James Andrew Phillips is an associate professor of
philosophy
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at the
University of New South Wales
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. He is known for his research on
philosophy of art
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, the
philosophy of film
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History
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and performance, and
Martin Heidegger
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's thought.
A review of "Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry"
by Hans Sluga
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Life
After receiving his MA in Comparative Literature
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and Critical Theory
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from Monash University
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, he studied as a Ph.D. student in philosophy in both Austria and Germany and finished his doctorate under Jeff Malpas
Jeff Malpas is an Australian philosopher and emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Known internationally for his work across the analytic and continental traditions, Malpas is also at the forefront of contem ...
at the University of Tasmania
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. Phillips has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh
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) and National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center (NHC) is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States. The NHC operates as a privately incorporated nonprofit and is not part of any uni ...
in North Carolina.
Bibliography
* Phillips JA, 2025, ''Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical'', Bloomsbury
* Phillips JA, and JR Severn, (eds.), 2021, ''Barrie Kosky's Transnational Theatres'', Springer.
* Phillips JA, 2019, ''Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle'', Oxford University Press
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* Phillips JA, (ed.), 2008, ''Cinematic Thinking'', Stanford University Press
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, Stanford
* Phillips JA, 2007, ''The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist reading Kant'', Stanford University Press
* Phillips JA, 2005, ''Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry'', Stanford University Press
* Phillips JA, 2009, 'Beckett's Boredom', in ''Essays on Boredom and Modernity'', edn. 1, Rodopi, Amsterdam
See also
*Martin Heidegger and Nazism
Philosopher Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) on May 1, 1933, ten days after being elected Rector of the University of Freiburg. A year later, in April 1934, he resigned the Rectorship and stopped ...
References
External links
James Phillips
at PhilPapers
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James Phillips
at the University of New South Wales
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The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...
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21st-century Australian philosophers
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Living people
Australian political philosophers
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Heidegger scholars
Australian philosophers of art
University of Tasmania alumni
Monash University alumni
Film theorists
Critical theorists
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