Overview
We have teaching staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy. They have an interest in interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
Our lecturers have broad philosophical interests and specialise in modern European thought.
Research and supervision areas
We have teaching staff with strong research profiles in modern European philosophy. They are interested in interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
Research supervision is available in the following areas:
- Vico
- post-Kantian thought (including Hegel and German idealism)
- Kierkegaard
- Nietzsche
- phenomenology
- Hermeneutics
- psychoanalysis
- Bataille
- Frankfurt School
- the Situationists
- Poststructuralism (including Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida)
- posthumanism
- postmodernism (including Vattimo)
- philosophy and the arts
- philosophy of music
- philosophy and contemporary art
- philosophy and literature (particularly Blanchot)
- theoretical
- applied
- social
- Social and political philosophy
- Philosophy and religion
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