Associate Professor James Phillips
MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory (Monash), PhD in Philosophy (UTas)
I have been at 91色情片 since 2006, first as a Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow, then as an ARC Australian Research Fellow (2007-2011), before taking up a combined research-teaching position in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Languages.
I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, undertook an MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at Monash University, and was then awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2002.听 During my doctoral studies I spent nine months in Innsbruck as an OeAD scholar and six months in Potsdam as a DAAD scholar.听 I have since then been a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and a resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.
Apart from the publications listed below, I have also translated two books: Christoph Menke, Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009) and Alexander Garc铆a D眉ttmann, Philosophy of Exaggeration (London: Continuum, 2007).
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I am currently engaged in a book听project on the philosophy of fiction, drawing on the concepts of "world" in Kant and Heidegger.
Forthcoming publications:
鈥淗eidegger鈥檚 Technology Essay and the Uncanniness of 韦峤蠂谓畏鈥, Human Studies (accepted January 2026)听
鈥淭he Underlying Agreement of the Sensus Communis: Gadamer and Habermas on Tradition鈥,听脡tudes Ph茅nom茅nologiques 鈥 Phenomenological Studies听(accepted January 2026)
"Kant and Arendt as Spectators of Revolutions" in听Hannah Arendt鈥檚听Kant Lectures, ed. Nicholas Dunn (De Gruyter, accepted February 2026)
English Literature and the Aesthetics of Community: The Sensus听Communis from Beowulf to Beckett听(Bloomsbury, accepted February 2026)
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My Research Supervision
Ph.D.: Arjun Ravichandran on Hegel, Heidegger, phenomenology and time
Ph.D.: Finnegan Hassey on Arendt's concept of nationalism (joint supervisor: Jess Whyte)
MA: Sofia Kartavtseva on Sade and aesthetics
My Teaching
I teach political philosophy, aesthetics and the history of German philosophy.
In 2026 I will be teaching in T1 ARTS2367 "Thinking Through Art" and ARTS3360 "Examining Pivotal Texts" and in T2 ARTS2384 "Political Philosophy".
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