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 Dr Marguerite La Caze


BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); PhD (UQ)

Australian Research Fellow 2003-2007

Office: Forgan Smith E349
Phone: (+61 7) 3365 3443
Email: m.lacaze@uq.edu.au

Teaching
Modern and contemporary European philosophy and ethics, including Ethics and the Passions, Postmodernism and philosophy, Kant and European Philosophy, Philosopy, Sexuality and Self, and Advanced Philosophy.

Research interests
European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, and aesthetics.

Current research projects
Wonder and generosity as guides to the ethics and politics of respect for difference (ARC funded), Michèle Le Dœuff and the epistemic imaginary, terrorism and trauma, responses to evil.

Selected recent publications
 
Books
2003     (co-author) Integrity and the fragile self (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 168.
2002     The analytic imaginary (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp. 194.

 
Papers
Forthcoming “The judgement of the statesperson”, in Danielle Celermajer, Vrasidas Karalis, and Andrew Schaap (eds),. Hannah Arendt and the dilemmas of humanism (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press).
Forthcoming “Derrida: opposing death penalties”, Derrida Today.
Forthcoming “Terrorism and trauma: negotiating Derridean “autoimmunity”’, Philosophy and Social Criticism.
Forthcoming “On orientation in thought: Hannah Arendt and Michèle Le Dœuff”, International Studies in Philosophy.
2008   “Seeing oneself through the eyes of the other: asymmetrical reciprocity and self-respect”, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 23, 3, pp. 118-35.
2008   “Michèle Le Dœuff, feminist epistemology, and the unthought”, Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation 34, 2, pp. 62-79.
2007   “At the intersection: Kant, Derrida, and the relation between ethics and politics”, Political Theory 35, pp.781-805.
2007   “Sartre integrating ethics and politics: the case of terrorism”, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 3, pp. 43-54.
2006   “Should radical evil be forgiven?”, in Tom Mason (ed.), Forensic psychiatry: influences of evil (Totowa: Humana), pp. 273-93.
2006   “Splitting the difference: between Young and Fraser on identity politics”, in Lynda Burns (ed.), Feminist alliances (New York: Rodopi,) pp.151-163.
2004   “If you say so: feminist philosophy and anti-racism”, in Michael Levine and Tamás Pataki (eds), Racism in mind (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp. 261-78.
2002   “Beauvoir and the two ends of life”, in Birgit Christensen et al. (eds), Knowledge power gender: philosophy and the future of the “condition feminine” (Zurich: Chronos), pp. 320-28.
2006   “The asymmetry between apology and forgiveness”, feature article: Theory and Practice, Contemporary Political Theory 5, 4, pp. 447-68.
2005   “Love, that indispensable supplement: Irigaray and Kant on love and respect”, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 20, 3, pp. 92-114.