Postgraduate Prospectus 2009

Social and political thought research information

Research interests are briefly described below.

The main research areas of our faculty include:

• Marx, Hegel, normative foundations of social criticism, recognition theory;
• intellectual history, philosophy of history, historiography;
• Italian political theory and history, history of the left;
• German social theory, critical social theory;
• Habermas, Adorno, discourse ethics, moral theory;
• poststructuralism;
• critical race theory;
• philosophy of social science;
• civil society and contemporary politics;
• cosmopolitan theory, globalisation;
• cultural and historical sociology of modernity; and
• the European cultural and political heritage.

Andrew Chitty Hegel; Marx and Marxism; and contemporary political philosophy. Author of ‘First person plural ontology and praxis’ in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1997); and ‘Recognition and social relations of production’ in Historical Materialism (1998).

Professor Gerard Delanty Social theory and political sociology; modernity in global perspective; social identity, nationalism and citizenship; European societies in transformation; cosmopolitanism. Editor of European Journal of Social Theory.

Gordon Finlayson Critical theory, Hegel, Kant, Habermas, social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Publications include: ‘Adorno on the Ineffable and the Ethical’ in European Journal of Philosophy (2002) and ‘The Theory of Ideology and the Ideology of Theory: Habermas contra Adorno’ in Historical Materialism (2003).

Sam Knafo Global finance; monetary policy; international political economy; imperialism; historical sociology; Marxism; and poststructuralism. Publications include, ‘The gold standard and the origins of the modern international system’ in Review of International Political Economy (2006).

Alana Lentin Race, racism, and anti-racism; social movements and migrant collective action. Publications include Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe (2004); with R Lentin (eds) Race and State (2006); with G Titley (eds) The Politics of Diversity in Europe (2008); Racism: a Beginner’s Guide (2008).

Kathryn MacVarish Historiography, philosophy of history and the history of political thought, particularly in relation to revolution. Currently researching the ideas of repetition, anachronism and progress in philosophies of history.

Darrow Schecter Gramsci; industrial democracy; theories of socialism; and civil society. Author of Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy (1994); and Sovereign States or Political Communities? (2000); Beyond Hegemony: Towards a New Philosophy of Political Legitimacy (2005).

Daniel Steuer Frankfurt School; history and epistemology of science, Goethe, Wittgenstein, and philosophy and literature. Coeditor of a new translation of Otto Weininger’s Sex and Character (2005).

Research interests

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Teaching term dates 2009-2010

Autumn term
5 October 2009 to 11 December 2009

Spring term
11 January 2010 to 19 March 2010

Summer term
19 April 2010 to 25 June 2010