Associate Professor John Grumley
Room S431, Main Quad A14
Ph +612 9351 2465
Fax +612 9351 3918
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, 2004, 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
‘Turning Contingency Into Destiny: On Heller’s Existential Ethics’ in Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion (Ed) Katie Tezsakis, Lexington Books, New York, Forthcoming 2008 (6,000 words)
‘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, pp43-62
‘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
Dialogue with the Dead: Sebald on Creaturely Life’
submitted to New German Critique (6,600 words) Dec 2007
‘Politics in Dark Times: Arendt and Agamben on Sovereignty and the Camps’ submitted to Constellations New York (8,500 words, Nov 2007)
‘Existential Ethics and Bare Life’ European Legacy 13:5 forthcoming Aug 2008 (6,000 words)
‘New Adventures in the Dialectic of Humanism: Todorov, Sebald and Agamben’ Critical Horizons (9, 500 words, forthcoming 2008)
‘Agnes Heller and the Question of Humanism’ European Journal of Political Philosophy Vol 6, No 2 Sage, London 2007, pp 125-140
‘Hannah Arendt and the Devaluation of Life?’ Literature and Aesthetics No 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, pp126-29
‘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 pp153-178
‘Two Views of the Paradigm of Production’ Praxis International 12:2, Blackwell, July 1992 pp192-215
‘Marx and the Philosophy of the Subject’ Thesis Eleven No 28, 1991, M I T, Boston, pp52-69
‘Weber’s Fragmentation of Totality’ Thesis Eleven No 21, 1988 Clayton, pp20-40
‘Adventures of the Concept of Totality Thesis Eleven No 15, 1986 Clayton, pp111-120