By Associate Professor James Andrew Phillips

Journal articles

Phillips J, 2026, 'Heidegger’s Technology Essay and the Uncanniness of Τέχνη', Human Studies, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-026-09835-3

Phillips J, 2025, 'Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’', Textual Practice, 39, pp. 998 - 1015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2347247

Phillips J, 2024, 'On Arendt’s Reading of Kant’s Third Critique: What Politics Can (and Cannot) Learn from Aesthetics', Arendt Studies, 8, pp. 195 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies202312456

Phillips J, 2024, 'A fallible narrator and an inscrutable object: desire as structure in Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband', Studies in East European Thought, 77, pp. 921 - 933, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11212-024-09642-5

Phillips J, 2022, 'Kant, the Canon, and Pleasure's Transcendental Sociability', College Literature, 49, pp. 682 - 710, https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/867193

Phillips J, 2022, 'The Troubling Relationship between Pleasure and Universality in Kant’s Impure Aesthetic Judgements', Kant Studien: philosophische Zeitschrift der Kant-Gesellschaft, 113, pp. 219 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kant-2022-2011

Phillips J, 2021, 'Finitude and the Precritical Imagination: Heidegger's Confrontation with Idealism in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and its Bearing on his Philosophy of Art', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 59, pp. 606 - 628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12428

Phillips J, 2020, 'Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer: The Stakes of Shame and the Prospects of Politeness', ELH: English Literary History, 87, pp. 999 - 1023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2020.0035

Phillips J, 2020, 'The Rules and Politics of Storyworlds: Fictionalizing the Everyday in E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia Novels', Philosophy and Literature, 44, pp. 52 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2020.0003

Phillips J, 2020, 'Beauty is a Fact under Siege: John Ruskin as Critic in a State of Ecological Emergency', Journal of Victorian Culture, 25, pp. 63 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz043

Phillips J, 2018, 'Jacques Tati and the Unbound Gag: Notes for a Cinematic Phenomenology of Judgement', Film International, 16, pp. 54 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fiin.16.2.54_1

Phillips JA, 2018, 'The Eternal Return of the Same and the Missed Opportunity of Heidegger’s Nietzsche: Sacrificing the Perspectivism of Moods to the History of Being', Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 22, pp. 141 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/symposium20182219

Phillips JA, 2017, 'Straddling the Senses of a Contested Term: A Comment on the Use of ‘Aesthetic’ in Mohan Matthen's ‘The Pleasure of Art’', Australasian Philosophical Review, 1, pp. 90 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2017.1296388

Phillips J, 2017, 'The Cuckoo’s Egg in Honneth’s Hegel-Inspired Theory of Recognition: The Hobbesian Myth of Autonomy Revisited', Critical Horizons, 18, pp. 19 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2017.1275167

Phillips J, 2016, 'For the unruly subject the covenant, for the Christian sovereign the grace of God: The different arguments of Hobbes' Leviathan', Philosophy & Social Criticism, 42, pp. 1082 - 1104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453715607590

Phillips JA; McMahon J; Burns Coleman E; Macarthur D; von Sturmer D, 2016, 'Between philosophy and art: A collaboration at The Lock-Up, Newcastle', Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 5, pp. 135 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.5.2-3.135_1

Phillips JA, 2016, 'Anti-Oedipus: The Ethics of Performance and Misrecognition in Matsumoto Toshio’s Funeral Parade of Roses', SubStance, 45, pp. 33 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/ss.45.3.33

Phillips JA, 2015, 'Arendt and Deleuze on Totalitarianism and the Revolutionary Event: Among the Peoples of the Fall of the Berlin Wall', Deleuze Studies, 9, pp. 112 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2015.0176

Phillips J, 2015, 'Hegel and Heidegger on the Essence of Beauty: Plotting a Trajectory from Kant's Third Critique', Philosophy Today, 59, pp. 23 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday201411649

Phillips JA, 2014, 'Instead of a Preface: Dostoevsky and Philosophising', The Dostoevsky Journal: an independent review, 14, pp. i - vii

Phillips JA, 2014, 'Sovereignty's Ontological Indecision: Derrida and Heidegger on the Other Line (Between the Human and the Animals)', SubStance, 43, pp. 68 - 82, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/v043/43.2.phillips.html

Phillips J, 2014, 'Agamben's Limbos: Robert Walser and the Refugee', Textual Practice, 28, pp. 289 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2013.835748

Phillips JA, 2013, 'Between the Tyranny of Opinion and the Despotism of Rational Truth: Arendt on Facts and Acting in Concert', New German Critique, 40, pp. 97 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2077717

Phillips JA, 2013, 'Jean-Luc Nancy's Fraternal First Philosophy of the "With": Rethinking Communion', Theory and Event, 16, https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v016/16.2.phillips.html

Phillips JA, 2013, 'Mimesis and Justice: The Realism of Vidas Sêcas', Culture Theory and Critique, 54, pp. 183 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2013.782677

Phillips JA, 2012, 'Eric Rohmer's Die Marquise von O..., or Marriage Under Ambiguous Circumstances', Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, 104, pp. 232 - 243

Phillips JA, 2012, 'The Case for a Convergence of the Beautiful and the Sublime: Kant. Aesthetic Form and the Temptations of Appearance', The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 43, pp. 161 - 177

Phillips JA, 2012, 'The Fates of Flesh: Cinematic Realism Following Bazin and Mizoguchi', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 17, pp. 9 - 22

Phillips JA, 2012, 'The Practicalities of the Absolute: Justice and Kingship in Shakespeare's Richard II', ELH - English Literary History, 79, pp. 161 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2012.0002

Phillips JA, 2011, 'Placing Ugliness in Kant's Third Critique: A Reply to Paul Guyer', Kant - Studien, 102, pp. 385 - 395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kant.2011.027

Phillips JA, 2010, 'Restoring Place to Aesthetic Experience: Heidegger's Critique of Rilke', Critical Horizons: Journal of Social and Critical Theory, 11, pp. 341 - 358, http://philpapers.org/rec/PHIRPT

Phillips JA, 2010, 'Wordsworth and the Fraternity of Joy', New Literary History, 41, pp. 613 - 632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2010.0021

Phillips JA, 2008, 'In the Company of Predators: Beowulf and the Monstrous Descendants of Cain', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 13, pp. 41 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09697250802550921

Phillips JA, 2008, 'Marriage in Jane Eyre: From Contract to Conversation', Bronte Studies, 13, pp. 203 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174582208X338559

Phillips JA, 2007, 'The Two Faces of Love in Wuthering Heights', Bronte Studies, 32, pp. 96 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/147489307X182844

Phillips JA, 2006, 'Life in Space: William Burroughs and the Limits of the Society of Control', Literature and Aesthetics, 16, pp. 95 - 112

Phillips JA, 2005, 'Dying is not Death: The Difference between Blanchot`s Fiction and Hegel`s Concept', Colloquy, 10, pp. 57 - 68, http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/others/colloquy/issue10/phillips.pdf

Phillips JA, 2004, 'Beckett's Boredom and the Spirit of Adorno', Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd`Hui, 14, pp. 251 - 260, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25781470

Phillips JA, 2004, 'From Radical to Banal Evil: Hannah Arendt against the Justification of the Unjustifiable', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12, pp. 129 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672550410001679828

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