Doctor Michael Symonds

Doctor Michael Symonds

Adjunct Appointment - School of Humanities and Com Arts,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts

SENIOR LECTURER,
Arts (SoHCA)

Biography

Michael Symonds has been teaching at UWS in the areas of philosophy and sociology since 1987. He has been the Principal Supervisor of completed PhDs on the following theorists and topics: Neo-Kantianism, Descartes, Spinoza, Weber, Adorno, and feminist political philosophy.

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Qualifications

  • PhD University of Sydney
  • BA University of Sydney

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
  • Arts (SoHCA)

Contact

Email: M.Symonds@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9772 6438
Mobile:
Location: 1.1.174
Bankstown

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Publications

Books

  • Symonds, M. (2020), 'The Appeal of Art in Modernity', : Routledge 9780815377689.
  • Symonds, M. (2015), 'Max Weber's Theory of Modernity: The Endless Pursuit of Meaning', : Ashgate 9781472462862.

Chapters in Books

  • Symonds, M. (2023), 'Weber's theory of meaning, modernity and the value-spheres', The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber, Routledge 97803672345062.

Journal Articles

  • Symonds, M. and Pudsey, J. (2008), 'The concept of 'Paradox' in the work of Max Weber', Sociology-the Journal of the British Sociological Association, vol 42, no 2 , pp 223 - 241.
  • Symonds, M. and Pudsey, J. (2007), 'Heroic Love : The Ethic of Brotherliness in Max Weber's 'Vocation' Lectures', Max Weber Studies, vol 7, no 1 , pp 59 - 83.
  • Symonds, M. and Pudsey, J. (2006), 'The Forms of Brotherly Love in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion', Sociological Theory, vol 24, no 2 , pp 133 - 149.
  • Symonds, M. (2002), 'Nature and Citizenship: John Locke and the Australian Experience of Polkical Space', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 16, no 1 , pp 95 - 109.

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