Associate Professor John Grumley
Room S431, Main Quad A14
Ph +612 9351 2465
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Research interests
Contemporary Critical Theory and Theories of Modernity, philosophy of 'mere life'.
Current Teaching
Publications
Books
Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Vortex of History, Pluto Press, London, 2005, 324pp.
History and Totality: Radical Historicism from Hegel to Foucault, Routledge, London, 1989, 241pp.
Edited Books
Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for György Markus, (Eds) Grumley J, Crittenden P, Johnson P Ashgate, London, 2002, 325pp.
Book Chapters
‘From Contingency to Destiny: On Heller’s Existential Ethics’ in Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion (Ed) Katie Tezsakis, Lexington Books, New York, 2009, pp.223-234.
‘Between the Normative and the Empirical: Heller on the Antinomies of Culture’ Ethics as Heritage: Essays on the Philosophy of Agnes Heller (Ed) Boros, J &Vagda M. Brambauer Pecs, Hungary, 2006, pp.43-62.
‘The Paradoxes of Philosophy: Gyorygy Markus at the University of Sydney’ Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for György Markus, (Eds) Grumley J, Crittenden P, Johnson P Ashgate, London, 2002, pp1-12.
‘A Family Quarrel: Markus and Heller on Philosophy’ Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for György Markus, (Eds) Grumley J, Crittenden P, Johnson P Ashgate, London, 2002, pp.49-72.
Articles in Refereed Journals
‘Beyond the Budapest School: György Markus in Australia’ Universitas-Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture Fu Jen University Taiwan, (forthcoming 2012).
‘Antipodean Enlightenment: Markus on Culture’ Critical Horizons (forthcoming 2012).
‘Politics in Dark Times: Arendt and Agamben on Sovereignty and the Camps’ Contemporary Political Theory (forthcoming) 2012.
‘Agnes Heller Finds Her Voice’ Thesis Eleven (forthcoming 2012).
'Dialogue with the Dead: Sebald on Creaturely Life’ European Legacy 16:4, 2011 (6,600 words).
‘Existential Ethics and Bare Life’ European Legacy 13:6 2008 (6,000 words).
‘New Adventures in the Dialectic of Humanism: Todorov, Sebald and Agamben’ Critical Horizons 9:2 2008, 186-210.
‘Agnes Heller and the Question of Humanism’ European Journal of Political Philosophy 6:2, Sage, London 2007, pp.125-140.
‘Hannah Arendt and the Devaluation of Life?’ Literature and Aesthetics 16:2, University of Sydney, Dec 2006, pp80-95.
‘ Habermas, Hegel and the Spirit of Critical Theory’ Critical Horizons 6, Brill, Netherlands, 2005, p89-101.
‘Exploring the Options in No-Man’s Land: Heller and Markus on the Antinomies of Modern Culture’ Thesis Eleven, No 75, 2003 pp25-38.
‘Heller’s Paradoxical Cultural Modernity’ The European Legacy, Sage 6:1, 2001 pp25-36.
'From the Agora to the Coffee House: Heller’s Quest for a Radical Philosophy’ Critical Horizons 2:2. Brill Netherlands, 2001, pp255-282.
‘Negotiating the Double Bind: Heller’s Theory of Modernity’ European Journal of Social Theory 3:4 , 2000: pp429-447.
‘A Utopian Dialectic of Needs? Heller’s Theory of Radical Needs’ Thesis Eleven No 59, Sage, London, 1999 pp.53-72 translated into Spanish as in Daimon: Revista de Filosofia No 17 July-December 1998, pp133-150.
‘Revolting Liberties: Revolution and Freedom in Arendt and Foucault’ The European Legacy, Volume 3, No 1, Sage, London,1998. pp.50-71.
'"Worldliness" in the Modern World: Heller and Arendt' Thesis Eleven, No 47, Nov 1996, Sage, London, pp.73-88.
‘Historical Exhaustion or Philosophical Closure: Fukuyama's Hegelianism’ History of European Ideas, Pergamon Press, Oxford Vol 21, No3, 1995 pp.379-392.
‘Stirk's Horkheimer’ History of European Ideas Vol 21, No 1, Pergamon Press, Oxford, April 95, pp.126-29.
‘Watching the Pendulum Swing–Agnes Heller's Modernity’ Thesis Eleven No 37, MIT, Boston, 1994 pp127-141.
‘Dissatisfied Society’ New German Critique 58, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1993 pp.153-178.
‘Two Views of the Paradigm of Production’ Praxis International 12:2, Blackwell, July 1992 pp.192-215.
‘Marx and the Philosophy of the Subject’ Thesis Eleven No 28, 1991, M I T, Boston, pp.52-69.
‘Weber’s Fragmentation of Totality’ Thesis Eleven No 21, 1988 Clayton, pp.20-40.
‘Adventures of the Concept of Totality Thesis Eleven No 15, 1986 Clayton, pp.111-120.