Professor Marguerite La Caze
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 |