Professor Marguerite La Caze
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Marguerite La Caze

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Background

Professor Marguerite La Caze’s research interests include: European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film.

Professor La Caze holds a BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); and PhD (UQ), and is an Australian Research Fellow 2003-2007. She held an ARC Discovery Grant 2015-2018 on ‘Ethical Restoration After Oppressive Violence: A Philosophical Account’ and was a visiting Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2022.

Her current research projects include:

  • Film philosophy and everyday resistance
  • Ontologies of force: Violence, non-violence, and resistance
  • Conscientious objection in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life
  • European political cinema
  • Finitude in Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death and Mia Hansen-Love's One Fine Morning

Marguerite has successfully supervised 30 PhD and Master’s students on a wide range of topics and is currently supervising students on projects including analogy and philosophical reasoning, authenticity and politics, on the work of Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir on political judgment, on the emotion of shame, on non-violence and resistance in Australian and Indian texts, on the work of Monique Wittig, critical phenomenology and abortion.

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Professor Marguerite La Caze is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Philosophy

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Research) of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • European philosophy

    Including ethics and political philosophy, philosophy of the emotions, and philosophy and film.

  • Feminist philosophy

    Including feminist political theory and ethics.

Research impacts

Marguerite’s research in European and feminist philosophy, including her monographs, The Analytic Imaginary, Integrity and the Fragile Self, Wonder and Generosity and Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence intersect with the areas of gender studies, philosophy and film, and political science. She has a H-Index of 15 and her joint research on integrity is influential for thought on integrity in the fields of business, education, the environment, health, law, the military, and philosophy. Marguerite’s work on racism has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese and her publication in philosophy of the emotions on envy and resentment has been translated into Turkish: https://www.yapikrediyayinlari.com.tr/dergiler/hinc

Her publications on the work of Merleau-Ponty led to her participation in ‘Merleau-Ponty with an Australian Accent’ a video for the series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the English publication of his Phenomenology of Perception in 1962 for Phenomenology of Perception Around the World, with Dr Marilyn Stendera (Deakin), Dr Ryan Gustafsson (Uni Melb), and Dr. Fiona Utley (UNE). It was curated by Prof. David Morris (Concordia University) for the International Merleau-Ponty Circle and the journal Chiasmi International and launched on the 2nd June, 2022. https://vimeo.com/phparw

In connection with her work on Simone de Beauvoir and as Book Review Editor for the journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies Marguerite moderated this diiscussion on Beauvoir as literary theorist with Toril Moi and Ashley Scheu: Youtube channel.

Search Professor Marguerite La Caze’s works on UQ eSpace

96 works between 1994 and 2024
All (96) Journal Article (54) Book Chapter (29) Conference Publication (1) Book (9) Other Outputs (3)

1 - 20 of 96 works

2024

Book

Film and Everyday Resistance

La Caze, Marguerite (2024). Film and Everyday Resistance. Northwestern University Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.18108254

Film and Everyday Resistance

2024

Book Chapter

Unexpected shapes of courage

La Caze, Marguerite (2024). Unexpected shapes of courage. Psychosocial and cultural perspectives on the war in Ukraine. (pp. 251-260) edited by Bohdan Shumylovych and Magdalena Zolkos. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003449096-14

Unexpected shapes of courage

2024

Journal Article

What is Philosophy?

Caze, Marguerite La (2024). What is Philosophy?. Philosophy, Politics and Critique, 1 (1), 70-73. doi: 10.3366/ppc.2024.0018

What is Philosophy?

2024

Book Chapter

Marjorie Glicksman Grene and existentialism's important truths

La Caze, Marguerite (2024). Marjorie Glicksman Grene and existentialism's important truths. Reading Continental philosophy and the history of thought. (pp. 25-39) edited by Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.

Marjorie Glicksman Grene and existentialism's important truths

2023

Book Chapter

The ‘Continental’ tradition

Caze, Marguerite La (2023). The ‘Continental’ tradition. The Kantian mind. (pp. 499-512) edited by Sorin Baiasu and Mark Timmons. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003406617-57

The ‘Continental’ tradition

2023

Journal Article

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

La Caze, Marguerite (2023). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 33 (2), 335-336. doi: 10.1163/25897616-bja001

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

2023

Book Chapter

Young, Iris Marion: Political Philosophy

La Caze, Marguerite (2023). Young, Iris Marion: Political Philosophy. Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. (pp. 3667-3671) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6519-1_48

Young, Iris Marion: Political Philosophy

2023

Journal Article

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

Caze, Marguerite La (2023). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 34 (1), 141-142. doi: 10.1163/25897616-bja10085

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

2022

Journal Article

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 32 (2), 345-346. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03202001

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

2022

Book

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought

Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze eds. (2022). Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought. Lanham, MD United States: Lexington .

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought

2022

Journal Article

Hospitality: the guest replies

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Hospitality: the guest replies. Social Research, 89 (1), 95-114. doi: 10.1353/sor.2022.0006

Hospitality: the guest replies

2022

Journal Article

Grace de Laguna as continental philosopher?

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Grace de Laguna as continental philosopher?. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6 (1), 59-67. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2022.2233187

Grace de Laguna as continental philosopher?

2022

Journal Article

Review of Manu Samnotra, Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xii, 135.)

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Review of Manu Samnotra, Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xii, 135.). The Review of Politics, 84 (1), 158-160. doi: 10.1017/S0034670521000851

Review of Manu Samnotra, Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xii, 135.)

2022

Book Chapter

Jacques Derrida on death, the death penalty, and mourning

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Jacques Derrida on death, the death penalty, and mourning. Political theory on death and dying. (pp. 447-457) edited by Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale and Bruce Peabody. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003005384-45

Jacques Derrida on death, the death penalty, and mourning

2022

Journal Article

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 33 (1), 165-166. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03301001

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

2022

Journal Article

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 32 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03201001

Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions

2021

Book Chapter

Introduction

La Caze, Marguerite and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Introduction. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 1-12) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781474474481-003

Introduction

2021

Book

Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics

Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli eds. (2021). Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474467.001.0001

Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics

2021

Book Chapter

The look of silence and the ethics of atonement

La Caze, Marguerite (2021). The look of silence and the ethics of atonement. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 104-123) edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.

The look of silence and the ethics of atonement

2021

Journal Article

Becoming a victim: A dry white season

La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Becoming a victim: A dry white season. Philosophy Today, 65 (4), 899-916. doi: 10.5840/philtoday202184425

Becoming a victim: A dry white season

Past funding

  • 2015 - 2017
    Ethical restoration after oppressive violence: a philosophical account
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2012
    In pursuit of integrity: Emotional self-assessment in moral life
    UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2004
    Michele le Doeuff: History, Knowledge, Imaginary
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2007
    Wonder And Generosity As Guides To The Ethics And Politics Of Respect For Difference
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Marguerite La Caze is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Inconsistent Abortion: A Critical Phenomenology

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-Violence and Resistance (Studies of Indian and Australian historical contexts through philosophy, film, literature.)

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Bringing Arendt and Beauvoir into Conversation on Political Judgment and Violence: a response to moral and political crises today

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    From Shame to Love

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The relevance of analogical reasoning in canonical philosophy and its connection to philosophical education

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Politics of Authenticity

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Philosophical Exploration into the Ambiguity of Girlhood Friendship and the Role of Intellectual Exchange

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Thread of Deconstruction: Coming to Monique Wittig through Derrida and Cixous

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Subject, Self, and Language: Henri Bergson and Slavoj Zizek

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Joel Katzav

Completed supervision

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  • Aesthetics
  • Ethics
  • European philosophy
  • Philosophy - feminist

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