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Associate Professor Matt Sharpe is the author of The Other Enlightenment (2023) and Camus, Philosophe (2014, 2015), and coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (2021) and Zizek and Politics (2010). He has taught and supervised philosophy for over two decades, and is the author of numerous articles in the history of ideas, classical receptions, critical and psychoanalytic theory, continental theory, and Stoic thought. These articles have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of History of Philosophy, Telos, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, Journal of Early Modern Studies, Philosophy & Literature, Review of Politics, Thesis Eleven, Political Theory, Continental Philosophy Review, Philosophical Papers, Sophia, Poetics Today, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Philosophy Today, Critical Horizons, New Formations, The European Legacy, Angelaki, Law & Critique. He has also written extensively for The Conversation, and was awarded the 2022 Australasian Association of Philosophy media award. Associate Professor Sharpe is also actively involved in the modern Stoic community, speaking at Stoicon events, writing for popular magazines, and coorganising the Australian Stoicon-X events.
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Dr Leah McGarrity Lecturer |
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