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Biography
I was educated in Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École Normale Supérieure and Paris IV-Sorbonne), and Germany (Hegel-Archiv at the Ruhr Universität Bochum and Freie-Universität in Berlin). I received my PhD from Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1998 and began working in the Philosophy Department at Macquarie in 2002.
I am an editor of Critical Horizons, a journal of philosophy and social theory.
I also edit this online repository on work: onworkd.edu.au
as well as a newsletter: https://onwork.substack.com/
Research interests
My areas of research specialisation are:
- Social and political theory, especially work, recognition and equality.
- German philosophy, especially Hegel and the Hegelian tradition
- Critical Theory, especially the work of Axel Honneth
- Phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty
- Continental aesthetics
My current research projects focus on:
- The case for and against work
- Paradoxes of equality
- The iconography of political concepts
Research student supervision
I am available to supervise post-graduate projects in a number of areas of contemporary social and political philosophy, notably on work and recognition, as well as in areas of contemporary French and German philosophy, notably post-Hegelian thought and phenomenology.
Current supervisions:
Lawrence Bradford, PhD: The Theory of Progress in Contemporary Critical Theory
Adam McRae, MRes: Subjectivity, Social Norms and Recognition.
Fraser Gray, PhD: Environmental Politics.
Daren McDonald, PhD: Workers' Capital as Radical Reform.
Tim Stroh, PhD: Job Guarantee and Workers Cooperatives.
Andrew White, PhD: Byung-Chul Han and Critical Theory.
Completions:
Cian Pearce, MRes, 2024. Housing Injustice.
Daniel Badenhorst, MPhil, 2024. Hegel in Stuttgart.
John Goris, PhD, 2024. Animal labour and alienation under capitalism.
Fraser Gray, MRes, 2023. Rancière and Latour on environmental politics.
Cenk Atli, PhD, 2023. Physis, logos, history: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the history of rationality.
Andrew White, MRes, 2022. Byung-Chul Han and burn-out.
Anastasia Chan, MRes, 2022. Work, life and self-cultivation: Thoreau's Walden as a philosophy of work.
Livia Cocetta, PhD, 2022. “Social Revolution is the daughter of Aesthetic Revolution”. The monumental dimensions in Jacques Rancière’s political and aesthetic thinking.
Tim Stroh, MRes, 2022. An introduction to the reserve economy.
Jesse Lambourn, MRes, 2021. Freedom's embodiment: Helmut Plessner and the natural foundations of critical theory.
Thomas Corbin, PhD, 2021. 'A levelling fancy': Civic equality in the thought of Thomas Hobbes.
Georgia Rutherford (with R. Menary), MRes, 2020. Connecting the extending mind hypothesis and Hegelian philosophy.
Darlene Demandante, PhD, 2019. The political subject and its experience: an alternative reading of Rancière on political subjectivity.
Yves Saint-James Aquino (with Prof Wendy Rogers), PhD, 2019. Pathologising ugliness: An ethical critique of the conflation of health and beauty in cosmetic surgery
Alex Jackson, MRes, 2019. Generalism. A philosophical analysis.
Cenk Atli, MRes, 2017. Archeology of logos: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the historicity of rationality
William Hebblewhite, PhD, 2017. The emancipation paradox: a critical study of the Kantian tradition in political philosophy.
Tracy Llanera (with N. Smith), PhD, 2015. Richard Rorty: Rethinking redemption in modernity.
Karl Moll (with N. Smith), PhD, 2015. Work, anthropology and human human determination in the thought of Schiller, Marx, and Marcuse.
Nathan Everson, MRes, 2015. A Merleau-Pontian approach to animal ethics.
Livia Cocetta, MRes, 2014. Flights, intervals and conversions: the aesthetic politics of Jacques Rancière.
Toshiro Osawa, PhD, 2014. Perfection and morality: A commentary on Baumgarten's Ethica Philosophica and its relevance to Kantian ethics.
Bona Anna, PhD, 2014. Honneth and everyday intercultural (mis)recognition.
David Wild (with N. Smith), PhD, 2013. Recognising Capital and the limits of theory.
Andrew Dunstall, PhD, 2012. Jacques Derrida and the philosophy of history.
Jeffry Ocay, PhD, 2012. Critical theory at the margins: applying Marcuse's model of critical social theory to the Philippines.
Dale Tweedie (with N. Smith), PhD, 2011. Theories of work and contemporary workplace organisations.
Jerry Larson, PhD, 2011. Albert Camus' philosophy and the ethics of tragic freedom.
Andrew Montin, MPhil, 2011. Norms, language and self-regulating practices: On Brandom and the debate over the normativity of meaning.
Ruth Cox (with N. Smith), PhD, 2010. Applying the ethics of recognition.
Berndt Sellheim (with R. Sinnerbrink), PhD, 2008. Linguistic negativity in Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Andres Vaccari (with J. Sutton), PhD, 2006. Machine metaphysics: Descartes, the mechanisation of life, and the dawn of the posthuman.
Dale Tweedie, MA (Hons), 2005. Economics in social policy. A philosophical analysis.
External positions
Member, Advisory Board, "Future of Work" programme, Oxford Intersections, Oxford University Press
2025 → …
Member, advisory board, AI & Society
Nov 2024 → …
Editorial Board Member, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
1 Feb 2024 → …
Membre du Conseil Scientifique, Groupe d’études sur le travail et la santé au travail
2022 → …
Editorial board member, revue Travailler
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Mackenzie, C., Kennett, J., Rogers, W., Menary, R., Meyerson, D., Atkin, A., Bernal-Pulido, C., Deranty, J., Downey, G., Formosa, P., Heersmink, R., Hochman, A., Hutchison, K., Johnson, J., Klein, C., Levy, N., Lotz, M., MacDermott, T., Olson, M., Rossmanith, K., Schier, E., Sinnerbrink, R., Smith, N., Stotz, K., Sutton, J. & White, K.
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Project: Research
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Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre
Mackenzie, C., Rogers, W., Meyerson, D., Kennett, J., Menary, R., Barrow, A., Bernal-Pulido, C., Deranty, J., Downey, G., Faulkner, J., Formosa, P., Hochman, A., Hutchison, K., Johnson, J., Levy, N., Lipworth, W., Lotz, M., Pugliese, J., Ross, R., Rossmanith, K., Schier, E., Sinnerbrink, R., Smith, N., Sorial, S., Sutton, J., Voyce, M., Gleeson, K. & MacDermott, T.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Research Outputs
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Critical theory and social power
Deranty, J-P., 2025, (In preparation) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Work. Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Existentialist aesthetics
Deranty, J-P., 2025, (In preparation) In: Oxford Bibliographies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reconnaissance épistémique et reconnaissance normative chez Feuerbach
Deranty, J-P., 2025, (Accepted/In press) La Reconnaissance dans la pensée sociale et politique du 19ème siècle. ENS ÉditionsTranslated title of the contribution :Epistemic and normative recognition in Feuerbach Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Artificial intelligence and work: a critical review of recent research from the social sciences
Deranty, J-P. & Corbin, T., Apr 2024, In: AI & Society. 39, 2, p. 675-691 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Debating a post-work future: perspectives from philosophy and the social sciences
Celentano, D. (ed.), Cholbi, M. (ed.), Deranty, J-P. (ed.) & Schaff, K. P. (ed.), 2024, New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 302 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review
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AI & Society (External organisation)
Jean-Philippe Deranty (Chair)
Nov 2024Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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AI & Society (External organisation)
Jean-Philippe Deranty (Chair)
Nov 2024Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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Organization (Journal)
Jean-Philippe Deranty (Reviewer), Carl Rhodes (Guest editor) & Ruth Yeoman (Guest editor)
Sept 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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Organization (Journal)
Jean-Philippe Deranty (Guest editor), Carl Rhodes (Guest editor) & Ruth Yeoman (Guest editor)
7 Sept 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Publication Peer-review
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Exposing Our Members’ New ARC-funded Projects and the Value of Cross-Disciplinary Research Knowledge Creation and Exchange
Jean-Philippe Deranty (Speaker), Fei Guo (Speaker), Lucy Taksa (Speaker) & Kathryn Millard (Speaker)
28 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
Press/Media
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Why are we still expected to like bullshit jobs?
5/03/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Should we aim for a world without work?
13/12/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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A post-work future may not be all it's made out to be
15/10/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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A defence of human work in the age of AI
Jean-Philippe Deranty, Franz Strich, Julia Macken & David Kirchhoffer
13/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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How will we construct our identity when machines do our work for us?
18/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment