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
History of Political Thought
Modern European and American political thought and theory, including the reception of pre-modern political ideas in the modern period
Political Theology
Exchanges between the religious and political spheres in concept formation
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.
