Dr Michael Ure
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Email: Michael.Ure@monash.edu
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Biography
Michael Ure is a Lecturer in Politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. From 2007 to 2010 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. His research is in the field of political and social theory and modern European philosophy.
Current research
Michael works across two overlapping fields of research: political and social theory and modern European philosophy, in particular Nietzsche studies.
His recent work in social and political theory focuses on the connections between the passions and politics. This research investigates the emotional underpinnings of democracy. He is currently writing a book on the role the emotions play in political reconciliation and restorative justice, Post-Traumatic Societies (Lanham: Lexington Books) and editing a Routledge (London) collection on the history and politics of compassion: The Politics of Compassion with Mervyn Frost (War Studies, King’s College, London). He is also currently developing an international research collaboration on the theme of bio-politics. In late 2011 he is convening a joint Monash-Warwick workshop on the intersection of politics and biology.
In the field of Nietzsche studies he has published Nietzsche’s Therapy (Lanham: Lexington 2008) and he is currently contracted to write Nietzsche: The Gay Science for Cambridge University Press’ Key Texts in Philosophy Series. He is also editing a special issue of the ERA A ranked Journal of Nietzsche Studies, ‘Nietzsche and the Passions’ (with Keith Ansell-Pearson, Warwick).
Publications
Books
Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.
Post-Traumatic Societies: On Reconciliation, Justice and the Emotions, Lanham: Lexington Press, forthcoming.
The Politics of Compassion, Routledge: London (edited, with Mervyn Frost), forthcoming.
Nietzsche’s Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works. Lanham: Lexington Press, 2008.
Refereed journal articles
‘Nietzsche’s Free-Spirit Trilogy and Stoic Therapy’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 38, 60-84, 2009. ERA A rank.
‘Post-Traumatic Societies: On Reconciliation, Justice and the Emotions’, European Journal of Social Theory 11:3, 283-297, 2008. ERA A rank.
The Politics of Mercy, Love & Forgiveness: Nietzsche contra Arendt’, South African Journal of Philosophy Vol. 26:1, 56-69, 2007.
‘Senecan Moods: Foucault and Nietzsche on the Art of the Self’’, Foucault Studies, Issue 4, February, 19-52, 2007.
‘The Irony of Pity: Nietzsche contra Rousseau and Schopenhauer’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 32, 68-91, 2006. ERA A rank.‘Stoic Comedians: Nietzsche and Freud on the Art of Arranging One’s Humours’, Nietzsche-Studien, Bd 34, 186-214, 2005. ERA A rank.
Book chapters
2012 ‘Nietzsche’s Bio-Politics’ in Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.), Nietzsche and Political Thought, Continuum Press. (forthcoming).
2011 ‘Nietzsche’s View From Above’ in Horst Hutter (ed.), Nietzsche and Therapy, (forthcoming).
2010 ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Améry and Nietzsche on Ressentiment’ in Magdalena Zolkos (ed.), Jean Améry: the Philosophy of Catastrophe, Lanham: Lexington Press.
Review articles
2011 Robert Pippin, Nietzsche, Psychology and First Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2010) in Journal of Nietzsche Studies, in press.
2010 Lawrence Hatab, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008) in Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 41, 2010.
2006 Martin Jay, Refractions of Violence (New York: Routledge 2003) in Thesis Eleven 85, 125-130, 2006.
Other publications
Special Journal Issue: ‘Nietzsche and the Passions’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 42, in press 2011. Special guest editor with Keith Ansell-Pearson.
Special Journal Issue: ‘Post-Traumatic Societies’, European Journal of Social Theory 11:3, 283-297, 2008. Special guest editor with Mervyn Frost.
‘Reconciling the Irreconcilable’, Around the Globe, 3:3, 5-7, 40, 2007 (with Paul Muldoon).
Recent grants and fellowships
2011 Monash-Warwick Strategic Funding Initiative for Joint Research, $17,000.
2009 ISL-HCA Australian Academy of Humanities International Fellowship Award, $5000.
2007-2010 University of Queensland Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship.
2007 Deputy-Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Initiative Grant, Monash University, $25,000.
2006 Scanlon Foundation Grant, in conjunction with Professor John Nieuwenhuysen, Professor Andrew Markus and colleagues, $80,000.
2006 Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements Conference Grant, Monash University, $15,000.
Areas of research and supervision
Michael welcomes inquiries from prospective higher degree by research students on political theory and modern European moral and political philosophy, especially on the politics and philosophy of the passions, political reconciliation and restorative justice, bio-politics and any aspect of Nietzsche studies.
Completed theses
Mark Chou, ‘Democracy and Tragedy in Ancient Athens and Today’ (PhD 2010, Political and International Studies, The University of Queensland).Teaching
Michael currently teaches ATS2719/ATS3719 Social Theory.
In 2012 he will be offering two new School of Political and Social Inquiry 2nd/3rd year units: Social and Political Theory and Political Passions.
Professional profile
Michael has a PhD (University of Melbourne) and a BA (Hons) (Monash University).