Dr. Alison Ross
Lecturer in Critical Theory
- Qualifications
- Biography
- Research and Graduate Supervision Interests
- Current Undergraduate and Postgraduate Units
- Selected Publications
- Contact Details
Qualifications
PhD (Philosophy, University of Sydney), BA (Philosophy Hons) (Macquarie University)
Biography
Alison Ross previously taught in philosophy departments at the University of Sydney and at the Australian National University. She was a resident at the Cité internationale des arts in the first quarter of 2007
She is the author of The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (Stanford University Press, 2007).
She has recently edited a collection of essays on Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitics for a Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press, January 2008). Her ongoing projects include a study of theories of theatrical representation (in Plato, Rousseau and Rancière) and an analysis of the role of aesthetic experience in moral communication in the post-Kantian literary and philosophical traditions.
Research and Graduate Supervision Interests
- Aesthetics and theories of the fine arts (also, classical and modern theories of theatrical representation)
- Modern European and contemporary European philosophy (especially Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Le Doeuff, Lyotard, Rancière, Foucault and Deleuze)
- Psychoanalysis (especially Freud)
- Political philosophy
Current Undergraduate and Postgraduate Units
PhD and Masters Unit
Critical Theory - A Theorist: Nietzsche
Masters and Honours Unit
Deleuze and Foucault
Undergraduate Units
Introduction to Critical Theory
The Fate of Art: Philosophical Aesthetics and Contemporary Culture
Freud and Feminism
Selected Publications
Monograph
The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (Series: Cultural Memory in the Present) (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2007).
Edited Collection
The Agamben Effect.Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly. Vol. 107, No. 1 (Winter, 2008).
Book Chapters
Michelangelo Antonioni: the Aestheticisation of Time and Experience in ‘The Passenger’. Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema. James Phillips (ed.) Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2008, pp: 40-52.
The Art of the Sublime: Lyotard and the Politics of the Avant-Garde. The Art of the Possible: Jean-François Lyotard and the Presentation of Theory. Nicholas Strobbe (ed.) Duquesne University Press, (forthcoming, 2008).
Gaston Bachelard. Dictionary of Literary Biography: European Cultural Theorists. Vol.26, Paul Hansom (ed.) Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2004, pp: 1-16.
Bachelard, Canguilhem and Epistemology in France (co-authored with Amir Ahmadi). The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, Julian Wolfreys (ed.) Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp: 92-100. Reprinted as: Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem: Epistemology in France. Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide, Julian Wolfreys (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp: 90-98.
Le Doeuff's Renaissance Amorology. Michèle Le Doeuff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice, Max Deutscher (ed.) Humanity Books /Prometheus Press, New York, 2000, pp: 249-279.
Other Publications in Edited Books
Entries on: Desire, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Plato (anti-Platonism), Psychoanalysis (entries on Unconscious, Family, Freud). Entries for The Deleuze Dictionary, Adrian Parr (ed.) Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2005, pp: 63-65, 137-140, 140-142, 208-209, 217-221.
Journal Articles
The Aesthetic Fable: Cinema in Rancière’s Politics of Aesthetics, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, forthcoming, 2009.
Derrida’s Theatre-Writing: From the Theatrical Allegory to Political Commitment. Derrida Today, Vol.1, No.1, 2008, pp: 76-94.
Why is speaking the truth fearless? Courage and danger in Foucault’s analysis of parrhesia. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Issue 4, 2008, pp: 62-75.
Art and the Praxis of Sense Making in Nancy’s ‘First Philosophy’, Research in Phenomenology, Volume 38, No.1, 2008, pp: 18-40.
The Aesthetic Anomaly: Art, Politics and Criticism in Recent European Philosophy (from Adorno to Rancière). Theory@buffalo, Vol.1 No.11, pp: 97-121.
The Work of the Art-Work: Art after Heidegger’s ‘Origin of the Work of Art’. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 37, No.2, May 2006: 191-215.
The Art of the Sublime: Lyotard and the Politics of the Avant-Garde. Philosophy Today, Spring 2005, Vol.49, No.1, pp: 34-47. (Reprinted in The Art of the Possible: Jean-François Lyotard and the Presentation of Theory. Nicholas Strobbe (ed.) Duquesne University Press, 2008).
Historical Undecidability: The Kantian Background to Derrida’s Politics. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol.12, No.4 2004, pp: 375-393.
Errant Beauty: Kant and Derrida on Aesthetic Presentation. International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 33, No.2, 2001, pp: 87-104.
The Kantian Sublime and the Problem of the Political. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2001, pp: 174- 187.
Other Journal Publications: Translations, Introductions and Reviews
Introduction. The Agamben Effect. Special Issue. South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol.107, No.1, 2008, pp: 1-13.
Translation of Monique David-Ménard's "Presentation: Essai sur les Maladies de la Tête; Observations sur le Sentiment du Beau et du Sublime" as “Kant’s An Essay on the Maladies of the Mind and Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime” Hypatia, Special Issue, Contemporary French Women Philosophers, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2000, pp: 82-98.
Introduction to Monique David-Ménard on Kant and Madness. Hypatia, Special Issue, Contemporary French Women Philosophers, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2000, pp: 77-81.
Heidegger’s Politics. Review of James Phillips’ Heidegger’s Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (2005: Stanford University Press, Stanford, California) International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol.14:No.2, 2006: 300-305.
The Ethics of Embodiment. Review of Rosalyn Diprose’s Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (SUNY, Albany, 2002) Cultural Studies Review, Vol.10, No.1, March 2004: 223-225.
Review of Dominique Lecourt’s The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970’s (Verso, London & New York, 2001). Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée. Vol.28, Nos 2-3. November 2001: 336-340.
Review of Tamar Japaridze’s The Kantian Subject: Sensus Communis, Mimesis, Work of Mourning (SUNY, Albany, 2000). International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Vol. 28 (2/3) December 2000: 411-413.
Contact Details
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Building 11
PO Box 11A
Monash University, Melbourne, 3800
AUSTRALIA
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