dionysian/'irrational' in Nietzsche.
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George Duke is a PhD candidate in the School of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is writing a dissertation on Michael Dummett’s theory of abstract entities. His main interests are the history of analytical philosophy, ancient philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics and political philosophy.
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James Garrett - Treasurer is a PhD candidate in the School of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His areas of interest are in the history of philosophy, and in particular, German Philosophy. He will be co-teaching the course ‘Plato and his Contemporaries’ at the 2008 Summer School. His email address refers to one of Schopenhauer’s dogs, Atma, meaning ‘Soul’ in Sanskrit. email |
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As well as a translator and sometime scrivener, Marc Hiatt is a student of theories with an emancipatory intent. He has studied in Melbourne, Berlin and Freiburg in Breisgau, taught at Monash and La Trobe universities and holds a
Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts, with honours in German and social theory, from the University of Melbourne. MSCP students have known him mainly as an interpreter of the traditions of dialectics, but Marc is also an inconstant amateur of the violin. email |
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Alex Murray teaches
modern literature at University College in London. His research
interests are focussed around the nexus between aesthetics, politics
and ethics, He works on a range of figures including Adorno, Agamben,
Badiou, Benjamin, Marx and Zizek. His project is an examination
of the politics and ethics of historical representation in contemporary
literature. Alex is currently developing the MSCP journal Parrhesia,
and has been an editor of antiTHESIS,
a fully-refereed journal of contemporary theory, criticism and culture,
and Australia's longest-running interdisciplinary postgraduate journal.
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Dr David Rathbone (B.Sc. M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.) has run M.S.C.P. courses on
Hegel, on Feuerbach, on the preSocratics and on Medieval Philosophy, and
has also taught in courses in the Melbourne University School of
Philosophy on Nietzsche, on Kant, on Heidegger, on Derrida, on Foucault,
and even on Sartre. His Master's thesis, Nihilism, Metaphysics and the
Question Concerning Gender compared Nietzsche's ravings about gender with
Heidegger's silence on the topic, and his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The
Imperative to See the Whole traced the vicissitudes of that imperative
from Parmenides to Heidegger and back again. He has written or will soon
be writing articles on the problem of misogyny in Nietzsche; on Derrida's
readings of Hegel; on Blanchot's friendship with Camus; on Heidegger's
silences; on the conception of Chinese Philosophy in the writings of
Malebranche, Leibniz, Wolff and Voltaire; on Kant's doctrine of
metaphysical illusion; and on some resonances between Parmenides and the
Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book. He is currently teaching
Nietzsche at Melbourne University. email |
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Dr Jack Reynolds is the Continental Area Editor of the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His areas of interest are Existentialism,
Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Political Philosophy and Time in
Deleuze and Derrida. Jack lectures at LaTrobe University. As well as his co-edited book on Derrida with Jon
Roffe, Jack has also published Merleau-Ponty and Derrida
- Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio: Ohio University
Press, 2004), and Understanding Existentialism (London:
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Jon Roffe is a founding member and the original convenor of the MSCP, and a founding editor of the Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. He is the editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum Press) with Jack Reynolds, and the forthcoming Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (Edinburgh University Press) with Graham Jones, and his other publications concern Deleuze, Derrida, Spinoza, Merleau-Ponty and the philosophy of the city. He is currently completing a book on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, and his other current research interests include Jean-Francois Lyotard's reading of psychoanalysis and the philosophy of mathematics. email |
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Sean Ryan has lectured and tutored French and German philosophy at the University of Melbourne for the past 10 years. He holds an MA from the University of Melbourne, and is currently attempting to terminate an interminable PhD on the topic of Heideggers Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsche. He has so far met with little success.
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Dr Matthew Sharpe is a Lecturer in Philosophy and
Psychoanalytic Studies at Deakin University, the author of Slavoj
Zizek: A Little Piece of the Real, co-author of Understanding Psychoanalysis and the co-editor of Traversing
the Fantasy: Critical Essays on Zizek. He has published numerous
articles on Camus, Castoriadis, Baudrillard, Derrida, Zizek, Lacan,
Marcuse, Kant and film theory, and his current research interests
centre around Leo Strauss and the recent rise of neo-conservatist
political doctrines. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne
in social theory and philosophy in 2003, writing on Zizek's political
and critical theory. Since that time, he has taught several courses
at the MSCP, together with sessional appointments in the Philosophy
departments of Auckland and Melbourne Universities. email
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Dr Cameron Shingleton completed an honours thesis in German on Nietzsche's reading of the Pre-Socratics in "Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". His PhD thesis was on Nietzsche's many and varied conceptions of philosophy. He is also the author of a collection of aphorisms, and of translations from the German of Karl Kraus. He was the convenor of the MSCP from 2005 to 2006, kick-started the MSCP's History of Philosophy series and is in the process of putting together a new Environmental Philosophy program.
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Mark Tomlinson is an MA candidate in the School of Philosophy at The University of Melbourne. He holds a BA (Hons.) in English and Philosophy from Melbourne, as well as a Diploma in Modern Languages (French). Aside from tutoring at the aforementioned institution, Mark is currently preparing papers on Nietzsche, the early German Romantics, and Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history. email
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Dr Marion Tapper has lectured in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne for over two decades and formally joined the MSCP in 2004. Her interests include the history of philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology (in particular, Kant, Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre). As a senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy she supervised the postgraduate work of most present day MSCP members. She currently runs the Lives of the Philosophers public lectures and has co-organised MSCP events including the Sartre Colloquium in October of 2005, which included a performance of Huis Clos (held in conjunction with the Department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies and the Department of Philosophy).
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Dr Ashley Woodward received a B.A. (hons.) from
LaTrobe University and a PhD in philosophy through the University
of Queensland. His dissertation was a comparative and critical study
of the concept of nihilism in the works of Lyotard, Baudrillard,
and Vattimo, and he is broadly interested in the question of how
to think the problem of existential meaning within the horizon of
current theoretical approaches in the humanities. His other philosophical
interests include Analytic philosophy, the social philosophy of
science, technology, and information, post-Marxist social and political
theory, and the aesthetics of modern art. He has taught philosophy
at the University of Queensland, Deakin University, Monash University,
and the University of Melbourne, and has published on Lyotard, Vattimo,
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