Professor Marguerite La Caze
Professor in Philosophy, Director Indigenous Engagement
+61 7 336 53443
Room 312, Level 3, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Researcher biography
Professor Marguerite La Caze’s research interests include: European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film.
Professor La Caze holds a BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); and PhD (UQ), and is an Australian Research Fellow 2003-2007. She held an ARC Discovery Grant 2015-2018 on ‘Ethical Restoration After Oppressive Violence: A Philosophical Account’ and was a visiting Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2022.
Her current research projects include:
- film philosophy and non-violent resistance
- Ontologies of force: Violence, non-violence, and resistance
- Hannah Arendt and power
- Beauvoir and cinema
Marguerite has successfully supervised 26 PhD and Master’s students on a wide range of topics and is currently supervising students on projects including analogy and philosophical reasoning, authenticity and politics, on the work of Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir on political judgment, on the emotion of shame, and on non-violence and resistance in Australian and Indian texts.
Featured Books
Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought
Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze eds. (2022). Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought. Lanham, MD United States: Lexington .
Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics
Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli eds. (2021). Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Contemporary perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: on what cannot be touched
Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos eds. (2019). Contemporary perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: on what cannot be touched. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
Marguerite La Caze ed. (2018). Phenomenology and forgiveness. London, Unite Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield International.
Wonder and generosity: their role in ethics and politics
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).
Integrity and the fragile self
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.
| 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 |
Publications
Books
La Caze, Marguerite (2024). Film and Everyday Resistance. Evanston, IL United States: Northwestern University Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.18108254
La Caze, Marguerite (2019). Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books. doi: 10.5771/9781498526708
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 (2024). Unexpected shapes of courage. Psychosocial and cultural perspectives on the war in Ukraine. (pp. 251-260) edited by Bohdan Shumylovych and Magdalena Zolkos. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003449096-14
La Caze, Marguerite (2024). Marjorie Glicksman Grene and existentialism's important truths. Reading Continental philosophy and the history of thought. (pp. 25-39) edited by Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
Caze, Marguerite La (2023). The ‘Continental’ tradition. The Kantian mind. (pp. 499-512) edited by Sorin Baiasu and Mark Timmons. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003406617-57
La Caze, Marguerite (2023). Young, Iris Marion: Political Philosophy. Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. (pp. 3667-3671) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6519-1_48
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Jacques Derrida on death, the death penalty, and mourning. Political theory on death and dying. (pp. 447-457) edited by Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale and Bruce Peabody. 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. 1-12) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781474474481-003
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 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). 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 (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 (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. 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). 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 (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 (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.
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 (2014). Promising and forgiveness. Hannah Arendt: key concepts. (pp. 209-221) edited by Patrick Hayden. 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). 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 (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 (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, 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, 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 (2006). Spitting the Difference: Between Young and Fraser on indentity politics'. Feminist Alliances. (pp. 151-163) edited by L Burns. New York: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401201728_012
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). Analytic Imaginary. Michèle Le Doeuff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice. (pp. 61-80) edited by Max Deutscher. Humanities Books: Amherst.
La Caze, M. (2000). Sublimation, Love, and Creativity. The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. (pp. 261-276) edited by Michael Levine. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
La Caze, Marguerite and Zolkos, Magdalena (2025). The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life. Film-Philosophy, 29 (1), 72-93. doi: 10.3366/film.2025.0293
Caze, Marguerite La (2024). What is Philosophy?. Philosophy, Politics and Critique, 1 (1), 70-73. doi: 10.3366/ppc.2024.0018
La Caze, Marguerite (2023). Note from the Book Review Editor Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 34 (2), 357-358. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03402001
Caze, Marguerite La (2023). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 34 (1), 141-142. doi: 10.1163/25897616-bja10085
La Caze, Marguerite (2023). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 33 (2), 335-336. doi: 10.1163/25897616-bja001
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 32 (2), 345-346. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03202001
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Hospitality: the guest replies. Social Research, 89 (1), 95-114. doi: 10.1353/sor.2022.0006
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Grace de Laguna as continental philosopher?. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6 (1), 59-67. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2022.2233187
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 33 (1), 165-166. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03301001
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Review of Manu Samnotra, Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xii, 135.). The Review of Politics, 84 (1), 158-160. doi: 10.1017/S0034670521000851
La Caze, Marguerite (2022). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 32 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03201001
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Becoming a victim: A dry white season. Philosophy Today, 65 (4), 899-916. doi: 10.5840/philtoday202184425
Caze, Marguerite La and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). INTRODUCTION. Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics, 1-11.
La Caze, Marguerite (2021). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 31 (2), 337-338. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03102002
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 (2020). Note from the Book Review Editor/ Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 31 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03101004
La Caze, Marguerite (2020). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 30 (2), 367-368. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03002007
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 (2019). Note from the Book Review Editor / Note de la responsable des recensions. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 30 (1), 177-179. doi: 10.1163/25897616-03001006
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). At first blush: the politics of guilt and shame. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 18, 85-99.
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 (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). 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 (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 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). Michèle Le Dœuff, Feminist Epistemology, and the Unthought. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 34 (2), 62-79.
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 (2007). Burdened virtues: Virtue ethics for liberatory struggles. Mind, 116 (463), 781-785. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzm781
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, 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, M. M. (2006). The asymmetry between apology and forgiveness. Contemporary Political Theory, 5 (1), 447-468. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300259
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). 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. M. (2003). The violence of the spectacle: Alejandro AmenTesis. Kinoeye: Film in the New Europe, 3 (5)
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, M. M. (2002). Revaluing envy and resentment. Philosophical Explorations, 5 (2), 155-158. doi: 10.1080/10002002058538729
La Caze, Marguerite M. (2002). The Encounter between wonder and generosity. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 17 (3), 1-19.
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 (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, 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, M. (1994). Simone de Beauvoir and Female Bodies. Australian Feminist Studies (20), 91-105.
Conference Paper
La Caze, Marguerite M. and Christensen, Birgit (2002). Beauvoir and the Two Ends of Life. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Zurich, Switzerland, 11-14 October 2000. Zurich, Switzerland: Chronos.
Thesis
La Caze, Marguerite (1996). The analytic imaginary. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and 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.