Overview
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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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Masters (Research) of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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European philosophy
Including ethics and political philosophy, philosophy of the emotions, and philosophy and film.
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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.
Works
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2021
Journal Article
Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 31 (2), 337-338. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03102002
2021
Book Chapter
Introduction
La Caze, Marguerite and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Introduction. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 1-11) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
2021
Journal Article
Cocktails more lethal than Molotovs: freedom, indestinacy, and responsibility in Gandhi and Philosophy
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Cocktails more lethal than Molotovs: freedom, indestinacy, and responsibility in Gandhi and Philosophy. Episteme (4).
2020
Journal Article
Realism as resistance the case of wadjda (2013)
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Realism as resistance the case of wadjda (2013). Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 25 (5), 156-170. doi: 10.1080/969725X.2020.1807148
2020
Book Chapter
Hopeless love: Camus and Le Premier Homme
La caze, Marguerite (2020). Hopeless love: Camus and Le Premier Homme. Brill's companion to Camus: Camus among the philosophers. (pp. 435-451) edited by Matthew Sharpe, Maciej Kałuża and Peter Francev. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004419247_022
2020
Journal Article
Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 30 (2), 367-368. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03002007
2020
Book Chapter
Chile 1988: trauma and resistance in Pablo Larraín’s No (2012)
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Chile 1988: trauma and resistance in Pablo Larraín’s No (2012). Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. 285-307) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_14
2020
Journal Article
Note from the Book Review Editor/ Note de la responsable des recensions
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Note from the Book Review Editor/ Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 31 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03101004
2019
Journal Article
'I've Never Met A Me': identity and philosophy in D'Ailleurs, Derrida
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). 'I've Never Met A Me': identity and philosophy in D'Ailleurs, Derrida. Derrida Today, 12 (2), 152-170. doi: 10.3366/drt.2019.0207
2019
Journal Article
Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 30 (1), 177-179. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03001006
2019
Book Chapter
Judging in times of crisis: wonder, admiration, and emulation
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). Judging in times of crisis: wonder, admiration, and emulation. The moral psychology of admiration. (pp. 129-148) edited by Alfred Archer and André Grahle. London, United Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield International.
2019
Book
Contemporary perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: on what cannot be touched
Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos eds. (2019). Contemporary perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: on what cannot be touched. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
2019
Book
Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
2018
Journal Article
Teaching and learning guide for Iris Marion's Young's legacy for feminist theory
La Caze, Marguerite (2018). Teaching and learning guide for Iris Marion's Young's legacy for feminist theory. Philosophy Compass, 13 (6), e12500. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12500
2018
Book
Phenomenology and forgiveness
Marguerite La Caze ed. (2018). Phenomenology and forgiveness. London, Unite Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield International.
2017
Journal Article
It’s easier to lie if you believe it yourself: Derrida, Arendt, and the modern lie
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). It’s easier to lie if you believe it yourself: Derrida, Arendt, and the modern lie. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 13 (2), 193-210. doi: 10.1177/1743872113485032
2017
Book Chapter
Emotional Enlightenment: Kant on love and the beautiful
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). Emotional Enlightenment: Kant on love and the beautiful. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Philosophy, and Politics. (pp. 199-219) edited by Geoff Boucher. Lanham MD, United States: Lexington Books.
2017
Book Chapter
Young, Iris Marion: political philosophy
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). Young, Iris Marion: political philosophy. Encyclopedia of the philosophy of law and social philosophy. (pp. 1-5) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_48-1
2017
Book Chapter
Pretending peace: provisional political trust and sincerity in Kant and Améry
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). Pretending peace: provisional political trust and sincerity in Kant and Améry. Sincerity in politics and international relations. (pp. 156-172) edited by Sorin Baiasu and Sylvie Loriaux. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203762257-11
2016
Journal Article
The language of violence: chiastic encounters
La Caze, Marguerite (2016). The language of violence: chiastic encounters. Sophia, 55 (1), 115-127. doi: 10.1007/s11841-016-0519-z
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Inconsistent Abortion: A Critical Phenomenology
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
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Doctor Philosophy
Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-Violence and Resistance (Studies of Indian and Australian historical contexts through philosophy, film, literature.)
Principal Advisor
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
The relevance of analogical reasoning in canonical philosophy and its connection to philosophical education
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Authenticity
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
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Doctor Philosophy
The Thread of Deconstruction: Coming to Monique Wittig through Derrida and Cixous
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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Doctor Philosophy
Subject, Self, and Language: Henri Bergson and Slavoj Zizek
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Joel Katzav
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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
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Vulnerability: A Beginning. The Ethical and Political Potential of The Blush and Embarrassment.
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Risk, Violence and Subjectivity: A Beauvoirian Critique
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker, Dr Christine Daigle
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-duality: Responses to Nihilism from Nietzsche to Camus
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
A Camusian Ethic for Reconciliation: Forgiveness and Grief in Australia, New Zealand and Rwanda
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
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2019
Master Philosophy
Beyond the Independent Woman: A Reading of Simone de Beauvoir's When Things of the Spirit Come First with The Second Sex
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Joe Hardwick, Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Accommodating thrown-being in the world
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Responding to the Other: Derrida, Habermas and the Transformation of Reason and the Political
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
An Examination of the Presence and Role of Plato in the Work of Jacques Derrida
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor William Grey
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Beyond Dominant Paradigms of Motherhood and the Feminine: In Search of an Alternative Western Meta-Physics of the Feminine "Other"
Principal Advisor
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2009
Master Philosophy
The Buddha's second renunciation: doubt, groundlessness and autonomy in contemporary Western Buddhism
Principal Advisor
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
DUTY, BEAUTY, DELIGHT AND HAPPINESS: MOTIVATIONS FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
THE MORAL LIMITS OF VIOLENCE, WAR & REVOLUTION: A SARTREAN ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Evil: From the Banal to the Radical
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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Doctor Philosophy
The myth of reason: a study of Jurgen Habermans' theory of communicative action
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Work in Progress: The Existential Phenomenology of Work
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
A philosophical inquiry into self-destruction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Women's Law: Luce Irigaray on Sexed Rights and Responsibilities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Carole Ramsey, Dr Laura Roberts, Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The Creativity of Virtue: Nietzsche's Ethical and Aesthetic Reflections on the Existential Tension between Singularity and Multiplicity
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Women, Difference, and 'Politics': Reconceptualising Women's Non-Institutional and Non-Party Political Activity to Identify Women's Radical Political Subjectivities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Laura Roberts, Dr Liz Mackinlay
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Disruptive Philosophies: Eco-rational education and the epistemology of place
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
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2018
Master Philosophy
After Misology: Speculations on Kant, Heidegger, and Deleuze.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Hannah Arendt, Utopia and the Ideology of Modernity: An Existential Exploration
Associate Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Adaptive demarchy: a flexible model of deliberative democracy for an uncertain political context
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
An Alchemy of Radical Love: Luce Irigaray's Ontology of Sexuate Difference
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2012
Master Philosophy
A Philosophical Investigation of Entertainment
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
The role of askesis in the life and work of Albert Camus
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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Doctor Philosophy
RE-EVALUATING HEGEL: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICS, OTHERNESS AND LOVE
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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