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Department of Philosophy

Jean-Philippe Deranty

BPhil Paris IV, MPhil Paris IV, DPh Paris IV

Jean-Philippe was educated in Paris (Lycee Louis-le-Grand, Ecole Normale Superieure and Paris IV-Sorbonne). He also spent two years in Germany (Hegel Archive in Bochum and Freie-Universitat in Berlin) to research for his PhD. In 1993 and 1994, he taught French and Philosophy at the French-Australian School in Canberra. Between 1995 and 1998, he taught Philosophy at Paris IV-Sorbonne. In 1998, he came to Australia to settle with his Australian partner. He has been teaching at Macquarie University since 2002.

He is a member of the editorial board of Critical Horizons, foreign correspondent for Actuel Marx, reviewer for the yearly review of Hegelian studies, Bulletin de Litérature Hégélienne, published by Archives de Philosophie.

 

Teaching

Jean-Philippe teaches the following units:

  • PHIL131 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
  • PHIL238 Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • PHIL254 Freedom and Alienation
  • PHIL351 Social Philosophy
  • PHIL356 Contemporary European Philosophy
  • PHIL365 Philosophy and Cinema

Selected publications

Books

Rancière. Key Concepts . Stocksfield Hall, Acumen, forthcoming, 2010.

New Philosophies of Labour, co-edited with Nicholas Smith, Leiden, Brill, forthcoming, 2009.

Beyond Communication. A Critical Study of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy, Leiden, Brill, 2009.

Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory , eds Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge, John Rundell and Robert Sinnerbrink, Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Critique Today , eds Robert Sinnerbrink, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Nicholas Smith, Peter Schmiedgen, Leiden, Brill, 2006.

Lecons sur le Droit Naturel et la Science de l'Etat . Paris, Vrin, 2002. Translation, with presentation and notes, of Hegel's 1817 Heidelberg lectures on the Philosophy of Right.

Chapters in Edited Collections

"Merleau-Ponty et la Reconnaissance", in Miriam Bankovski ed., Théories de la reconnaissance et Philosophie française: Vers la Reconstitution d’un Dialogue, forthcoming

"Critical Theory" in Mark Bechir ed, Encyclopaedia of Political Theory, Sage, forthcoming 2010.

‘The Political Core of Merleau-Ponty’s Late Philosophy’, in Jack Reynolds et al. eds, Textures, Lexington Books, forthcoming.

‘Are cooperation and expression valid norms for a contemporary critique of work?’, in Nicholas H. Smith and Jean-Philippe Deranty eds, New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009.

"Reflective critical theory: a systematic reconstruction of Axel Honneth's social philosophy", forthcoming in Danielle Petherbridge (ed) The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth , Leiden, Brill, 2009.

"Critique of political economy and contemporary critical theory: a defence of Honneth's theory of recognition", forthcoming in H.-C. Schmidt-am-Busch and C. Zurn (eds), The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives , Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2009.

With Emmanuel Renault, "Democratic Agon: striving for distinction or struggle against injustice and domination?", in Andrew Schaap (ed) Law and Agonistic Politics, London, Ashgate, 2009, pp.43-56.

With John Rundell and Danielle Petherbridge, "Themes and Dialogues in Contemporary French Critical Theory", in Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory, Brill, 2007.

With Robert Sinnerbrink and Nicholas Smith, "Critique, Hope, Power: Contemporary Challenges of Critical Theory", Critique Today, Leiden , Brill, 2006.

"Droit et démocratie entre dissolution biopolitique et reconstruction normativiste : Agamben, Foucault, Habermas, Honneth", in Foucault/Habermas. Parcours croisés, confrontations critiques , eds Y. Cusset et S. Haber, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2006.

"Injustice, violence and social struggle. The critical potential of Honneth's theory of recognition", in Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy , (ed) John Rundell, Danielle Petherbridge et al, Leiden, Brill, 2005.

"Le parlement hégélien", in Hegel, penseur du droit , eds J.-F. Kervegan, G. Marmasse, Paris, Presses du CNRS, 2004.

"Mésentente et reconnaissance: Honneth face à Rancière", in Où en est la théorie critique? , eds E. Renault and Y. Sintomer, Paris, La Découverte, 2003.

Articles

With Stéphane Haber, "Philosophie de l'Histoire et Théorie du Parti chez Sartre et Merleau-Ponty", forthcoming in Actuel Marx, 46, 2009

"What is Work? Key Insights from the Psychodynamics of Work", forthcoming in Thesis Eleven.

"Interaction sociale et rapport à soi", forthcoming in Politique et Sociétés.

Existentialist Aesthetics" forthcoming in Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy .

"Work and the precarisation of existence", European Journal of Social Theory , 11(4), 2008, 443-463 .

"Witnessing the Inhuman: Merleau-Ponty or Agamben", South Atlantic Quarterly , 107(1), 2008.

"Democratic Aesthetics: On Jacques Rancière's Latest Work", Critical Horizons , 8(2), 2007.

"Vie nue, vie ethique, pouvoir souverain : l'ontologie politique entre Hegel et Agamben", Hegel-Jahrbuch , 2007.

With Emmanuel Renault, "Politicising Honneth's Ethics of Recognition", Thesis Eleven , vol. 88, 2007.

"Repressed Materiality. Retrieving the Materialism in Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition", Critical Horizons , vol. 7, 2006.

"Adorno's other son: Derrida and the future of Critical Theory", Social Semiotics , 16(3), 2006.

"Hegel's social theory of value", The Philosophical Forum , 36(3), 2005.

"The loss of nature in Axel Honneth's theory of recognition. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty", Critical Horizons , vol. 6, 2005.

"Les horizons marxistes de l'ethique de la reconnaissance", Actuel Marx , no.38, 2005.

"Agamben's challenge to normative theories of modern rights", Borderlands , 3(1), 2004.

"American and European intellectuals at war", Contretemps 4, 2004.

"Phenomenology of the cinematic image: an Hegelian perspective", Literature and Aesthetics , 14(2), 2004, 7-23.

"Injustice, violence and social struggle. The critical potential of Honneth's theory of recognition", Critical Horizons , Vol. 1-2, 2004.

"Conceptualising social inequality: recognition or redistribution?", Social Inequality Today: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, eds N. Smith, M. Fine, Macquarie University, 2003.

"Ranciere in contemporary political ontology", Theory and event , vol.6, no4, 2003.

"Jacques Ranciere's contribution to the ethics of recognition", Political Theory , vol.31, no1, 2003, 136-156.

"Interpretations politiques et speculatives des Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts" , Archives de Philosophie , vol.65(3), 2002, 441-462.

"Hegel's parliamentarianism: some unexpected features in Hegel's theory of political institutions", Owl of Minerva , vol.32(2), 2001, 107-133.

"La lettre de l'esprit : litteralite et dialectique dans Othello", Theatres du Monde , vol.11, 2001, 87-102.

"'The son of civil society': tensions in Hegel's account of womanhood", The Philosophical Forum , vol.31(2), 2000, 145-162.

"Philosophie et societe : le statut de la femme dans l'idealisme allemand", Etudes Philosophiques , no 1, 2000, 75-104.

"Negative dialectic in Othello" , Literature and Aesthetics , vol.9, 1999, 53-70.

"Hegel a l'E.N.S.", La Pensee , 1995, 67-75.

Reviews

Robert Sinnerbrink, Understanding Hegelianism (Stocksfield, Acumen. 2007), Bulletin de Litterature Hegelienne XVIII, Archives de Philosophie, 72(2), 2009.

Thom Brooks, Hegel’s Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Bulletin de Litterature Hegelienne XVIII, Archives de Philosophie, 72(2), 2009.

Emmanuel Renault, Souffrances sociales: sociologie, psychologie et politique (Paris, La Découverte, 2008), Critical Horizons, 9(2), 2008.

Michael Allen Fox, The Accessible Hegel (Humanity Books, 2005), Archives de Philosophie, Bulletin de litterature hegelienne XVI, vol. 69(4), 2006.

Heinz Kimmerle, G.W.F. Hegel interkulturell gelesen (Traugott Bautz, 2005), Archives de Philosophie, Bulletin de litterature hegelienne XVI, vol.69(4), 2006.

Kimberly Hutchtings, Hegel and feminist philosophy (Polity Press, 2003), Archives de Philosophie, Bulletin de litterature hegelienne XV, vol.68(4), 2005.

Jacques Ranciere, The flesh of words. The politics of writing (Stanford University Press, 2004), Philosophy in review, vol.25(6), 2005.

Jacques Ranciere, The politics of aesthetics (Continuum, 2004), forthcoming, Philosophy in review, vol. 25(6), 2005.

Adrian Peperzak, Modern freedom. Hegel's legal, moral and political philosophy (Kluwer, 2001), Archives de Philosophie, Bulletin de litterature hegelienne XV, vol. 67(4), 2004.

Elliot Jurist, Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche. Philosophy, culture and agency (MIT Press, 2000), Archives de philosophie, Bulletin de litterature hegelienne XV, vol. 67(4), 2004.

Dudley Knowles, Hegel and the Philosophy of Right ( London: Routledge, 2002), Australian Journal of Political Science, 39(3), November 2003.

Johannes Erhard, Du droit du peuple a faire la revolution, Etudes Philosophiques, 1999.

Translations

Axel Honneth, "The Irreducibility of Progress: Kant's Account of the Relationship between Morality and History", with Robert Sinnerbrink, Critical Horizons , 8(1), pp. 1-17.

Claude Gautier, "The Renewal of Critique in Neo-Capitalism", Critical Horizons , 8(1), pp. 116-129.

Jacques Rancière, "The Ethical Turn in Aesthetics and Politics", Critical Horizons , 7, 2006, pp. 27-46.

Stéphane Haber, "Discourse Ethics and The Problem of Nature", Critical Horizons , 7, 2006, pp. 165-182.

Current research

Jean-Philippe continues to write on Hegel (aesthetics, social and political philosophy). His main current research project is a critical evaluation of Axel Honneth's ethics of recognition. He also writes on contemporary European political philosophy (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, Ranciere, etc.).

He is review editor of Critical Horizons.

Administrative responsibilities

  • Deputy Head of Department
  • Department Representative on Faculty Space Committee
  • Library Representative (Second Semester 09).

Contact details

Location: Building W6A Room 728
Phone: (61 2) 9850 6773
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: jean-philippe.deranty@mq.edu.au
Office hours: Mon 2-4; Thur 2-3

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