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Dr Jean-Philippe Deranty Lecturer
Dr Jean-Philippe Deranty Lecturer,
Department of Philosophy
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Jean-Philippe.Deranty@scmp.mq.edu.au |
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I was educated in France (Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris). I also spent two years in Germany (Hegel Archive in Bochum and Freie-Universität in Berlin) to research for my PhD, which was a comparative, genetic study of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Between 1995 and 1998, I taught Philosophy at Paris IV-Sorbonne. I have been teaching at Macquarie University since 2002.
In terms of philosophical tradition, I write mainly on Hegel and post-Hegelian thought, and recent French philosophy. My research interests lie mainly in French and German philosophy, social and political philosophy, recognition and work.
Research Interests
My current research focuses more specifically on two topics that are directly related to CSRI activities:
I am currently looking at the coherence and importance of Honneth’s project by portraying it as a fully-fledged attempt at rejuvenating the project of social and political critique, on the basis of a restored philosophical anthropology. I emphasise the potential of the ethics of recognition to provide an alternative theory of justice and an original critique of political liberalism. I stress the radicality of this model that makes the “experience of injustice” not just the normative but even the epistemic guideline of social theory. This latter dimension of Honneth’s thought makes it particularly relevant to current research in the sociology of labour and social movements. It also makes it a worthy partner for a dialogue with other theories of politics and democracy. In this book, I also provide an immanent critique of Honneth’s model by stressing the abstract nature of his notions of identity, rights and praxis, and suggesting that his early reference to Feuerbach and the young Marx could prevent such abstractions.
My interest in theories of intersubjectivity and the social has alerted me to the growing interest in France for a renewed study of the theory of value. This interdisciplinary research brings together contemporary critiques of mainstream economics, economic anthropologists influenced by Mauss, and social philosophers critical of the liberal paradigm. These authors converge towards a social definition of economic value grounded in the moral and cultural aspects of the notion. I am currently writings a series of articles to take position in this debate from a neo-Hegelian perspective. I see this as an attempt to develop the theory of recognition in the direction of a renewed critique of political economy.
Current Research Projects
Applying the ethics of recognition: work and the social bond
A/Prof Nicholas Smith; Dr Jean-Philippe Deranty – ARC Discovery
This ARC project in social philosophy proposes that societies can flourish only when all members of the community are recognised in their skills and identity. As a consequence, all sections of social life, not only political participation but also the family and the economy, rely on the fulfilment of specific demands of recognition. The project focuses on the relations of recognition that underpin the economic order, and in particular asks what relations need to be in place for work to be a positive experience. The project combines philosophical analysis of key notions with an examination of recent empirical studies to throw light on the changing world of work.
Publications
Books (single-authored)
Forthcoming. 2008. Beyond Communication. Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition. Leiden: Brill.
2002. Leçons sur le droit naturel et la science de l’Etat. Paris, Vrin. Translation, with presentation and notes, of Hegel’s 1817 Heidelberg lectures on the Philosophy of Right (300 pages).
Books (co-authored)
2007. with D. Petherbridge, J. Rundell and R. Sinnerbrink. Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory. Leiden: Brill.
2006. with R. Sinnerbrink, N. Smith and P. Schmiedgen. Critique Today, Leiden: Brill.
Journal Articles
2008. 'Witnessing the Inhuman: Merleau-Ponty or Agamben'. South Atlantic Quarterly, 107(1).
2007. 'Vie nue, vie ethique, pouvoir souverain : l’ontologie politique entre Hegel et Agamben'. Hegel-Jahrbuch.
2007. with E. Renault. 'Politicising Honneth's Ethics of Recognition'. Thesis Eleven, 88, pp. 92-111.
2006. 'Repressed Materiality. Retrieving the Materialism in Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition'. Critical Horizons, 7.
2006. 'Adorno’s other son: Derrida and the future of Critical Theory'. Social Semiotics, 16(3), pp. 421-433.
2005. 'Hegel's social theory of value'. Philosophical Forum, 36(3), pp. 207-331.
2005. 'The loss of nature in Axel Honneth's theory of recognition. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty'. Critical Horizons, 6, pp. 153-181.
2005. with R. Sinnerbrink and N. Smith. 'Critique Hope, Power: Challenges of Contemporary Critical Theory', Critical Horizons, 6, pp. 1-21.
2005. 'Les horizons marxistes de l' ethique de la reconnaissance'. Actuel Marx, no. 38.
2004. '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), pp. 7-23.
2004. 'Injustice, violence and social struggle. The critical potential of Honneth's theory of recognition'. Critical Horizons, 5, pp. 297-322.
2003. 'Rancière in contemporary political ontology'. Theory and Event, 6(4).
2003. 'Jacques Rancière’s contribution to the ethics of recognition'. Political Theory, 31(1), pp. 136-156.
2002. 'Interprétations politiques et spéculatives des Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts'. Archives de Philosophie, 65(3), pp. 441-462.
2001. 'Hegel’s parliamentarianism: some unexpected features in Hegel’s theory of political institutions'. Owl of Minerva, 32(2), pp. 107-133.
2001. 'La lettre de l'esprit : litteralite et dialectique dans Othello'. Theatres du Monde, 11, pp. 87-102.
2000. 'The son of civil society’: tensions in Hegel's account of womanhood'. The Philosophical Forum, 31(2), pp. 145-162.
2000. 'Philosophie et societe : le statut de la femme dans l'idealisme allemande'. Etudes Philosophiques, 1, pp. 75-104.
1999. 'Negative dialectic in Othello'. Literature and Aesthetics, 9, pp. 53-70.
Book Chapters
2007. with J. Rundell and D. Petherbridge. 'Themes and Dialogues in Contemporary French Critical Theory', in Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory. Leiden: Brill.
2006. with R. Innerbrink and N. Smith. 'Critique, Hope, Power: Challenges of Contemporary Critical Theory', in Critique Today. Leiden: Brill.
2006. 'The Loss of Nature in Azel Honneth's Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty', in Critique Today. Leiden: Brill.
2006. 'Droit et democratie entre dissolution biopolitique et reconstruction normativiste: Agamben, Foucault, Habermas, Honneth', in Y. Cusset et S. Haber (eds.) Foucault/Habermas. Parcours croises, confrontations critiques. Paris: CNRS Editions.
2005. 'Injustice, violence and social struggle. The critical potential of Honneth's theory of recognition', in J. Rundell, D. Petherbridge et al. (eds.) Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy. Leiden: Brill.
2004. 'Le parlement hégélien', in J.-F. Kervegan, G. Marmasse (eds.) Hegel, penseur du droit. Paris: Presses du CNRS.
2003. 'Mésentente et reconnaissance: Honneth face à Rancière', in E. Renault and Y. Sintomer (eds.) Où en est la théorie critique?. Paris: La découverte.
Working Papers
'Work and the Precarisation of Existence'.
'What is Work? Key Insights from the Psychodynamics of Work'.
'The social mediation of practical self-relation. Critical and normative implications of contemporary debates on Hegelian recognition', to be published in M. Blanchard and M. Seymour (eds.) The Plural States of Recognition. Forthcoming.
'Critique of political economy and contemporary critical theory: a defence of Honneth’s theory of recognition', chapter under review, in H.-C. Schmidt-am-Busch and C. Zurn (eds.) The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
'Reflective critical theory: a systematic reconstruction of Axel Honneth’s social philosophy', in D. Petherbridge (ed.) The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming.
Conference Papers
2004. 'Jacques Rancière: democracy and aesthetics', Annual conference of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, 17-18 June.
2004. 'Reading Blacklines: a contemporary critical theory by Indigenous Australians', Race and Identity conference, University of New South Wales, 31 July.
2004. 'Politics and life', 'Bios: technology and politics', Research Workshop, UNSW, 5-6 August. I was one of the co-organisers of the conference.
2004. 'Vie nue, vie éthique, pouvoir souverain : l’ontologie politique entre Hegel et Agamben', Congress of the International Hegel Society, Toulouse, 22-26 Sept.
2004. 'Les horizons marxistes de l’éthique de la reconnaissance', International Marx Congress, Paris, 31 Sept.-4 Oct.
2003. 'Rancière in contemporary political theory', Seminar of Philosophy Postgraduate Students, ANU, Canberra, 14 March.
2003. 'American and European intellectuals at war', 'War in Iraq. An Academic Forum', organized by Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, 21 March.
2003. 'Real ideas, real bodies', International Body Modifications Conference, Macquarie University, 21 April.
2003. 'Agamben’s negativistic philosophy and history of rights: a critical evaluation', 'Unassumable responsibility' Conference, ANU, 22-23 September.
2003. 'Conceptualising social inequality: redistribution or recognition?', Social Inequality Today Conference, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, 12 November.
2003. 'Honneth’s Hegel', workshop on recognition, Sydney University, November.
2003. 'Honneth, Fraser and the critique of political economy', Annual conference of the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy, Brisbane, November.
Professional societies, editoral boards
Member of the managing board of the CRSI, member of the Hegel Society of America, member of the editor’s board of the literary/political journal Le passant ordinaire.