Overview
Background
Nicholas Heron is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Queensland. He specialises in modern political thought and theory, including the reception of pre-modern ideas in the modern period. He is the author of Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology (Fordham UP, 2018) and the translator of Giorgio Agamben’s Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Stanford UP, 2015). He is currently researching post-WWII responses to the end-of-history diagnosis.
Prior to joining the School of Political Science and International Studies, he was Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at UQ.
Availability
- Dr Nicholas Heron is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Research interests
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History of Political Thought
Modern European and American political thought and theory, including the reception of pre-modern political ideas in the modern period
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Political Theology
Exchanges between the religious and political spheres in concept formation
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Historiography
Intellectual-historical methods and approaches
Works
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Featured
2023
Book Chapter
One world? History and space in Schmitt’s post-war political theology
Heron, Nicholas (2023). One world? History and space in Schmitt’s post-war political theology. Political theology today: 100 years after Carl Schmitt. (pp. 125-138) edited by Mitchell Dean, Lotte List and Stefan Schwarzkopf. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Featured
2021
Journal Article
The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz’s Dante
Heron, Nicholas (2021). The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz’s Dante. Journal of the History of Ideas, 82 (3), 427-452. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2021.0021
Featured
2018
Book
Liturgical power: between economic and political theology
Heron, Nicholas (2018). Liturgical power: between economic and political theology. New York, NY, United States: Fordham University Press. doi: 10.5422/fordham/9780823278688.001.0001
2025
Book Chapter
Prelinguisticality: Koselleck and the linguistic turn
Heron, Nicholas (2025). Prelinguisticality: Koselleck and the linguistic turn. Hermeneutics between Berlin and Paris: The search for ethics. (pp. 149-173) edited by Tim Mehigan and Christian Moser. Tübingen, Gerrmany: Mohr Siebeck. doi: 10.1628/978-3-16-163927-2
2024
Other Outputs
Critique of Pure Mindlessness
Heron, Nicholas (2024, 02 25). Critique of Pure Mindlessness Sydney Review of Books
2020
Journal Article
A semiotic approach to the history of concepts
Heron, Nicholas (2020). A semiotic approach to the history of concepts. Syndicate.
2017
Other Outputs
70 years on, Primo Levi’s If This is A Man is still a powerful reminder of what it means to be human
Heron, Nicholas (2017, 04 29). 70 years on, Primo Levi’s If This is A Man is still a powerful reminder of what it means to be human The Conversation
2016
Book Chapter
Zoē aiōnios: Giorgio Agamben and the Critique of Katechontic Time
Heron, Nicholas (2016). Zoē aiōnios: Giorgio Agamben and the Critique of Katechontic Time. Agamben and radical politics. (pp. 141-164) edited by Daniel McLoughlin. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
2015
Journal Article
What is a minister? Toward a theory of the instrumental cause
Heron, Nicholas (2015). What is a minister? Toward a theory of the instrumental cause. The New Centennial Review, 15 (3), 135-166. doi: 10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.3.0135
2015
Book Chapter
The Ungovernable
Heron, Nicholas (2015). The Ungovernable. Agamben and law. (pp. 367-382) Surrey, England: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315097497
2015
Book
Stasis: civil war as a political paradigm
Agamben, Giorgio and Heron, Nicholas (translator) (2015). Stasis: civil war as a political paradigm. Edinburgh/Stanford: Edinburgh University Press/Stanford University Press.
2011
Book
The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life
Clemens, Justin, Heron, Nicholas and Murray, Alex eds. (2011). The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
2011
Book Chapter
The enigma of Giorgio Agamben
Clemens, Justin, Heron, Nicholas and Murray, Alex (2011). The enigma of Giorgio Agamben. The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life. (pp. 1-8) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
2011
Journal Article
The Ungovernable
Nicholas Heron (2011). The Ungovernable. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 16 (2), 159-174. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2011.591594
2011
Book Chapter
Biopolitics; Dispositif; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Erik Peterson; Subject
Heron, Nicholas (2011). Biopolitics; Dispositif; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Erik Peterson; Subject. The Agamben Dictionary. (pp. 36; 59; 122; 150; 187-39; 61; 123; 151; 189) edited by Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
2011
Book Chapter
Idea of poetry, idea of prose
Heron, Nicholas (2011). Idea of poetry, idea of prose. The work of Giorgio Agamben: law, literature, life. (pp. 97-110) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
2010
Journal Article
Introductory Note on the Concept of Democracy
Giorgio Agamben and Nicholas Heron (trans.) (2010). Introductory Note on the Concept of Democracy. Theory and Event, 13 (1) doi: 10.1353/tae.0.0106
2009
Journal Article
Angels and the general intellect: individuation in Duns Scotus and Simondon
Virno, Paolo and Heron, Nicholas (trans.) (2009). Angels and the general intellect: individuation in Duns Scotus and Simondon. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 7, 58-67.
2008
Book
The work of Giorgio Agamben : law, literature, life
Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray eds. (2008). The work of Giorgio Agamben : law, literature, life. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
2008
Book Chapter
K
Agamben, Giorgio and Heron, Nicholas (trans.) (2008). K. The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life. (pp. 13-27) edited by Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
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