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:
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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

105 works between 1994 and 2025
All (105) Book (11) Journal Article (59) Other Outputs (3) Conference Publication (1) Book Chapter (31)

101 - 105 of 105 works

1999

Journal Article

Should We Strive for Integrity?

Cox, Damian, Levine, M. P. and La Caze, M. (1999). Should We Strive for Integrity?. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 33 (4), 519-530. doi: 10.1023/A:1004614232579

Should We Strive for Integrity?

1999

Journal Article

Review of Margaret Simon's 'Simone de Beauvoir and the second sex: Feminism, race and the origins of Existentialism', New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999

La Caze, Marguerite M. (1999). Review of Margaret Simon's 'Simone de Beauvoir and the second sex: Feminism, race and the origins of Existentialism', New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 14 (4), 175-182.

Review of Margaret Simon's 'Simone de Beauvoir and the second sex: Feminism, race and the origins of Existentialism', New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999

1999

Journal Article

Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. By Margaret A. Simons. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. (Review)

La Caze, Marguerite (1999). Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. By Margaret A. Simons. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. (Review). Hypatia, 14 (4), 175-182. doi: 10.1353/hyp.2005.0025

Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. By Margaret A. Simons. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. (Review)

1996

Other Outputs

The analytic imaginary

La Caze, Marguerite (1996). The analytic imaginary. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2014.544

The analytic imaginary

1994

Journal Article

Simone de Beauvoir and Female Bodies

La Caze, M. (1994). Simone de Beauvoir and Female Bodies. Australian Feminist Studies (20), 91-105.

Simone de Beauvoir and Female Bodies

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

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

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Joe Hardwick

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Inconsistent Abortion: A Critical Phenomenology

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Aurelia Armstrong

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur on the Aporias of Forgiveness: Impossible or Difficult?

    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

    Narratives of Resistance: A Literary Study of Indigenous Australian and Dalit Malayalam Literatures

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Joel Katzav

  • Doctor Philosophy

    DISSEMBLING NATIONHOOD: Constructs of state legitimacy through symbolism, language and discourse

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin

Completed supervision

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  • Aesthetics
  • Ethics
  • European philosophy
  • Philosophy - feminist

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