Dr Charles Barbour
- Biography
- Qualifications
- Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
- Grants / Current Projects
- Selected Publications
- Contact Details
Biography
Dr Charles Barbour is a School-based Member of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy and a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney. Prior to coming to Australia, Dr Barbour was based the Department of Socialogy, University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests in include politics and aesthetics, with a particular interest in contemporary political theory. Along with a number of chapters in books, he has articles published or forthcoming in journals such as 'Law, Culture and Humanities', 'Educational Philosophy and Theory', and 'Philosophy and Social Criticism'. He has also co-edited, with George Pavlich, the collection 'After Sovereignty' (Routledge-Cavendish 2009).
Qualifications
PhD, University of British Columbia, 2004
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Social and Political Philosophy; Aesthetics and Politics; Marx and Post-Marxism; Politics, Witnessing and Lying; Post-secular Theory and Political Theology; Equality
Grants / Current Projects
Dr Barbour is currently working on a project which explores the reemergence of the concept of equality, or what is called ‘the axiom of equality’, in contemporary social and political theory through a series of scholarly interviews with prominent Australian and international intellectuals.
SSHRC-SRG (Canada): 'Giorgio Agamben's Political Ontologies'.
Selected Publications
Edited Books
After Sovereignty: Essays on the Question of Political Beginnings. Collection of essays co-edited with George Pavlich. Routledge-Cavendish. 2009.
Book Chapters
“Without Exception: Democracy and Sovereignty After Carl Schmitt.” In State, Security, and Subject Formation. Eds. Magdalena Zolkos and Anna Yeatman. Continuum. 2010.
“Echoes of the Ardent Voice.” In Lyric Ecology: The Work of Jan Zwicky. Eds. Mark Dickenson, Clare Goulet, Tim Quick. Cormorant Books. 2009.
“Introduction,” In After Sovereignty: Essays on the Question of Political Beginnings. Co-authored with George Pavlich. Routledge-Cavendish. 2009.
“Exception and Event: Schmitt, Arendt, and Badiou.” In After Sovereignty: Essays on the Question of Political Beginnings. Routledge-Cavendish. 2009.
Refereed Journals
“The Acts of Faith: Witnessing in Derrida and Arendt.” In Philosophy and Social Theory. Forthcoming in 2010.
“Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and The Ignorant Schoolmaster.” In Educational Philosophy and Theory. Forthcoming in 2010.
“Sovereign Times: Acts of Creation” In Law, Culture and Humanities. Spring 2010.
“Separated Unto the Gospel of God: Political Theology in Badiou and Agamben.” In Seattle Law School: Law Review. Winter 2009.
“Militancy: The Birth of Multitudes, the Politics of Truth.” In Theory, Culture, and Society. Winter 2007.
“Writing the Republic: Politics and Polemics in The German Ideology.” Co-authored with Thomas Kemple. Telos. Spring 2005.
“What Remains: Of Marx and Marxism.” Journal of Classical Sociology. Spring 2005.
