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.
Availability
- Professor Marguerite La Caze is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
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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2011
Book Chapter
A taste for fashion
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). A taste for fashion. Fashion : Philosophy for everyone : Thinking with style. (pp. 199-214) edited by Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett. Malden, MA, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444345568.ch13
2010
Book Chapter
Feminist philosophy
La Caze, Marguerite (2010). Feminist philosophy. A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 184-188) edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.
2010
Book Chapter
The Judgment of the Statesperson
La Caze, Marguerite (2010). The Judgment of the Statesperson. Power, judgment and political evil : In conversation with Hannah Arendt. (pp. 71-87) edited by Andrew Schaap, Danielle Celermajer and Vrasidas Karalis. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. doi: 10.4324/9781315601854
2009
Journal Article
Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, etc. 2nd Ed. By MICHÈLE LE DŒUFF. Translated by TRISTA SELOUS
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, etc. 2nd Ed. By MICHÈLE LE DŒUFF. Translated by TRISTA SELOUS. Hypatia, 24 (1), 191-195. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.00013_4.x
2009
Journal Article
Derrida: opposing death penalties
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Derrida: opposing death penalties. Derrida Today, 2 (2), 186-199.
2009
Journal Article
Max Deutscher's genre of philosophy
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Max Deutscher's genre of philosophy. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, IV (I), 71-78.
2009
Journal Article
Close encounter: Max Deutscher on genre, the subject and judgement
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Close encounter: Max Deutscher on genre, the subject and judgement. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, 4 (1), 43-44.
2008
Journal Article
Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Self-respect
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2008). Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Self-respect. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 23 (3), 118-135.
2008
Journal Article
Michèle Le Dœuff, Feminist Epistemology, and the Unthought
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2008). Michèle Le Dœuff, Feminist Epistemology, and the Unthought. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 34 (2), 62-79.
2008
Journal Article
Review of Rauna Kuokkanen, 'Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift'
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2008). Review of Rauna Kuokkanen, 'Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift'. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 37, 181-183.
2007
Journal Article
Burdened virtues: Virtue ethics for liberatory struggles
La Caze, Marguerite (2007). Burdened virtues: Virtue ethics for liberatory struggles. Mind, 116 (463), 781-785. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzm781
2007
Journal Article
On orientation in thought: Hannah Arendt and Michele Le Doeuff
La Caze, M. (2007). On orientation in thought: Hannah Arendt and Michele Le Doeuff. International Studies in Philosophy, 39 (4), 77-102. doi: 10.5840/intstudphil200739433
2007
Journal Article
At the intersection: Kant, Derrida and the relation between ethics and politics
La Caze, Marguerite (2007). At the intersection: Kant, Derrida and the relation between ethics and politics. Political Theory, 35 (6), 781-805. doi: 10.1177/0090591707307324
2007
Journal Article
Sartre integrating ethics and politics: The case of terrorism
La Caze, Marguerite (2007). Sartre integrating ethics and politics: The case of terrorism. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy (3), 43-54.
2006
Book Chapter
Should Radical Evil be Forgiven?
La Caze, M M (2006). Should Radical Evil be Forgiven?. Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of evil. (pp. 273-293) edited by T Mason. Totowa: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-006-5_14
2006
Journal Article
The asymmetry between apology and forgiveness
La Caze, M. M. (2006). The asymmetry between apology and forgiveness. Contemporary Political Theory, 5 (1), 447-468. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300259
2006
Book Chapter
Spitting the Difference: Between Young and Fraser on indentity politics'
La Caze, M M (2006). Spitting the Difference: Between Young and Fraser on indentity politics'. Feminist Alliances. (pp. 151-163) edited by L Burns. New York: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401201728_012
2005
Journal Article
Love, that indispensable supplement: Irigaray and Kant on love and respect
La Caze, Marguerite (2005). Love, that indispensable supplement: Irigaray and Kant on love and respect. Hypatia, 20 (3), 92-114. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00488.x
2005
Journal Article
Freedom and the scandal of death
La Caze, M. M. (2005). Freedom and the scandal of death. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 21 (1), 142-154.
2004
Journal Article
Not just visitors: Cosmopolitanism, hospitality, and refugees
La Caze, M. M. (2004). Not just visitors: Cosmopolitanism, hospitality, and refugees. Philosophy Today, 48 (3), 313-324. doi: 10.5840/philtoday200448331
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir and the Failures of Political Judgement
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The Thread of Deconstruction: Coming to Monique Wittig through Derrida and Cixous
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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Doctor Philosophy
The Thread of Deconstruction: Coming to Monique Wittig through Derrida and Cixous
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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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
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
Shame, Love, and Being Seen
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
Shame, Love, and Being Seen
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
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Doctor Philosophy
A Philosophical Exploration into the Ambiguity of Girlhood Friendship and the Role of Intellectual Exchange
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Authenticity: Between Radical Freedom and Genuine Doubt
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Investigating the Agency of Aboriginal Frontier War Memorials
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Fiona Foley
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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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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Shame, Love, and Being Seen
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
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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
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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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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-duality: Responses to Nihilism from Nietzsche to Camus
Principal Advisor
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
A Camusian Ethic for Reconciliation: Forgiveness and Grief in Australia, New Zealand and Rwanda
Principal Advisor
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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
Evil: From the Banal to the Radical
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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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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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
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
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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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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Disruptive Philosophies: Eco-rational education and the epistemology of place
Associate Advisor
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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
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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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