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Paul Patton
Areas of public interest: (examples of areas of public interest this person is qualified to comment on)
citizenship; colonialism; cosmopolitanism; democracy; equality; Freedom; French philosophy and philosophers; Justice; land rights; liberalism; Mabo; minority; rights of indigenous peoples; poststructuralism; postmodernism; power; rights; sovereignty
Contact Details:
Ph: (+61 2) 9385 2391
email: prp@unsw.edu.au
University of New South Wales
Sydney. NSW. 2052.
Title & Institutional Affiliations:
Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Selected Media appearances and public comments:
'Where philosophy gets done', The Philosopher's Zone, ABC Radio, 11 November 2006
'Deleuze and Democracy', The Philosophers's Zone, ABC Radio, 22 and 29 June 2005
Interview with Margaret Throsby on Derrida's life and philosophy, ABC Radio National, 14 October 2004
On Godard/Deleuze: Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), Film-Philosophy Journal, 2002
'The Descent of Man, ABC Radio National's Science Show, 2000
General Areas of Academic Expertise:
Contemporary Political Philosophy; History of European Philosophy, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche; 20th Century French Philosophy, especially Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault
Selected Publications:
‘Derrida, Politics and Democracy to Come,’ Philosophy Compass, Volume 2, Issue 6, November, 2007, pp. 766-780.
'Historic Injustice and the Possibility of Supersession', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26: 3, 2005, pp. 255-266.
'Deleuze and Democracy', Contemporary Political Theory, 4/4 2005.
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigeneous Peoples, co-edited with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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