David West
Political Science and International Relations
School of Social Sciences, Copland Bldg #24
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian National University ACT 0200

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COURSE INFORMATION
 
 
2010 1st Semester Contemporary Political Theory (POLS2063)
2010 2nd Semester Ideas in Politics (POLS1003)
2011 1st Semester Frankfurt School and Habermas (POLS2076)
2011 2nd Semester Academic Leave
2012 1st Semester Long Service Leave
2012 2nd Semester Ideas in Politics (POLS1003)
2013 1st Semester Contemporary Political Theory (POLS2063)
2013 2nd Semester

Global Social Movements (POLS2064) 

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contemporary Political Philosophy
Positive Freedom, Politics and Culture, Cultural Rights, Hannah Arendt.

Continental Philosophy
Frankfurt School and Habermas

Philosophy and Sexuality

Social Movements
Theories of new social movements, green movement, women's movement, gay and lesbian movements.

Making Changes
A discussion of social and political change.

Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought
Table of Contents
Go to Sexuality Studies web page.
Go to Reason and Sexuality - An Online Bibliography.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

Books

Authenticity and Empowerment (full text available in pdf format) (Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1990), 198 pp, index, bibliography.

An Introduction to Continental Philosophy (Polity Press, Cambridge and Blackwell, US, 1996), ISBN 0 7456 1185 0 (paperback), 288pp,  index, bibliography.

Kita Avrupasi Felsefesine Giris:  Rousseau, Kant, Hegel’den Foucault ve Derrida’ya, translated into Turkish by Ahmet Cevizci (Paradigma, Istanbul, 1998), 333 pp.;  first published as An Introduction to Continental Philosophy (see above).

Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought (Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2005). Cover.

Continental Philosophy: An Introduction (Polity Press, Cambridge and New York, forthcoming [2010]), 2nd edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy (see above).

Social Movements in Global Politics – Politics in Action (Polity Press, Cambridge, forthcoming [2012]).
 

Articles and Chapters

‘Power and Formation:  New foundations for a radical concept of power’, in Inquiry, 1987, No. 1, pp. 137-154.

‘The Contribution of Continental Philosophy’ in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, eds Philip Pettit and Robert E. Goodin (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1993), pp. 39-71.

‘Spinoza on Positive Freedom’, Political Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, June, 1993, pp. 284-296.

’Liberal Polity or Just Society?’, Political Theory Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 2, Dec 1995, pp. 7-19.

‘Beyond Social Justice and Social Democracy:  Positive freedom and cultural rights’ in D. Boucher and P. Kelly, eds Social Justice:  From Hume to Walzer (Routledge, London and New York, 1998).

‘Plato’, ‘St. Thomas Aquinas’, ‘Jeremy Bentham’, ‘Arthur Schopenhauer’, ‘J. A. Symonds’, ‘Eduard Bernstein’, ‘Magnus Hirschfeld’ and ‘Sigmund Freud’ in Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History:  From Antiquity to World War II, ed. Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (Routledge, London and New York, 2001).

‘A. S. Neill’, ‘Jean-Paul Sartre’ and ‘Herbert Marcuse’ in Who’s Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History:  From World War II to the Present Day, ed. Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (Routledge, London and New York, 2001).

‘Spinoza on Positive Freedom’ in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Jennifer Baise (Gale Group, 2001).

‘Spinoza on Positive Freedom’ in Spinoza:  Critical assessments, ed. Genevieve Lloyd (Routledge, London and New York, forthcoming).

‘Georg Gadamer’ in Key Contemporary Social Theorists, ed. Anthony Elliott and Larry Ray (Blackwell, Oxford and New York, forthcoming).

'New Social Movements' in Handbook of Political Theory, ed. Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas (Sage Publications, London and Thousand Oaks, CA, 2004)

‘The Contribution of Continental Philosophy’ in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Vol. I, ed. R. E. Goodin, P. Pettit & T. Pogge (Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 2007), 2nd Edition (approx. 17,000 words), Ch. 2, pp. 36-68.

‘Informal Public Leadership: The Case of Social Movements’ in Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices, ed. P. t’Hart and J. Uhr (Canberra, ANU E Press, 2008) (ISBN 978-1-9215-3630-4), pp. 133-144.

‘Reason, Sexuality and the Self in Spinoza’ in Feminist Interpretations of Benedict de Spinoza, ed. M. Gatens (Penn State Press, University Park, PA, 2009) (ISBN 978-0-271-03516-1), pp. 107-24.

 

Book Reviews and Miscellaneous Articles

‘Review of Roy Hattersley, Choose Freedom’, in Interlink, Spring, 1987.

‘AIDS and morals’ in Interlink, Autumn, 1987.

‘Socialists, autonomy and pleasure’ in Interlink, Oct./Nov, 1988.

David Held, Political Theory and the Modern State in Political Theory Newsletter, March, 1991.

Ian Shapiro, Political Criticism in Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 26, No. 3, November, 1991.

A. Phillips Griffiths, ed. Contemporary French Philosophy and Raoul Mortley, French Philosophers in Conversation in Thesis 11, No. 34, 1992.

O. Kurer, John Stuart Mill in Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 3, November, 1992.

C. Norris, Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory in Thesis 11, 38, 2, 1994, pp. 178-81.

Habermas, Hoy, McCarthy and Bronner in Thesis 11, 45, 1996, pp. 129-31.

Andrew Vincent (ed.), Political Theory:  Tradition and Diversity in Political Theory Newsletter, v. 9, no. 1, March 1998, pp. 79-81.

William Connolly, The Ethos of Pluralization in Philosophy in Review/ Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Volume 18, Number 2, April 1998, pp. 88-90.

Review of Ronald Beiner, Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit:  Essays in Contemporary Theory in Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 1, 1999, pp. 129-30 (ISBN 1036-1146/99/010095).

Review of Tim Hayward, Political Theory and Ecological Values and Douglas Torgerson, The Promise of Green Politics:  Environmentalism and the Public Sphere in Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2000, pp. 564-5 (ISSN 1036-1146).

Review of Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Political in Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 36,  No. 2, 2001.

Review of Charles Jones, Global Justice: Defending cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1999) in Ethics, April 2002, Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 618-21.

Review of J. Habermas, The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2001) in Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2003 (forthcoming)

Review of John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb, eds, Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader (Routledge, London and New York, 2004) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004.05.10, online at http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2004/5/west-abromeit.html.

Review of S. Maddison & S. Scalmer, Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006) in Australian Journal of Political Science (Sept. 2006).

Introduction to S. Mendus, Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism (Freilich Foundation, Canberra, 2008), ISBN 978-0-646-50185-7, pp. i-iv.

‘Climate’s Challenge to Liberalism’ at Inside Story, 20 May 2009 (http://inside.org.au/climate-challenge-to-liberalism) and Canberra Times (Public Sector Informant), Tuesday 2nd June 2009, pp. 6-7.

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David West - Room 1167, Copland Bldg #24
Political Science and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts
Australian National University
Canberra   ACT 0200
Australia

E-Mail:  David.West@anu.edu.au

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CONSULTATION TIMES

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CONSULTATION TIMES

Second Semester, 2010

 

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Last updated 22 June 2010