Researcher

Emeritus Professor Rosalyn Diprose

Fields of Research (FoR)

Philosophy, Phenomenology, Social Philosophy

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Biography

 Rosalyn's published research applies concepts from the fields of 20thC European philosophy and existential phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Levinas, Derrida, Nancy, Foucault), Nietzsche’s philosophy, and feminist philosophy of the body, to develop ideas of political community, generosity, and responsibility, and to address ethical and political issues especially with regard to biopolitics, identity, and diversity.


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 Rosalyn's published research applies concepts from the fields of 20thC European philosophy and existential phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Levinas, Derrida, Nancy, Foucault), Nietzsche’s philosophy, and feminist philosophy of the body, to develop ideas of political community, generosity, and responsibility, and to address ethical and political issues especially with regard to biopolitics, identity, and diversity.


My Qualifications

B.App.Sc UTS, BA Hons Sydney, PhD UNSW


My Teaching

UNSW VC's Award for Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision 2009

Current PhD supervisions:
Rhonda Siu, “Music and existence”
Francesco Paradiso, "Deconstruction and Political Life"
Mindy Xu "Phenomenology and the Ethics of Euthanasia"

PhD Completions as primary supervisor (1998-2012):

  • Greg Leaney. Dec 2012. “Ecophenomenological intertwining and environmental virtue ethics”
  • Faye Brinsmead. 2010. “Nietzsche’s Conceptual Personae of Freedom”. 
  • Mark Kingston. 2009. “Building a theory of action from the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault”. 
  • •Michelle Bastian. 2009. “Communities out-of-joint: A consideration of the role of temporality rethinking community” (joint supervision with C. Mills). 2012+ Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh.
  • Peter Woelert. 2008. “Materialisations of Space: Phenomenological  Relations Between the Human Organism, Space, and Technology”. 
  • Anne Gearside. 2007. ‘Meaning, agency and embodied (gendered) subjectivity: simultaneity as a condition of Butler’s performativity and Merleau-Ponty’s intentionality’
  • Sara Sorial. 2006 ‘Heidegger and the problem of individuation: Mitsein, ethics and responsibility’ . ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship Macquarie U 2008-11; Continuing Level B Philosophy and Law, U Wollongong 2009+ 
  • Matheson Russell. 2005. “Phenomenon and Semblance: A Study of Heidegger's Phenomenological Method in Being and Time”. Author of Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum 2006); Lecturer in Philosophy U Auckland July 2007+
  • Sean Elbourne. 2005. “The Tragic Sublime: Libidinal Pessimism and the Problem of Existence”.
  • Kane Race. 2004. “Pleasure Consuming Medicine” (Joint supervision with S. Kippax NCHSR). FASS Dissertation Award 2004; 2007+ Senior Lecturer, Gender & Cultural Studies USyd; Author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine, Duke University Press, 2009.
  • Sarah Rice. 2003. “Standpoint, Viewpoint, Counterpoint: Nietzsche, Levinas, & the Ethics of Situated Knowledge” 
  • Sal Renshaw. 2002. "Other Love: Helene Cixous, Subjectivity and the Feminine Divine", . Lecturer, Philosophy, Nipissing University, Canada since 2001. Thesis published as The subject of love: Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine, Manchester U Press, 2009
  • Matthew Paull. 2002. “Nietzsche, Moral Scepticism and Eternal Return” 
  • Karen Williams. 2001. "Phenomenal Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Interaction, and Illness". 
  • Erika Kerruish. 2001. "Nietzsche and Interpretation". Currently, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Southern Cross University.
  • Amanda Fernbach. 2000. "Decadence and Technofetishism" (Joint supervision with B. Olubas). Awarded FASS 'Writing Fellowship' for the most publishable thesis in 2000; Published as Fantasies of Fetishism, Edinburgh UP in 2002
  • Thomas Martin. 1998. "Bad Faith and Oppression”. Currently Associate Prof. Philosophy and Head of Department, Rhodes U South Africa. Author of Oppression and the Human Condition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
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