Biography

Role

Director of Doctoral Studies for the School of History, Art History and Philosophy; see https://studydirect.sussex.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=12443

Convenor of the MA in Literature and Philosophy; see  http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/teaching

The MA is supported by research activities hosted in the Centre for Literature and Philosophy; see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp

I am interested in how reason and value interconnect and the ways in which they shape our lives. Kant and Hegel are central points of reference for my work, but I also engage closely with a range of positions in contemporary philosophy.

My first book, Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment (SUNY 2005), presents an argument for the contemporary relevance and intrinsic vulnerability of Kant's conception of public reason. Understood as a model for autonomous thinking that stipulates real engagement with others, public reasoning forms the basis for a distinctive defense of freedom of spech. Reviews of the book are listed below; see too Kant-Studien 1:101 (2010), review by R. Ziegler pp.115-18.

The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom (OUP 2012) offers a new theory of autonomy as a moral concept that is Kantian in orientation but which provides a new way of addressing recent debates on agency, morality, and practical reasoning. An author-meets-critics session, organised by the Society for German Idealism, was held at the Pacific APA in April 2012.

My current research centres on debates about freedom, causation, normativity, and the explanation of action and of behaviour.

I am editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain a leading journal for research in Hegel and German Idealism, http//hegel-society.org.uk/bulletin

Current DPhil theses: autonomy and ethics; philosophy of literature; philosophy of language and linguistics; aesthetic value.

Student Consultation

Office hours for 2011-12 are publicised in the study direct office hour wiki, please consult your student pages for details. See also outside my door Arts A 27.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2013) Actions as Events and Vice Versa: Kant Hegel and the Concept of History. Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus 2013, 10. ISSN 1613-0472 (Submitted)

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2012) Anthropology, Enlightenment, Reason. In: Continuum Companion to Kant. Continuum.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2012) The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-964615-9 (In Press)

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2011) The proper telos of life: Kant Schiller and having autonomy as an end. Inquiry, 54 (5). pp. 494-511.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2011) What a Kantian Can Know a priori? A Defense of Moral Cognitivism. In: Politics and Metaphysics in Kant. University of Wales Press, pp. 153-174. ISBN 9780708323779

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2011) Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Metaphysics of Morals. In: The Blackwell Companion to Hegel. Blackwell, pp. 23-44.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2010) Doing without Agency: Hegel's Social Theory of Action. In: Hegel on action. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 97-118. ISBN 9780230229082

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2009) The Convergence of Ethics and Aesthetics: Schiller's Concept of the 'Naive' and the Objects of Distant Antiquity. In: Critical Exchange: European Art Criticism of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Peter Lang, pp. 63-80. ISBN 9783039115563

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2007) Modernity with Pictures: Hegel and Gericault. Modernism/modernity, 14 (4). pp. 607-623. ISSN 1071-6068

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2007) Literature and Moral Vision: Autonomism Reconsidered. Philosophical Inquiry, 29 (3-4). pp. 153-167. ISSN 1105-235X

Deligiorgi, Katerina and Inigo-Mora, Isabel (2007) Strategiya ukloneniya v politicheskom intervju: analiz televizionnykh intervju Toni Blera. Politicheskaia Lingvistika, 23 (3). pp. 78-90.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2006) The Role of the 'Plan of Nature' in Kant's Account of History from a Philosophical Perspective. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 14 (3). pp. 451-468. ISSN 0960-8788

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2006) Philosophy and Mercy: Remarks on Cavell and Auden. Literature and Aesthetics, 16 (1). pp. 59-71. ISSN 1036-9368

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2006) Enlightenment on Trial: Kant and the Public Use of Reason.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2006) Grace Guide to Morals? Schiller's Aesthetic Turn in Ethics. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 23 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0740-0675

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2005) Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-6469-5

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2002) Universalisability, Publicity, and Communication: Kant's Conception of Reason. The European Journal of Philosophy, 10 (2). pp. 143-159. ISSN 0966-8373

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2002) Kant, Hegel, and the Bounds of Thought. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 46 (46). pp. 56-71. ISSN 0263-5232

Deligiorgi, Katerina (2001) The Public Tribunal of Political Reason: Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment. In: Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung. Akten des IX. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Berlin.

Deligiorgi, Katerina (1997) Dissatisfied Enlightenment: Certain Difficulties Concerning the Public Use of One's Reason. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (35). pp. 39-53. ISSN 0263-5232