I teach and research in political theory, the history of political thought, modern and contemporary French philosophy, and human rights. I grew up in Vancouver, Canada, studied in the United States (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center 2007), and now call Sydney home.

Teaching and supervision

I love teaching: lecturing, tutorial discussion, supervision, all of it.

First, I love the content. Honestly, what can compete with political theory? All we talk about are fundamental and controversial ideas, such as what freedom means, whether democracy is a good form of government, what are human rights and do they really exist, and how to live a good life in a world with others.

Second, I love to introduce students to the practice of close and careful reading. I tend to teach through “great books” – classics of political philosophy and the history of moral and political thought (such as Plato’s Republic, Montaigne’s Essays, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, and Rawls’s A Theory of Justice). My goal is to slow reading and thinking down, often dwelling on a single book or two over the course of a semester. This way, students learn a valuable skill for university life and beyond: charitable interpretation and the willingness to open themselves up to an often very different point of view.

I am proud to have received several teaching awards at The University of Sydney, as well as national and international teaching prizes and fellowships. Please see my CV for details.

At The University of Sydney, I teach the following courses: GOVT2112, Introduction to Political Theory; PHIL3613, The Philosophy of Human Rights; and PHIL3673, Philosophy as a Way of Life.

I am available for supervision of honours and post-graduate students in Government and International Relations, and Philosophy at The University of Sydney.

I love teaching: lecturing, tutorial discussion, supervision, all of it.

First, I love the content. Honestly, what can compete with political theory? All we talk about are fundamental and controversial ideas, such as what freedom means, whether democracy is a good form of government, what are human rights and do they really exist, and how to live a good life in a world with others.

Second, I love to introduce students to the practice of close and careful reading. I tend to teach through “great books” – classics of political philosophy and the history of moral and political thought (such as Plato’s Republic, Montaigne’s Essays, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, and Rawls’s A Theory of Justice). My goal is to slow reading and thinking down, often dwelling on a single book or two over the course of a semester. This way, students learn a valuable skill for university life and beyond: charitable interpretation and the willingness to open themselves up to an often very different point of view.

I am proud to have received several teaching awards at The University of Sydney, as well as national and international teaching prizes and fellowships.

At The University of Sydney, I teach the following courses: GOVT2112, Introduction to Political Theory; PHIL3613, The Philosophy of Human Rights; and PHIL3673, Philosophy as a Way of Life.

I am available for supervision of honours and post-graduate students in Government and International Relations, and Philosophy at The University of Sydney.

Current projects

My latest book, Liberalism as a Way of Life, is about how liberal values and practices can be the basis for a personal worldview, way of living, and spiritual orientation. You can read reviews of in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TheWashington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, and Vox.

I am a specialist in the philosophy of Henri Bergson, the major French philosopher of the early twentieth century. At present, with Nils F. Schott, I am editing three volumes of Bergson’s lecture courses at the Collège de France (Bloomsbury). The first volume,Freedom:Lectures at the Collège de France, 1904–1905, was published in 2024.

Awards and honours

Specially Appointed Researcher, Department of Law and Political Science, Osaka University, December 2024-January 2025

Faculty, The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June-July 2023

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, September 2021 - May 2022

Magnate Scholar, University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute, 2022

Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT), 2019

Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), 2019-

Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research 2017

Australasian Association of Philosophy Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize 2017

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award 2015

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Seeing as equals: can liberal egalitarianism account for the wrongness of disparities of regard	Leo ROGERS
Human Rights as Education: P. C. Chang's Experimentalism and Confucianism	Yanyun YANG

Selected publications

Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures on Freedom at the College de France, 1904-1905

(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)

Liberalism as a Way of Life

(Princeton University Press, 2024)

Los Derechos Humanos como Modo de vida. En torno a la filosofia politica de Bergson

(Biblos, 2022)

Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays

(Cambridge University Press, 2020)

The Subject of Human Rights

(Stanford University Press, 2020)

Human Rights and the Care of the Self

(Duke University Press, 2018)

Henri Bergson: Vladimir Jankelevitch

(Duke University Press, 2015)

Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy

(Stanford University Press, 2013)

Bergson, Politics, and Religion

(Duke University Press, 2012)

The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza [Korean translation]

(Chi Woo, 2012)

The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza

(Stanford University Press, 2008)

Publications

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Books

Lefebvre, A. (2024). Liberalism as a Way of Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Los Derechos Humanos como Modo de vida. En torno a la filosofia politica de Bergson. Buenos Aires: Biblos.
Lefebvre, A. (2018). Human Rights and the Care of the Self. Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2013). Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2012). The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza [Korean translation]. Seoul: Chi Woo.
Lefebvre, A. (2008). The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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Edited Books

Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2024). Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures on Freedom at the College de France, 1904-1905. London UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2020). Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Celermajer, D., Lefebvre, A. (2020). The Subject of Human Rights. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2015). Henri Bergson: Vladimir Jankelevitch. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2012). Bergson, Politics, and Religion. Durham: Duke University Press.

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Book Chapters

Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2024). Henri Bergson at the Collège de France. In Lefebvre, A., Schott (Eds.), Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures at the College de France, 1904-1905, (pp. ix-xiv). London UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2024). Henri Bergson, Freedomist. In Lefebvre, A., Schott (Eds.), Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures at the College de France, 1904-1905, (pp. 1-9). London UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Liberal Conceptions of the Self. In Duncan Ivison (Eds.), The Research Handbook on Liberalism, (pp. 31-45). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Cavell and Rawls: Modern Political Thought. In Paola Marrati (Eds.), Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism. London: Bloomsbury.
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2022). Closed and Open Societies. The Bergsonian Mind, (pp. 251-263). London: Routledge.
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Spiritual Exercises in Political Theory: John Rawls with Hent de Vries. In Martin Shuster and Tarek Dika (Eds.), Religion in Reason: Phenomenology, Dialectics, and Political Theology in Hent De Vries. London: Routledge.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2020). Bergson and Social Theory. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott (Eds.), Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays, (pp. 139-154). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2020). Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises. In Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (Eds.), The Subject of Human Rights, (pp. 193-210). Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2020). Introduction. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott (Eds.), Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays, (pp. 1-12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Celermajer, D., Lefebvre, A. (2020). Introduction: Bringing the Subject of Human Rights into Focus. In Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (Eds.), The Subject of Human Rights, (pp. 1-25). Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Moyn, S., Lefebvre, A. (2020). The Subject of Human Rights: an Interview with Samuel Moyn. In Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (Eds.), The Subject of Human Rights, (pp. 243-256). Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2019). Human Rights. In Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting and Alan Coffee (Eds.), The Wollstonecraftian Mind, (pp. 429-440). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2018). Bergson et les droits de l'homme: la conversion et le souci de soi. In Shin Abiko, Hisashi Fujita and Yasuhiko Sugimura (Eds.), Mechanique et mystique, (pp. 11-34). Zurich: Olms-Weidmann.
Lefebvre, A. (2015). Jankelevitch on Bergson: Living in Time. In Alex Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott (Eds.), Henri Bergson: Vladimir Jankelevitch, (pp. xi-xxviii). Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A. (2012). Bergson and Human Rights. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Melanie White (Eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, (pp. 193-214). Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A. (2012). Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson's Later Philosophy. In Laurent de Sutter and Kyle J. McGee (Eds.), Deleuze and Law, (pp. 48-68). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2012). Introduction: Bergson, Politics, and Religion. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Melanie White (Eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, (pp. 1-21). Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2012). Religion within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant. In Dale Spencer, Kevin Walby and Alan Hunt (Eds.), Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions, (pp. 102-123). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Lefebvre, A. (2009). The Time of Law: Evolution in Holmes and Bergson. In Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Patrick Hanafin (Eds.), Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures, (pp. 24-46). Baskingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Journals

Lefebvre, A. (2025). From Statecraft To Soulcraft. Noema.
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N., Shepherd, A. (2024). Freedom Regained: Henri Bergson at the College de France. The Philosopher, 101(78), 78-83.
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Review of On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, October(6342).
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Stanley Cavell, John Rawls and moral perfectionism in liberal democracy. European Journal of Political Theory. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Liberalism and the Good Life. Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 1(2), 152-168. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2022). The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls. Political Theory, 50(3), 405-427. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2017). Bergson, human rights and joy. Continental Philosophy Review, 50(2), 201-223. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2017). The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought. Genealogy, 1(2), 1-14. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Bergson et les droits de l'homme: la conversion and le souci de soi. Dissertatio: Revista de Filosofia, 42(4), 172-193.
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Human Rights and the Leap of Love. Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 24(2), 21-40. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Mary Wollstonecraft, Human Rights, and the Care of the Self. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 7(2), 179-200. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). The Rights of Man and the Care of the Self. Political Theory, 44(4), 518-540. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Una nueva imagen de la Ley: Deleuze y la jurisprudencia. Nuevo Itinerario, 11, 102-123.
Lefebvre, A. (2013). Alexandre Lefebvre interviews Paul Patton. Contemporary Political Theory, 12(3), 206-214. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2011). Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson's Later Philosophy. Theory and Event, 14(3), 1-10.
Lefebvre, A. (2011). Law and the Ordinary: Hart, Wittgenstein, Jurisprudence. Telos: a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, 154(Spring 2011), 99-118. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2010). Bergson on Durkheim: Society sui generis. Journal of Classical Sociology, 10(4), 457-477. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2010). Mary Wollstonecraft's civic perfectionism. Citizenship Studies, 14(4), 461-471. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2007). Critique of teleology in Kant and Dworkin: The law without organs (LwO). Philosophy and Social Criticism, 33(2), 179-201. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2006). Habermas and Deleuze on Law and Adjudication. Law and Critique, 17(3), 389-414. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2006). We Do Not Yet Know What the Law Can Do. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(1), 52-67. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2005). A New Image of Law: Deleuze and Jurisprudence. Telos: a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, 130, 103-126.
Isin, E., Lefebvre, A. (2005). The Gift of Law: Greek Euergetism and Ottoman Waqf. European Journal of Social Theory, 8(1), 5-23. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2005). The Political Given: Decisionism in Schmitt's Concept of the Political. Telos: a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, 132, 83-98.
Lefebvre, A. (2003). Things Temporal Expose, Passages from Benjamin. Journal for Cultural Research, 7(1), 47-60.

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Other

Lefebvre, A. (2024), Damon Linker interviews Alexandre Lefebvre on “liberalism as a way of life”, in Notes from the Middleground, May 2024.. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2024), Konservative verstehen Liberalismus als Angriff.
Lefebvre, A. (2021), "Review of The Belief in Intuition Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler by Adriana Alfaro Altamirano. Perspectives on Politics". [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2018), "Review of Eileen Hunt Botting's Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights." Hypatia Reviews Online: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2018), "Review of Helena Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century". Times Higher Education. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2017), Henri Bergson, in Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Lefebvre, A. (2010), Jurisprudence. In Mark Bevir (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Theory. (pp. 732-733). United States: Sage Publications..

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2025

Lefebvre, A. (2025). From Statecraft To Soulcraft. Noema.

2024

Lefebvre, A. (2024), Damon Linker interviews Alexandre Lefebvre on “liberalism as a way of life”, in Notes from the Middleground, May 2024.. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N., Shepherd, A. (2024). Freedom Regained: Henri Bergson at the College de France. The Philosopher, 101(78), 78-83.
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2024). Henri Bergson at the Collège de France. In Lefebvre, A., Schott (Eds.), Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures at the College de France, 1904-1905, (pp. ix-xiv). London UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2024). Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures on Freedom at the College de France, 1904-1905. London UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2024). Henri Bergson, Freedomist. In Lefebvre, A., Schott (Eds.), Henri Bergson on Freedom: Lectures at the College de France, 1904-1905, (pp. 1-9). London UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2024), Konservative verstehen Liberalismus als Angriff.
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Liberal Conceptions of the Self. In Duncan Ivison (Eds.), The Research Handbook on Liberalism, (pp. 31-45). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Liberalism as a Way of Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Review of On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, October(6342).
Lefebvre, A. (2024). Stanley Cavell, John Rawls and moral perfectionism in liberal democracy. European Journal of Political Theory. [More Information]

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2022

Lefebvre, A. (2022). Cavell and Rawls: Modern Political Thought. In Paola Marrati (Eds.), Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism. London: Bloomsbury.
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2022). Closed and Open Societies. The Bergsonian Mind, (pp. 251-263). London: Routledge.
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Liberalism and the Good Life. Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 1(2), 152-168. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Los Derechos Humanos como Modo de vida. En torno a la filosofia politica de Bergson. Buenos Aires: Biblos.
Lefebvre, A. (2022). Spiritual Exercises in Political Theory: John Rawls with Hent de Vries. In Martin Shuster and Tarek Dika (Eds.), Religion in Reason: Phenomenology, Dialectics, and Political Theology in Hent De Vries. London: Routledge.
Lefebvre, A. (2022). The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls. Political Theory, 50(3), 405-427. [More Information]

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2021

Lefebvre, A. (2021), "Review of The Belief in Intuition Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler by Adriana Alfaro Altamirano. Perspectives on Politics". [More Information]

2020

Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2020). Bergson and Social Theory. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott (Eds.), Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays, (pp. 139-154). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2020). Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises. In Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (Eds.), The Subject of Human Rights, (pp. 193-210). Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2020). Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2020). Introduction. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott (Eds.), Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays, (pp. 1-12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Celermajer, D., Lefebvre, A. (2020). Introduction: Bringing the Subject of Human Rights into Focus. In Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (Eds.), The Subject of Human Rights, (pp. 1-25). Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Celermajer, D., Lefebvre, A. (2020). The Subject of Human Rights. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]
Moyn, S., Lefebvre, A. (2020). The Subject of Human Rights: an Interview with Samuel Moyn. In Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (Eds.), The Subject of Human Rights, (pp. 243-256). Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]

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2019

Lefebvre, A. (2019). Human Rights. In Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting and Alan Coffee (Eds.), The Wollstonecraftian Mind, (pp. 429-440). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

2018

Lefebvre, A. (2018), "Review of Eileen Hunt Botting's Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights." Hypatia Reviews Online: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2018), "Review of Helena Rosenblatt's The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century". Times Higher Education. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2018). Bergson et les droits de l'homme: la conversion et le souci de soi. In Shin Abiko, Hisashi Fujita and Yasuhiko Sugimura (Eds.), Mechanique et mystique, (pp. 11-34). Zurich: Olms-Weidmann.
Lefebvre, A. (2018). Human Rights and the Care of the Self. Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]

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2017

Lefebvre, A. (2017). Bergson, human rights and joy. Continental Philosophy Review, 50(2), 201-223. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2017), Henri Bergson, in Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Lefebvre, A. (2017). The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought. Genealogy, 1(2), 1-14. [More Information]

2016

Lefebvre, A. (2016). Bergson et les droits de l'homme: la conversion and le souci de soi. Dissertatio: Revista de Filosofia, 42(4), 172-193.
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Human Rights and the Leap of Love. Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 24(2), 21-40. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Mary Wollstonecraft, Human Rights, and the Care of the Self. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 7(2), 179-200. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). The Rights of Man and the Care of the Self. Political Theory, 44(4), 518-540. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2016). Una nueva imagen de la Ley: Deleuze y la jurisprudencia. Nuevo Itinerario, 11, 102-123.

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2015

Lefebvre, A., Schott, N. (2015). Henri Bergson: Vladimir Jankelevitch. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A. (2015). Jankelevitch on Bergson: Living in Time. In Alex Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott (Eds.), Henri Bergson: Vladimir Jankelevitch, (pp. xi-xxviii). Durham: Duke University Press.

2013

Lefebvre, A. (2013). Alexandre Lefebvre interviews Paul Patton. Contemporary Political Theory, 12(3), 206-214. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2013). Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [More Information]

2012

Lefebvre, A. (2012). Bergson and Human Rights. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Melanie White (Eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, (pp. 193-214). Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2012). Bergson, Politics, and Religion. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A. (2012). Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson's Later Philosophy. In Laurent de Sutter and Kyle J. McGee (Eds.), Deleuze and Law, (pp. 48-68). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2012). Introduction: Bergson, Politics, and Religion. In Alexandre Lefebvre, Melanie White (Eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, (pp. 1-21). Durham: Duke University Press.
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2012). Religion within the Bounds of Emotion Alone: Bergson and Kant. In Dale Spencer, Kevin Walby and Alan Hunt (Eds.), Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions, (pp. 102-123). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Lefebvre, A. (2012). The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza [Korean translation]. Seoul: Chi Woo.

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2011

Lefebvre, A. (2011). Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson's Later Philosophy. Theory and Event, 14(3), 1-10.
Lefebvre, A. (2011). Law and the Ordinary: Hart, Wittgenstein, Jurisprudence. Telos: a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, 154(Spring 2011), 99-118. [More Information]

2010

Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2010). Bergson on Durkheim: Society sui generis. Journal of Classical Sociology, 10(4), 457-477. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2010), Jurisprudence. In Mark Bevir (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Theory. (pp. 732-733). United States: Sage Publications..
Lefebvre, A., White, M. (2010). Mary Wollstonecraft's civic perfectionism. Citizenship Studies, 14(4), 461-471. [More Information]

2009

Lefebvre, A. (2009). The Time of Law: Evolution in Holmes and Bergson. In Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Patrick Hanafin (Eds.), Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures, (pp. 24-46). Baskingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

2008

Lefebvre, A. (2008). The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2007

Lefebvre, A. (2007). Critique of teleology in Kant and Dworkin: The law without organs (LwO). Philosophy and Social Criticism, 33(2), 179-201. [More Information]

2006

Lefebvre, A. (2006). Habermas and Deleuze on Law and Adjudication. Law and Critique, 17(3), 389-414. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2006). We Do Not Yet Know What the Law Can Do. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(1), 52-67. [More Information]

2005

Lefebvre, A. (2005). A New Image of Law: Deleuze and Jurisprudence. Telos: a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, 130, 103-126.
Isin, E., Lefebvre, A. (2005). The Gift of Law: Greek Euergetism and Ottoman Waqf. European Journal of Social Theory, 8(1), 5-23. [More Information]
Lefebvre, A. (2005). The Political Given: Decisionism in Schmitt's Concept of the Political. Telos: a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, 132, 83-98.

2003

Lefebvre, A. (2003). Things Temporal Expose, Passages from Benjamin. Journal for Cultural Research, 7(1), 47-60.

Selected Grants

2023

Teaching and Research Fellow, Cornell University, USA, Lefebvre A, Cornell University (USA)/Program Grant

2020

Vital Politics: Rethinking Normativity in the Anthropocene, Tonder L, Bennett J, Honig B, Lefebvre A, Thomsen B, Independent Research Fund (DFF) of Denmark/Research Grant
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, September 2020 - May 2021, Lefebvre A, Princeton University (USA)/Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship
Research Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, Australia National University , Lefebvre A, Humanities Research Centre, Australia National University/Visiting Fellowship

2018

Liberalism and the Future of Democracy, Lefebvre A, Tonder L, Taylor A, Ejsing M, Berg-Sorensen A, Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards
Research Fellowship, WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Lefebvre A, WZB Berlin Social Science Research Center (Germany)/Visiting Fellowship

In the media

"Rawls the Redeemer," Aeon, 2024.

"Hey liberals, do you like this hegemony of ours? Then you’d better damn well act like it!”ABC Religion & Ethics, 2024.

“Suzanne Nossel Is Heartened by ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life’,The New York Times, 21 July 2024.

“Will liberalism live? And does it deserve to?,” by Becca Rothfeld,The Washington Post, 3 July 2024.

“Why liberalism needs fewer defenders, and more devotees”, ABC Radio National,The Philosopher’s Zone, 9 August 2024.

“Living Up to Liberal Commitments Means Confronting Capitalism,” by Matt McManus,Jacobin, 6 June 2024.

“You’re a liberal and you don’t even know it,” by Zack Beauchamp,Vox, 1 July 2024.

“In Search of Liberals of a More Liberal Persuasion,” by Peter Berkowitz,Real Clear Politics, July 28 2024.

“Swimming in Liberalism,” by Galen Watts,The Point, July 31, 2024.

“Marinating in liberalism,” by Peter Mares,Inside Story, 6 July 2024.

"Alexandre Lefebvre explains why Liberalism is a Way of Life", Keen On with Andrew Keen, 24 June 2024

'''Can Liberalism move the soul?" by Daniel A. Bell', Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, 21 June 2024

"Is Democracy in Crisis?", ABC Radio National, Drive with Andy Park, 21 June 2024

"Under attack the world over, what is liberalism?", Keeping Democracy Alive podcast with Burt Cohen, 4 June 2024

“Why is Step-Incest Porn So Insanely Popular Right Now?”, Daily Beast, 3 June 2024

"The Liberal Way", American Prestige podcast with Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison, 2 June 2024

“Liberalism is not neutral", Wisdom of Crowds podcast with Shadi Hamid and Christine Emba, 31 May 2024

“Why Liberals Struggle to Defend Liberalism” by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 May 2024

"The Authoritarians Have the Momentum" by David Brooks, The New York Times, 16 May 2024

“The decency of everyday life — are unwritten rules enough to sustain a good society?”, ABC Radio National, The Minefield with Scott Stephens and Waleed Aly, 9 May 2024

“Are we all liberals at heart?”, ABC Radio National, Big Ideas with Natasha Mitchell, 21 March 2024

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Professor Alexandre Lefebvre

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