Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze
Associate Professor in Philosophy, Director of Teaching and Learning
+61 7 336 53443
Room E312, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze's research interests include: European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, and aesthetics.
Associate Professor La Caze holds a BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); and PhD (UQ), and is an Australian Research Fellow 2003-2007.
Her current research projects include:
- ethical restoration
- the politics of shame and guilt
- political trust and sincerity in Kant and Amery
- Beauvoir on hate and revenge
| Featured projects | Duration |
|---|---|
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Ethical restoration after oppressive violence: a philosophical account ARC Discovery Project |
2015–2018 |
| Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-Violence and Resistance (Studies of Indian and Australian historical contexts through philosophy, film, literature.) | 2020–2024 |
Books
La Caze, Marguerite (2018). Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
La Caze, Marguerite (2013). Wonder and generosity: their role in ethics and politics. New York, NY, United States: State University of New York Press (SUNY).
Cox, D. F., La Caze, M. M. and Levine, M (2003). Integrity and the fragile self. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315192161
La Caze, Marguerite (2002). The analytic imaginary. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press.
Book Chapters
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). The look of silence and the ethics of atonement. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 104-123) edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and Mourning. Political Theory on Death and Dying. (pp. 447-457) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003005384-45
La Caze, Marguerite and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Introduction. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 1-11) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Chile 1988: trauma and resistance in Pablo Larraín’s No (2012). Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. 285-307) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_14
La caze, Marguerite (2020). Hopeless love: Camus and Le Premier Homme. Brill's companion to Camus: Camus among the philosophers. (pp. 435-451) edited by Matthew Sharpe, Maciej Kałuża and Peter Francev. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004419247_022
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). Judging in times of crisis: wonder, admiration, and emulation. The moral psychology of admiration. (pp. 129-148) edited by Alfred Archer and André Grahle. London, United Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield International.
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). Young, Iris Marion: political philosophy. In Encyclopedia of the philosophy of law and social philosophy (pp. 1-5) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_48-1
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). Emotional Enlightenment: Kant on love and the beautiful. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Philosophy, and Politics. (pp. 199-219) edited by Geoff Boucher. Lanham MD, United States: Lexington Books.
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). Pretending peace: provisional political trust and sincerity in Kant and Améry. Sincerity in politics and international relations. (pp. 156-172) edited by Sorin Baiasu and Sylvie Loriaux. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203762257-11
La Caze, Marguerite (2015). The time of possible and impossible reciprocity: love and hate in Simone de Beauvoir. Thinking about love: essays in contemporary continental philosophy. (pp. 186-200) edited by Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno. University Park, United States: Pennsylvania State University Press.
La Caze, Marguerite (2014). Promising and forgiveness. Hannah Arendt: key concepts. (pp. 209-221) edited by Patrick Hayden. Durham, United Kingdom: Acumen Publishing.
Cox, Damian, La Caze, Marguerite and Levine, Michael (2014). Integrity. The Handbook of Virtue Ethics. (pp. 200-209) edited by Stan van Hooft, Nafsika Athanassoulis, Jason Kawall, Justin Oakley, Nicole Saunders and Liezl Van Zyl. Durham, United Kingdom: Acumen Publishing.
La Caze, Marguerite (2013). Hope and affirmation: an ethics of reciprocity. Jean-Paul Sartre: key concepts. (pp. 206-212) edited by Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds. Durham, United Kingdom: Acumen Publishing.
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). Existentialism, Feminism and sexuality. The Continuum companion to existentialism. (pp. 155-174) edited by Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward. London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). The miraculous power of forgiveness and the promise. Action and appearance: Ethics and the politics of writing in Hannah Arendt. (pp. 150-165) edited by Anna Yeatman, Phillip Hansen, Magdalena Zolkos and Charles Barbour. London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). A taste for fashion. Fashion : Philosophy for everyone : Thinking with style. (pp. 199-214) edited by Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett. Malden, MA, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444345568.ch13
La Caze, Marguerite (2010). Feminist philosophy. A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 184-188) edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.
La Caze, Marguerite (2010). The Judgment of the Statesperson. Power, judgment and political evil : In conversation with Hannah Arendt. (pp. 71-87) edited by Andrew Schaap, Danielle Celermajer and Vrasidas Karalis. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. doi: 10.4324/9781315601854
La Caze, M M (2006). Spitting the Difference: Between Young and Fraser on indentity politics'. Feminist Alliances. (pp. 151-163) edited by L Burns. New York: Rodopi.
La Caze, M M (2006). Should Radical Evil be Forgiven?. Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of evil. (pp. 273-293) edited by T Mason. Totowa: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-006-5_14
La Caze, M. M. (2004). If You Say So: Feminist Philosophy and Antiracism. Racism in Mind. (pp. 261-298) edited by M. P. Levine and T. Pataki. New York: Cornell University.
La Caze, M. (2000). Sublimation, Love, and Creativity. The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. (pp. 261-276) edited by Michael Levine. London: Routledge.
La Caze, M. (2000). Analytic Imaginary. Michèle Le Doeuff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice. (pp. 61-80) edited by Max Deutscher. Humanities Books: Amherst.
Journal Articles
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Hospitality: the guest replies. Social Research, 89 (1), 95-114. doi: 10.1353/sor.2022.0006
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Becoming a victim: A dry white season. Philosophy Today, 65 (4), 899-916. doi: 10.5840/philtoday202184425
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Realism as resistance the case of wadjda (2013). Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 25 (5), 156-170. doi: 10.1080/969725X.2020.1807148
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). 'I've Never Met A Me': identity and philosophy in D'Ailleurs, Derrida. Derrida Today, 12 (2), 152-170. doi: 10.3366/drt.2019.0207
La Caze, Marguerite (2018). Teaching and learning guide for Iris Marion's Young's legacy for feminist theory. Philosophy Compass, 13 (6), e12500. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12500
La Caze, Marguerite (2017). It’s easier to lie if you believe it yourself: Derrida, Arendt, and the modern lie. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 13 (2), 193-210. doi: 10.1177/1743872113485032
La Caze, Marguerite (2016). The language of violence: chiastic encounters. Sophia, 55 (1), 115-127. doi: 10.1007/s11841-016-0519-z
La Caze, Marguerite (2015). Hannah Arendt and self-forgiveness: in search of a magic spell. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 24, 38-63.
La Caze, Marguerite (2014). Iris Marion Young's legacy for feminist theory. Philosophy Compass, 9 (7), 431-440. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12142
La Caze, Marguerite (2013). The mute foundation of aesthetic experience?. Culture, Theory and Critique, 54 (2), 209-224. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2013.782678
La Caze, Marguerite (2013). At first blush: the politics of guilt and shame. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 18, 85-99.
La Caze, Marguerite (2012). Moss, fungus, cauliflower: Sartre's critique of "human nature". Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 16 (1), 30-51.
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). Dancing with Iris: the philosophy of Iris Marion Young. Social Theory and Practice, 37 (4), 697-704. doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract201137439
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). Terrorism and trauma: Negotiating Derridean 'autoimmunity'. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 37 (5), 605-620. doi: 10.1177/0191453711399253
La Caze, Marguerite and Lloyd, Henry Martyn (2011). Editors' introduction: Philosophy and affective turn. Parrhesia, 13, 1-13.
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, etc. 2nd Ed. By MICHÈLE LE DŒUFF. Translated by TRISTA SELOUS. Hypatia, 24 (1), 191-195. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.00013_4.x
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Derrida: opposing death penalties. Derrida Today, 2 (2), 186-199.
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Max Deutscher's genre of philosophy. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, IV (I), 71-78.
La Caze, Marguerite (2009). Close encounter: Max Deutscher on genre, the subject and judgement. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, 4 (1), 43-44.
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2008). Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Self-respect. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 23 (3), 118-135.
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2008). Review of Rauna Kuokkanen, 'Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift'. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 37, 181-183.
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2008). Michèle Le Dœuff, Feminist Epistemology, and the Unthought. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 34 (2), 62-79.
La Caze, Marguerite (2007). Burdened virtues: Virtue ethics for liberatory struggles. Mind, 116 (463), 781-785. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzm781
La Caze, Marguerite (2007). Sartre integrating ethics and politics: The case of terrorism. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy (3), 43-54.
La Caze, M. (2007). On orientation in thought: Hannah Arendt and Michele Le Doeuff. International Studies in Philosophy, 39 (4), 77-102. doi: 10.5840/intstudphil200739433
La Caze, Marguerite (2007). At the intersection: Kant, Derrida and the relation between ethics and politics. Political Theory, 35 (6), 781-805. doi: 10.1177/0090591707307324
La Caze, M. M. (2006). The asymmetry between apology and forgiveness. Contemporary Political Theory, 5 (1), 447-468.
La Caze, Marguerite (2005). Love, that indispensable supplement: Irigaray and Kant on love and respect. Hypatia, 20 (3), 92-114. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00488.x
La Caze, M. M. (2005). Freedom and the scandal of death. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 21 (1), 142-154.
La Caze, M. M. (2004). Not just visitors: Cosmopolitanism, hospitality, and refugees. Philosophy Today, 48 (3), 313-324. doi: 10.5840/philtoday200448331
La Caze, M. M. (2003). The violence of the spectacle: Alejandro AmenTesis. Kinoeye: Film in the New Europe, 3 (5)
La Caze, M. M. (2003). Review of How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: Stories and essays by Sylvia Lawson. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 17 (2), 223-224.
La Caze, M. (2003). Michele Le Doeuff and the work of philosophy. Australian Journal of French Studies, 40 (3), 244-256. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.40.3.244
La Caze, M. M. (2002). The mourning of loss in The Sixth Sense. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 21 (3), 111-121.
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2002). The Encounter between wonder and generosity. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 17 (3), 1-19.
La Caze, M. M. (2002). Revaluing envy and resentment. Philosophical Explorations, 5 (2), 155-158. doi: 10.1080/10002002058538729
La Caze, Marguerite (2001). Envy and Resentment. Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action, 4 (1), 31-45. doi: 10.1080/13869790108523341
Cox, Damian, Levine, M. P. and La Caze, M. (1999). Should We Strive for Integrity?. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 33 (4), 519-530. doi: 10.1023/A:1004614232579
La Caze, Marguerite M. (1999). Review of Margaret Simon's 'Simone de Beauvoir and the second sex: Feminism, race and the origins of Existentialism', New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 14 (4), 175-182.
La Caze, Marguerite (1999). Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. By Margaret A. Simons. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. (Review). Hypatia, 14 (4), 175-182. doi: 10.1353/hyp.2005.0025
La Caze, M. (1994). Simone de Beauvoir and Female Bodies. Australian Feminist Studies (20), 91-105.
Thesis
La Caze, Marguerite (1996). The analytic imaginary. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2014.544
Reference Entries
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). Simone de Beauvoir.
La Caze, Marguerite (2011). The look.
Cox, Damian, Levine, Michael and La Caze, Marguerite (2001). Integrity.