Career highlights
ARC Discovery grants:
- on modern recoveries of the idea of philosophy as a way of life
- on religion and politics
Book Camus, Philosophe reissued in paperback due to favorable critical reviews
Book Slavoj Zizek, A Little Piece of the Real reissued by Routledge, 2017
Book (with G. Boucher) The Times Will Suit Them shortlisted for 2018 John Button book award.
Over 750 citations as of December 2019.
Over 30 articles in Tier 1 journals across several disciplines.
Being plenary speaker at 2019 Stoicon event in Athens, the home of Stoicism
Meeting Juliusz Domanski and speaking at testimonial in Warsaw, June 2019, and liaising directly with Ilsetraut Hadot on the translation of Pierre Hadot's Selected Essays (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Research interests
A/P Sharpe has an eclectic array of research interests. Increasingly, he works on classical philosophy and modern receptions thereof, and the early modern period, up to and including the French enlightenment. He is interested in the history of Western receptions of its classical past, and the rich ethical legacy left by Stoic and academic schools in particular.
A/P Sharpe has expertise in Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, and the use of psychoanaytic theory to read comedies, tragedies, and more contemporary cultural forms like 'Reality television'. He has published one single-authored and one coauthored book on Slavoj Zizek's work, and with Joanne Faulkner, Understanding Psychoanalysis.
In the past, he has published on aesthetics, the theory of ideology, eschatology and political theology, and critical theory. He has written on a host of different thinkers: for instance John Macdowell, Jacques Lacan, Montaigne, Voltaire, Maimonides, Pierre Hadot, and Epictetus.
He is 2017-19 working on a project looking at the critical theory tradition's relationship with the enlightenment. He is also part of a group of researchers at Deakin looking at the return of the Far Right globally.
Affiliations
Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy
Teaching interests
lecturer in philosophy
history of ethics
political philosophy
philosophy as a way of life
humanism as an educational program and ideal
psychoanalysis and social theory
Units taught
ASP215: Philosophies of Happiness and the Good Life: Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, early modern and modern philosophers address virtue, passions, love, pleasure, fame, publicity, egoism and altruism, lying, and torture.
ASP224: Freud and Philosophy: Freud, Lacan, and their applications to social issues: feminism, gender, race, authoritarianism, narcissism and social media.
Honors units (since 2006): Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Bacon, the enlightenment, Hegel, intellectual vices (2019)
Knowledge areas
Modern receptions of classical Greek philosophy: Leo Strauss, Pierre Hadot, Albert Camus, as well as Nazi receptions of antiquity.
Hellenistic philosophy
Roman philosophy
Enilghtenment philosophy
Psychoanalysis
20th century European philosophy
Albert Camus
Professional activities
Dr Sharpe has spoken at several Melbourne and Geelong philosophy cafes, delivered many lecture series at the MSCP, and been involved in several community groups. He has previously been Honors coordinator in Philosophy, Discipline convenor of the Philosophy group, and Associate Head of School or Research, and is the Coconvenor of EPHI (European Philosophy and History of Ideas) at Deakin..
Media appearances
Matthew has appeared many times on community, local and national radio. These appearances include:
October 2019: on the philosopher's zone, talking about Freud and philosophy
October 2019: on Soul Search, on Stoicism as a way of life
August 2018: on Adelaide ABC, talking about fascism
April 2018: taking about Voltaire's meeting with Benjamin Franklin
2015: on Philosopher's Zone, Radio National, talking about the enlightenment
2013: on Philosopher's Zone, talking about Camus
2008: community and national radio in connection with book with Geoffrey Boucher, The Times will suit them
Research groups
Governance and Development, Alfred Deakin Institute
Awards
2019: Arts-Education Faculty Commendation, High Student satisfaction, ASP215 teaching.
2019: School of Humanities and Social Sciences commendation for high eVALUate (student satisfaction) results, ASP215 teaching.
2018: School of Humanities and Social Sciences commendation for high eVALUate (student satisfaction) results, ASP215 teaching.
2018: ARC Centre for Excellence in History of the Emotions project grant ($4000) on Francis Bacon, rhetoric, and the emotions.
2018: two Research Excellence ADI grants for publication in Tier One journals.
2011 Deakin Arts Faculty Research Award (B/C Level).
2010 Deakin Arts Faculty Research Award (B/C Level).
2014-2018: CI in ARC Discovery grant "Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life".
2013-2018: CI in ARC Discovery team "Religion and Political Thought"
2008, 2010: Faculty teaching commendations, high student satisfaction results.
Projects
On Pierre Hadot and the history of Western conceptions of nature and the good life
On the normativity and realities of the French enlightenment, beyond its polemical criticisms
On the nature of the Far Right, the reasons for its resurgence, and the role of philosophical and intellectual movements and figures in the same.
On critical theory and its relationship with the ideas of the enlightenment
Publications
Not Beyond Politics: The Metapolitical Dimensions of Nietzsche's Anti-Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil
Matthew Sharpe
(2023), pp. 149-180, Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction Essays on Liberalism, Socialism, and Aristocratic Radicalism, B1
Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life
Matthew Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 2, pp. 173-194, Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life : contemporary reflections and applications, Boston, Mass., B1
Matthew Sharpe
(2022), Vol. IV, pp. 107-112, Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume IV, B1
Pushing against an open door: Agamben on Hadot and Foucault
Matthew Sharpe, Matteo Stettler
(2022), Vol. 14, pp. 120-139, CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL, C1
M Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 11, pp. 173-212, Philosophy and Public Issues, Roman, Italy, C1
Matthew Sharpe, Matteo Stettler
(2022), Philosophy Today, Chicago, Ill., C1
Wittgenstein's Unglauben: Jacques Lacan and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
K Turner, M Sharpe
(2022), Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, C1
Unifying, Comparative, Critical and Metacritical: Domenico Losurdo's Nietzsche as Aristocratic Rebel
Matt Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 23, pp. 284-304, Critical Horizons, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Simplicius the Neoplatonist in Light of Contemporary Research. A Critical Review
Matthew Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 16, pp. 98-100, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1
Matthew Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 3, pp. 172-200, Continental thought & theory: A journal of intellectual freedom, Christchurch, N.Z., C1
Politics, Religion, Hope: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
M Sharpe, M King
(2022), pp. 1-2, Critical Research on Religion, London, Eng., C1
Giving the Angel the Benefit of Law: Natural Law and Human Dignity in Franz Neumann and Ernst Bloch
M Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 10, pp. 351-356, Critical Research on Religion, London, Eng., C1
PWL for the 21st Century Academic Philosopher
Matthew Sharpe
(2022), Vol. 6, AAPT Studies in Pedagogy, C1
Philosophy as a Way of Life; History, Dimensions, Directions
Matthew Sharpe, Michael Ure
(2021), London, Eng., A1
Purloined Letters-Lacan avec Strauss
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), pp. 29-51, Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought: Reading Strauss Outside the Lines, New York, N.Y., B1
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), pp. 33-39, Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume III, B1
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), pp. 182-202, Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetic Theory and Practice, Montreal, Canada, B1
Pierre Hadot, Albert Camus and the orphic view of nature
M Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 54, pp. 17-39, Continental Philosophy Review, C1
On Politics, Irony, and Plato's Socrates as Derrida's Pharmakon
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 83, pp. 1-21, Review of Politics, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Drafted into a Foreign War? On the Very Idea of Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 8, pp. 183-217, Rhizomata: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Berlin, Germany, C1
Golden Calf: Deleuze's Nietzsche in the time of Trump
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 163, pp. 71-88, Thesis eleven, London, Eng., C1
M Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 55, pp. 269-287, Journal of Value Inquiry, C1
M Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 163, pp. 5-28, Thesis Eleven, London, Eng., C1
A Good Person for a Crisis? On the Wisdom of the Stoic Sage (in Himself & for Us)
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 5, pp. 32-49, Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, C1
Solitaire/solidaire: Camus, contemplation, and the vita mixta
M Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 2021, pp. 31-43, Telos, C1
Speaking of Heidegger's Silence. Critical Responses to Knowles's Heidegger
Matthew Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 13, pp. 76-92, Heidegger-Jahrbuch, Freiburg, Germany, C1
"Bringin' Sexy Back" (and With it, Women): Shusterman Beyond Foucault on the Greeks
M Sharpe
(2021), Vol. 5, pp. 138-146, Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, C1
Camus as Philosopher amongst Philosophers
Maciej Kałuża, Peter Francev, Matthew Sharpe
(2020), Vol. 5, pp. 1-28, Brill's companion to Camus : Camus among the philosophers, Leiden, The Netherlands, B1
Modern Rebellion before the Terror: Reading Diderot after Camus
Matthew Sharpe
(2020), Vol. 5, pp. 91-112, Brill's companion to Camus : Camus among the philosophers, Leiden, Germany, B1
Pierre Hadot: Stoicism as a Way of Life
Matthew Sharpe
(2020), pp. 260-280, French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben, London, Eng., B1
In the crosshairs of the fourfold: critical thoughts on Aleksandr Dugin's Heidegger
Matthew Sharpe
(2020), Vol. 21, pp. 167-187, Critical horizons, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Thoughts on Philosophy and Evil
Matthew Sharpe
(2020), Vol. 12, pp. 65-100, Journal of Camus Studies, Jacksonville, Ill., C1
Camus as Philosopher amongst the Philosophers: Brill's Companion to Camus
Matthew Sharpe, Maciej Kaluza, Peter Francev
(2020), Leiden, The Netherlands, A7
Camus' 'midday thought', a precursor to speculative realism?
Matthew Sharpe
(2019), pp. 160-177, Why do things break?, Newcastle on Tyne, England, B1
Matthew Sharpe
(2019), pp. 163-174, Routledge handbook of the philosophy of evil, London, Eng., B1
Matthew Sharpe, Kirk Turner
(2019), pp. 187-198, Routledge handbook of psychoanalytical political theory, London, Eng., B1
Wherewith to draw us to the left and right: on reading Heidegger in the new millennium
Matthew Sharpe
(2019), pp. 77-110, Confronting Heidegger: a critical dialogue on politics and philosophy, London, Eng., B1
Žižek's Kant, or the Crack in the Universal (Politicizing the Transcendental Turn)
Matthew Sharpe
(2019), Vol. 1, pp. 33-55, Žižek Studies: The Greatest Hits (So Far), Bern, Switzerland, B1
Killing the father, Parmenides: On Lacan's anti-philosophy
M Sharpe
(2019), Vol. 52, pp. 51-74, Continental Philosophy Review, C1
Home to men's business and bosoms: philosophy and rhetoric in Francis Bacon's Essayes
M Sharpe
(2019), Vol. 27, pp. 492-512, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, C1
From Amy Allen to Abbé Raynal: Critical Theory, the Enlightenment and Colonialism
M Sharpe
(2019), Vol. 20, pp. 178-199, Critical Horizons, C1
M Sharpe
(2018), Vol. 456, pp. 139-164, Contro-parolo: Foucault e la parrēsia, Milano, Italy, B1
Ilsetraut Hadot's Seneca: spiritual direction and the transformation of the other
M Sharpe
(2018), pp. 104-123, Ethics and self-cultivation: historical and contemporary perspectives, New York, N.Y., B1
The demise of grand narratives? Postmodernism, power-knowledge, and applied epistemology
M Sharpe
(2018), pp. 318-331, The Routledge handbook of applied epistemology, New York, N.Y., B1
The being of the Volk: state, Führer and 'the political' in Heidegger's seminars during the Kairos
M Sharpe
(2018), pp. 199-217, Law and philosophical theory: critical intersections, London, Eng., B1
Camus and forgiveness, after the fall
M Sharpe
(2018), pp. 149-163, Phenomenology and Forgiveness, London, Eng., B1
TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SAGESSE: uncovering the unique philosophical problematic of pierre hadot
M Sharpe
(2018), Vol. 23, pp. 125-138, Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, C1
Rhetorical action in rektoratsrede: Calling heidegger's gefolgschaft
M Sharpe
(2018), Vol. 51, pp. 176-201, Philosophy and Rhetoric, C1
The topics transformed: Reframing the baconian prerogative instances
M Sharpe
(2018), Vol. 56, pp. 429-454, Journal of the History of Philosophy, C1
On Reading Heidegger-After the "Heidegger Case"?
M Sharpe
(2018), Vol. 19, pp. 334-360, Critical Horizons, C1
Bibliopolitics: the history of notation and the birth of the citational academic subject
Matthew Sharpe, Kirk Turner
(2018), Vol. 25, pp. 146-173, Foucault studies, Kelvin Grove, Qld., C1
Into the heart of darkness or: Alt-stoicism? Actually, no...
M Sharpe
(2018), Vol. 2, pp. 106-113, Eidos: a journal for philosophy of culture, Warsaw, Poland, C1
1750, casualty 1914: lest we forget (the preKantian enlightenment)
M Sharpe
(2017), Vol. 25, pp. 251-276, 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurations, Cham, Switzerland, B1
What of all the others? On recovering the Enlightenment
M Sharpe
(2017), pp. 61-87, Rethinking the Enlightenment: between history, philosophy and politics, Lanham, Md., B1
What's left in Zizek? The antinomies of Zizek's sociopolitical reason
M Sharpe
(2017), pp. 147-168, Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Zizek, London, Eng., B1
Fearless? Peter Weir, the sage, and the fragility of goodness
M Sharpe
(2017), Vol. 41, pp. 136-157, Philosophy and Literature, C1
Guests, Hosts, Strangers: Far From Men and Camus' Algerians
Matthew Sharpe
(2017), Vol. 21, pp. 326-348, FILM-PHILOSOPHY, C1
Camus and the virtues (with and beyond Sherman)
M Sharpe
(2017), Vol. 61, pp. 679-708, Philosophy today, Charlottesville, Va., C1
Socrates reborn? Philosophy, after the disciplines
M Sharpe
(2017), Vol. 47/48, pp. 305-323, Arena journal, Fitzroy, Vic., C1
100 Years of European Philosophy Since the Great War: Crisis and Reconfigurations
Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs, Jack Reynolds
(2017), Cham, Switzerland, A7
Lacanian psychoanalysis and critical theory
M Sharpe
(2016), pp. 560-588, Edinburgh companion to critical theory, Edinburgh, Scotland., B1
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 14, pp. 25-37, Philosophy as a literary art: making things up, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Comedy and the agency of the letter in a midsummer night's dream
M Sharpe
(2016), pp. 133-155, Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy, Cambridge, Eng., B1
Albert Camus' hellenic heart, between Saint Augustine and Hegel
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 9, pp. 242-268, Brill's companion to the reception of the classics in international modernism and the avant garde, Boston, Ma., B1
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 8, pp. 375-403, Classical Receptions Journal, C1
There is not just a war: recalling the therapeutic metaphor in western metaphilosophy
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 55, pp. 31-54, Sophia, Berlin, Germany, C1
The plague and the Panopticon: Camus, with and against the total critiques of modernity
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 133, pp. 59-79, Thesis eleven, London, Eng., C1
On Roland Boer's Marxism and theology
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 4, pp. 171-178, Critical Research on Religion, C1
Socratic ironies: reading Hadot, reading Kierkegaard
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 55, pp. 409-435, Sophia, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
M Sharpe
(2016), Vol. 2016, pp. 25-52, Pli: the Warwick journal of philosophy, Warwick ,Eng., C1
On a neglected argument in French philosophy: Sceptical humanism in Montaigne, Voltaire and Camus
M Sharpe
(2015), Vol. 16, pp. 1-26, Critical horizons, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1
M Sharpe
(2015), Vol. 15, pp. 106-117, Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, Parkville, Vic., C1
M Sharpe
(2015), Vol. 4, pp. 37-68, Journal of early modern studies, Firenze, Italy, C1
Introduction: secularization and its discontents
M Sharpe, D Nickelson
(2014), pp. 3-19, Secularisations and Their Debates, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, B1
In the beginning was ... the story? On secularisation, narrative, and nominalisms
M Sharpe
(2014), pp. 109-130, Secularisations and their debates, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, B1
A just judgement? Considerations on Ronald Srigley's Camus' Critique of Modernity
M Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 120, pp. 43-58, Thesis Eleven, London, UK, C1
The Black Side of the Sun: Camus, Theology, and the Problem of Evil
M Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 15, pp. 151-174, Political Theology, Leeds, UK, C1
Georgics of the mind and the architecture of fortune: Francis Bacon's therapeutic ethics
M Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 43, pp. 89-121, Philosophical Papers, London, Eng., C1
Between Genet's Bordello and holy communion : Lacan on comedy in seminar V
Matthew Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 6-7, pp. 61-72, Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian ideology critique, Maastricht, The Netherlands, C1-1
How it's not the Chryssippus you read : on Cooper, Hadot, Epictetus, and stoicism as a way of life
M Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 58, pp. 367-392, Philosophy today, Chicago, IL, C1
Publicising the Essentially Private: On Leo Strauss' Platonic Aristophanes
Matthew Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 18, pp. 3-32, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Canada, C1
M Sharpe
(2014), Vol. 2014, pp. 117-144, Journal of Camus Studies, C1
Name it and claim it: prosperity gospel and the global pentecostal reformation
M Sharpe
(2013), pp. 164-179, Handbook of research on development and religion, Cheltenham, England, B1
Camus' Askesis: reading Camus in light of the Carnets (and his L'Impromptu des philosophes)
M Sharpe
(2013), Vol. 8, pp. 1149-1164, Philosophical practice, London, Eng., C1
Controlling the philosophical imaginary: reading Pierre Hadot with Luiz Costa Lima
M Sharpe
(2013), Vol. 54, pp. 225-240, Culture, theory & critique, London, Eng., C1
On eschatology and the 'return to religion'
M Sharpe
(2013), pp. 203-228, Arena journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1
The poetic presentation of philosophy:Leo Strauss on Plato's "symposium"
M Sharpe
(2013), Vol. 34, pp. 563-603, Poetics today, Durham, North Carolina, C1
'More things in heaven and earth ...': The theological aufhebung of Roland Boer
M Sharpe
(2013), pp. 28-58, Arena journal, Fitzroy, Vic., C1-1
Revaluing megalopsuchia : reflections on the Alcibiades II
M Sharpe
(2012), pp. 134-146, Alcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator, London, U. K., B1
Sharing the moment : on the Olympic Games as spectacle
M Sharpe
(2012), pp. 273-286, The Olympics and philosophy, Lexington, Mass., B1
'To be or not ...' Lacan and the meaning of being in Shakepeare's Hamlet
M Sharpe
(2012), pp. 89-116, The literary Lacan : from literature to lituraterre and beyond, Calcutta, India, B1
Philosophy and the view from above in Alejandro's Amenabar's agora
M Sharpe
(2012), Vol. 6, pp. 31-45, Crossroads : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, St Lucia, Qld., C1
Changing Aristotle's mind and world : critical notes on McDowell's Aristotle
M Sharpe
(2012), Vol. 2, pp. 804-821, Philosophy study, Libertyville, Ill., C1
Restoring Camus as Philosophe: On Ronald Srigley's Camus' Critique of Modernity
M Sharpe
(2012), Vol. 13, pp. 400-424, Critical horizons, Durham, England, C1
In the name of the father : understanding monotheism and fundamentalism
R Grigg, M Sharpe
(2011), pp. 81-87, The Antipodean philosopher ; volume 1 : public lectures on philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Lanham, Md., B1
M Sharpe, D Townsend
(2011), pp. 131-148, Interpreting Nietzsche : reception and influence, New York, N.Y., B1
Reading Camus with, or after, Levinas : rebellion and the primacy of ethics
M Sharpe
(2011), Vol. 55, pp. 82-95, Philosophy today, Chicago, Ill., C1
M Sharpe
(2011), Vol. 50, pp. 413-427, Sophia, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
G Boucher, M Sharpe
(2011), Vol. 72, pp. 64-79, New formations : a journal of culture / theory / politics, London, England, C1
M Sharpe
(2011), pp. 1-14, Internet encyclopedia of philosophy, [unknown], C1
The invincible summer : on Albert Camus' philosophical neoclassicism
M Sharpe
(2011), Vol. 50, pp. 577-592, Sophia, Dordrecht, Netherlands, C1
'Only the present is our happiness' : on affects in ancient thought, in memorium Pierre Hadot
M Sharpe
(2011), pp. 144-156, Parrhesia : a journal of critical philosophy, Parkville, Vic., C1
M Sharpe
(2011), Vol. 50, pp. 141-158, Sophia, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1-1
On getting real : Stoicism and psychoanalysis
M Sharpe
(2011), pp. 201-204, Anthology of philosophical studies; Volume 6, Athens, Greece, E1-1
On Plato as origin and periagoge in Strauss and Arendt
M Sharpe
(2010), pp. 119-141, Legacy of Leo Strauss, Exeter, England, B1
M Sharpe
(2010), pp. 243-258, From Agamben to Žižek : contemporary critical theorists, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
When the logics of the world collapse - Žižek with and against Arendt on 'totalitarianism'
M Sharpe
(2010), Vol. 3, pp. 53-75, Subjectivity : International journal of critical psychology, London, England, C1
Who stole the cheese? or : How postmodernism can grow your business
M Sharpe
(2010), Vol. 89, pp. 525-541, Man in India, New Delhi, India, C1
Zizek's communism and in defence of lost causes
M Sharpe, G Boucher
(2010), Vol. 4, pp. 1-7, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, England, C1
Then we will fight them in the shadows! : seven parataxic views, on Zizek's style
M Sharpe
(2010), Vol. 4, pp. 1-35, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, England, C1
Uncovering Euthyphro's treasure reading Plato's Euthyphro with Lacan
M Sharpe
(2010), Vol. 37, pp. 23-48, Helios, Lubbock, Texas, C1-1
"Critchley is Žižek" : in defence of critical political philosophy
M Sharpe
(2009), Vol. 10, pp. 180-196, Critical horizons, Sheffield, U. K., C1
Of diabolical evil, and related matters : on Slavoj Žižek's reading of Kant's practical philosophy
M Sharpe
(2009), Vol. 3, pp. 1-23, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, England, C1
M Sharpe
(2009), Vol. 14, pp. 535-547, European legacy, toward new paradigms, Oxford, England, C1
Is neoliberalism a Liberalism, or a strange kind of bird? On Hayek and our discontents
M Sharpe
(2009), Vol. 10, pp. 76-98, Critical horizons, Stocksfield, England, C1
Only Agamben can save us? Against the messianic turn recently adopted in critical theory
M Sharpe
(2009), Vol. 5, Bible and critical theory, Melbourne, Vic., C1
The times will suit them : postmodern conservatism in Australia
G Boucher, M Sharpe
(2008), Crows Nest, N. S. W., A1
Resurrecting (meta-) political theology, or the abstract passion of Alain Badiou
M Sharpe
(2008), Vol. No.29/30, pp. 273-304, Arena journal, Australia, C1
Kant, or the crack in the universal : Slavoj Zizek's politicising the transcendental turn
M Sharpe
(2008), Vol. 2, pp. 1-20, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, United Kingdom, C1
In the name of the Father : God in Lacan, Judaic or Christian?
M Sharpe
(2008), Vol. 26, pp. 267-285, Psychoanalytische perspectieven, Ghent, Belgium, C1-1
Postmodern conservatism and reactionary recognition
A Vandenberg, M Sharpe, G Boucher
(2007), pp. 116-134, Recognition in politics: theory, policy and practice, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, B1
Supposing history were a woman, what then? Some timely meditations on tyranny
M Sharpe
(2007), pp. 186-209, Trauma, History, Philosophy, Newcastle, England, B1
Neuropsychoanalysis and the future of psychoanalysis
M Sharpe
(2007), pp. 313-323, Trauma, history, philosophy, Newcastle, England, B1
Maistre avec de Sade: Zizek contra de maistre
M Sharpe
(2007), Vol. 1, pp. 1-24, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, England, C1
A question of two truths? Remarks on Parrhesia and the 'political-philosophical' difference
M Sharpe
(2007), pp. 89-108, Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, Parkville, Vic, C1
Che Vuoi? Politico-philosophical remarks on Leo Strauss' Spinoza
M Sharpe
(2007), Vol. 3, pp. 1-14, Bible and critical theory, Melbourne, Vic, C1
Even better than the real thing: sadism and real(ity) t.v.
M Sharpe
(2007), Vol. 4, pp. 1-9, Scan : journal of media arts culture, Sydney, N.S.W, C1
M Sharpe
(2006), Vol. 24, pp. 95-123, Australian feminist law journal, Parkville, Vic, C1
The aesthetics of ideology, or 'the critique of ideological judgment' in Eagleton and Zizek
M Sharpe
(2006), Vol. 34, pp. 95-120, Political theory : an international journal of political philosophy, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1
A coincidentia oppositorium? On Carl Schmitt and new Australian conservatism
M Sharpe
(2006), Vol. 5, pp. 1-14, Borderlands, Adelaide, S. Aust., C1
The philosopher's courtly love? Leo Strauss, Eros, and the law
M Sharpe
(2006), Vol. 17, pp. 357-388, Law critique, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
M Sharpe
(2006), Vol. 27, pp. 123-158, Arena journal, North Carlton, Vic, C1
Of words : on sartre and the unconscious - in good faith
M Sharpe
(2006), pp. 1-20, Journal of european psychoanalysis, Rome, Italy, C1-1
'In the name of the Father...' descartes, psychosis, God and 'reality'
M Sharpe
(2006), Vol. 4, pp. 214-232, Journal for Lacanian studies, London, England, C1-1
What's left in Zizek? The antinomies of Zizek's sociopolitical reason
M Sharpe
(2005), pp. 147-168, Traversing the fantasy: critical responses to Slavoj Zizek, Aldershot, England, B1
Aesthet(h)ics: on Levinas' shadow
M Sharpe
(2005), Vol. 9, pp. 29-47, Colloquy text theory critique, Melbourne, Vic, C1
Is there a minority report?, or: what is subjectivity?
M Sharpe
(2005), Vol. 2, pp. 4-14, Other voices, Philadelphia, PA, C1
Critique as technology of the self
M Sharpe
(2005), pp. 97-116, Foucault studies, Kelvin Grove, Qld, C1
A few good men: psychoanalysis, Abu ghraib and (the) American right
M Sharpe
(2005), Vol. 10, pp. 168-185, Psychoanalysis, culture & society, Basingstoke, England, C1
Irony and finitude: Zizek, Kundera and modernity
M Sharpe
(2004), Vol. 14, pp. 9-24, Antithesis, Parkville, Vic, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life - Monash University
Dr Michael Ure, Prof Keith Ansell-Pearson, A/Prof Matthew Sharpe
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2016: $9,600
- 2015: $4,814
- 2014: $4,814
Supervisions
Benjamin Walters
Thesis entitled: Free Speech in the Modern World
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Erin Donnarumma
Thesis entitled: Radical New Self: Modern Ideology in the Age of Individualism
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kirk Turner
Thesis entitled: Development of the Lacanian Concept of Fantasy: Uncertainty and Signification
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kevin Murphy
Thesis entitled: Asexuality: Towards a Freudian-Lacanian Understanding
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Vincent Le
Thesis entitled: Being and Evil: Philosophy in the Shadow of Augustine
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Adrienne Margarian
Thesis entitled: A Cross Cultural Study of Somatic Countertransference
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Daniel Jeffrey Edward Townsend
Thesis entitled: Leo Strauss and Islam
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Christopher Pollard
Thesis entitled: Merleau-Ponty, Naturalism and Phenomenological Ontology
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Russell Manning
Thesis entitled: Is this Revolution being Televised? Televisual Screens and Adolescent Subjectivity
Master of Arts, School of International and Political Studies
Timothy Deane-Freeman
Thesis entitled: The Digital Outside - Deleuzian film philosophy and contemporary screen cultures
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Mitchell David Cunningham
Thesis entitled: Performing the 'Fiction-Writer's Reader': David Foster Wallace and Critical Rhetoric
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Salvatore Guido
Thesis entitled: After Freud: The Fateful History of Psychoanalysis in Exile
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Andrew Sims
Thesis entitled: Anosognosia and the very idea of psychodynamic neuroscience
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tim Themi
Thesis entitled: Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Helen Isobel Besemeres
Thesis entitled: Radical Epistemological Skepticism about Justified Belief
Master of Arts, School of International and Political Studies
Una Murphy
Thesis entitled: Bhakti, Sankirtana and Gaudiya Vaisnavism: India to Australia Foucaultian Analysis
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Henry Meghaizel
Thesis entitled: Aristotle on Wisdom: Knowledge of Wisdom and How to Acquire It
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Patricia Gherovici
Thesis entitled: From Hysteria to Transgenderism: A Psychoanalytic Reconsideration of Sexual Difference
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Peter Robert Hotchin
Thesis entitled: Harmony in and between Aesthetic Experiences and Moral Experience
Master of Arts, School of International and Political Studies
Henk John van Leeuwen
Thesis entitled: Becoming at Home in the Natural World
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Lindsay Reginald Dawson
Thesis entitled: Philosophy, Business and Ethics: Balancing the Rational with the Thymotic
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Jon Kenneth Newton
Thesis entitled: Postmodernism, Christianity and the Book of Revelation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts