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: onwork.edu.au

as well as a newsletter: https://onwork.substack.com/

My areas of research specialisation are: 

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: 

Xiaoya Liu, PhD: Why should we support a UBI?

Lawrence Bradford, PhD: The Theory of Progress in Contemporary Critical Theory

Adam McRae, PhD: Meaningful relationships.

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:

Adam McRae, MRes, 2025. Subjectivity, recognition, neoliberal norms.

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.