What follows is a full list of the courses presented by the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy since its inception as a teaching institution in 2003.
Winter School 2017
Hannah Arendt's contemplative turn and The Life of the Mind
Dr Lenka Ucnik
A Russian Nietzsche and a Russian Dostoevsky
Dr Valery Vinogradovs
Heidegger, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Dr Mark Hewson
Introduction to the Continental Philosophy of Music
Dr Rhonda Siu
Marie José Mondzain: Image, Icon, Economy: the Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary
Robyn Adler
Deleuze and Guattari's Political Philosophy
Dr Jon Roffe
Evening School Semester 1 2017
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: on the (im)possible dream of freedom
Dr Lachlan Ross
Reading Martin Heidegger's Being and Time Hermeneutics
Dr Mammad Aidani
Spinoza and Politics
Jon Rubin (with Assoc Prof Janice Richardson)
Summer School 2017
Ecstasis, memory, otherness - Phenomenologies of Time
Dr Marilyn Stendera
Modern Poetry: a philosophical introduction
Dr Mark Hewson
Strange Educations: Loyola, Rousseau, de Sade & Fourier
Dr AJ Bartlett
Shame: A Philosophical Exploration
Sergio Mariscal
Themes from Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics
Emily Hughes
Philosophies of Self-Formation: Technologies of Self for the 21st Century
Matthew Dennis
Potentialities and Virtualities: Meillassoux on Mathematics, Literature, and Justice
Christian R. Gelder
Phenomenology and the Visual Arts
Dr Graham Jones
Evening School Sem 2 2016
Anti-Platonism
Dr Adam Bartlett
Nietzsche as Educator
Dr David Rathbone
Problems and Concepts. Deleuze and ressentiment.
Jon Rubin
Winter School 2016
Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation
Dr Mark Hewson
An Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics
Dr Mammad Aidani
Modern Aesthetics: The fate of the beautiful and the autonomy of art
Sergio Mariscal
After Foucault: Power, Politics and Resistance
James Muldoon
The Later Sartre
Dr Robert Boncardo
Bernard Stiegler: from Technics and Time to The Automatic Society
Amélie Berger Soraruff
György Lukács: aesthetics, politics, philosophy
Dr Daniel Fairfax
Lyotard, Discourse, figure: desire, art and politics
Dr Graham Jones
Evening School Sem 1 2016
Towards a New Dialectical Materialism: Politics and Dialectics in the Early Work of Alain Badiou
Dr Robert Boncardo & Bryan Cooke
Nietzsche's Philosophy: An Opera in Five Acts / A Course in Twelve Weeks
Dr David Rathbone
John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)
Dr Marion Campbell & Dr Justin Clemens
The Rhetorical Tradition: An Introduction
Dr Matthew Sharpe
Summer School 2016
Ethics, riots and the real: Badiou's 'politics'
Dr Adam Bartlett
Selves and others: Phenomenological, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives
Dr Anya Daly
The relational Forms of the Everyday I: Strangers and Friends
Sergio Mariscal
Cinema's Naturalisms
Mairead Phillips
Hölderlin – Poetry and Modernity
Dr Mark Hewson
Post-secular Nietzsche
Dr John Mandalios
Catherine Malabou: Philosopher of Mutable, Resistant and Explosive Form
Bryan Cooke
Thinking with Sex
Dr Peter Banki
Art, Wisdom, Madness: "lost in the shadows of man"
Jon Rubin
The Philosopher of Consciousness Meets the Antiphilosopher of the Unconscious: Sartre and Lacan
Dr Robert Boncardo
Evening School Semester 2 2015
Alain Badiou's Big Books Part 3: Logics of Worlds
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Art / Philosophy
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Winter School 2015
Sartre: There Are Only Singular Absolutes
Dr Robert Boncardo
Kant's Metaphysics
Sherah Bloor
Althusser's Legacy
Daniel Fairfax
Spinoza and Spinozisms
Jon Rubin
Sound and Vision: The Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard
Lauren Bliss
Kant's Philosophy of Education
Valerijs Vinogradovs
Education: Plato's Body of Truth
Dr Adam Bartlett
Evening School Semester 1 2015
Alain Badiou's Big Books Part 2: Being and Event
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Philosopher, Statesman, Orator
Dr Matthew Sharpe
Alain Badiou's Interlocutors (Part 2)
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Summer School 2015
Unpacking Walter Benjamin's Library
Heather Contant
Georges Bataille: Economics and Eroticism
Dr Mark Hewson
Badiou and the Materialism of the Idea
Steven Corcoran
A Guess at the Riddle – An Introduction to the Philosophy of C.S.Peirce
Dr Maurita Harney
The Later Derrida
Dr Peter Banki
Mathematics and the Infinite: An Introduction
Arran Stewart
Appropriation and Authority in Maurice Blanchot
Dr Emily Finlay
St. Paul
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Philosophies of the Everyday: from Aesthetic Emancipations to Ethical Life
Sergio Mariscal
The Concepts of Activity Theory
Andy Blunden
Evening School Semester 2 2014
The Works of Gilles Deleuze (Deleuze Seminar VII Part 2)
Dr Jon Roffe
Alain Badiou's Interlocutors (Part 1)
Dr A.J. Bartlett
So, what was the enlightenment?
Dr Matthew Sharpe
Alain Badiou's Big Books Part 1: Theory of the Subject
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Winter School 2014
Georges Bataille on Religion and the Sacred
Dr Mark Hewson
Education: The Rational Kernel of the Platonic Dialogues
Dr A.J. Bartlett
Plato's Symposium: Philosophy versus science, poetry, and politics
Dr Martin Black
Lyotard's Aesthetics (2 part course)
Dr Ashley Woodward
Militant readings: politics and literature in 20th century French philosophy from Sartre to Rancière, Blanchot to Badiou.
Robert Boncardo
Introduction to Hegelian Aesthetics
Daniel Fairfax
Evening School Semester 1 2014
The Works of Gilles Deleuze (Deleuze Seminar VII Part 1)
Dr Jon Roffe
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: "Plenipotentiary for the In-Itself that Does not Yet Exist"
Bryan Cooke
Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory
Nicholas Heron
Summer School 2014
Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics and Primordial Percipience
Anya Daly
Introduction to Jacques Rancière (2 part course)
Robert Boncardo, Gene Flenady, James Muldoon, David Sweeney
Education: Four Discourses
Dr Adam Bartlett
Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles
Robert Boncardo
Deleuze's Bergsonism
Dr Craig Lundy
The Phaedrus: Plato's teaching on philosophy, love, poetry, and writing
Dr Martin Black
Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity
Dr Jon Roffe
Women: Between Faith and Reason
Dr Petra Brown
Castoriadis, Lefort, Abensour: Another Imaginary in French political thought
Sergio Mariscal
Evening School Semester 2, 2013
Art and Politics: The Aesthetic Revolutions of Modernity
James Muldoon, Sam Cuff Snow, Conall Cash, David Blencowe, Gene Flenady
Levinas and Blanchot on Image and Art
Dr Mark Hewson
Deleuze Seminar V: The Fold
Dr Jon Roffe
Albert Camus: Philosopher, Resistant, and Litterateur
Dr Matthew Sharpe
Winter School 2013
Spinoza: Passion, Politics and the Power of Reason
Bryan Cooke
Several Matters of Life and Death: The Crux between Classical and Modern Philosophy (Happiness, Death, Nobility, Science, and Poetry)
Dr Martin Black
Later Heidegger
Prof Mark Wrathall
Introduction to Abstract Market Theory
Dr Jon Roffe
What do we know? Aristotle and Bacon on the Nature of Knowing
Dr Matthew Sharpe
Philosophies of Cinematic Presence
Daniel Fairfax
Anarchist Views on the Nation-State
Dr Sagar Sanyal
An Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics
Dr Mammad Aidani
Evening School Semester 1 2013
An Introduction to Deleuze's Film-Philosophy: The Movement Image
Mairead Phillips
After Foucault: Maurizio Lazzarato and Contemporary Critiques of Capitalism
James Muldoon
Deleuze Seminar IV: What is Philosophy?
Dr Jon Roffe
Summer School 2013
The Literary Remains of René Descartes
Marc Hiatt
In the Light of Speed: The Thought of Paul Virilio
Dr Jon Roffe
Philosophy, Biology and the Imagination
Dr Undine Sellbach
Biosemiotics – A Philosophical Introduction
Dr Maurita Harney
Aristotle's Aporetic Ontology
Tim Johannessen
Philosophy and Development: Who speaks for the poor?
Lecturers: David Sweeney and Dr Laura Griffin
Hitchcock and Theory: The French Connection
Mairead Phillips
Hegel and Politics: Dialectics of the Will
James Muldoon
Georges Bataille
Dr Mark Hewson
Evening School Semester 2 2012
Deleuze Seminar III: Difference and Repetition and A Thousand Plateaus
Dr Jon Roffe
Philosophy as a Way of Life from The Stoics to Nietzsche
Dr Matthew Sharpe
Winter School 2012
Freedom, Knowledge and the Philosophy of the Young Rudolf Steiner
David John Sweeney
The Antichrist Saints: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre
Ross Barham
Philosophising Cinematic Montage
Daniel Fairfax
Poetry, Philosophy, Politics: Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language
Robert Boncardo
The Foundations of Modernity: Readings in Early Modern Philosophy
Dr Martin Black
Plato on the Soul, Being and eros: A Discussion of the Parmenides, Symposium, and Phaedo
Dr Martin Black
Evening School Semester 1 2012
Contingency, Irony, and Trust: An Introduction to Rorty and Brandom
Gilles Bouche
Hegel: Philosopher of the Modern - A reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Bryan Cooke
Occupolitics: Political Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
James Muldoon
Summer School 2012
The Early Wittgenstein: Mysticism and the Limits of Philosophy
Paul Daniels
The ‘Singular Universal': Jean-Paul Sartre's ‘Existential Biographies'
Robert Boncardo
Changing Images of Knowledge in Modernity
Lecturers: Dr M. Sharpe & Dr K. Camilleri
Introduction to Freud
Dr Jason Freddi
History of Mathematics: Stories Retold, Stories Forgotten
David Sweeney
Mallarmé and the Philosophers
Dr Mark Hewson
Philosophy in Ancient Greek Theatre
Steven Churchill
The Inhuman Condition: Nihilism / Information / Art
Dr Ashley Woodward
Foucault's Critique of Neoliberalism
James Muldoon
Evening School Semester 2 2011
Early Derrida: An Introductory Course
Andrea Leon
Kant's Transcendental Idealism: The Critique of Pure Reason read through Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
Sherah Bloor
Deleuze Seminar II
Jon Roffe
Winter School 2011
Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy: The Dionysiac Critique of Modernity
Paul Daniels
What is Phenomenology?
Dr David Rathbone
A Reading of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
Dr Martin Black
An Introduction to Aristotle
Dr Martin Black
Heidegger's Being and Time
James Garrett
Sartre and Sexuality
Steven Churchill
Marcel Gauchet: Religion and Modernity
Dr Mark Hewson
Alfred Hitchcock and the Unstable Image
Mairead Phillips
Evening School Semester One 2011
Deleuze Seminar
Jon Roffe
Objective Mind in Hegel
David Rathbone
Summer School 2011
Aesthetics: A Philosophical Introduction
Cameron Shingleton
Introduction to Jacques Lacan
Bryan Cooke
Phenomenology meets the Neurosciences
Maurita Harney
Deleuze and Cinema
Jon Roffe
Brandom's Linguistic Rationalism
Gilles Bouche
Jacob Klein: Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
David Sweeny
European Philosophy and The Law (2 Part Course)
Various Presenters
The Philosophy of Alain Badiou (2 Part Course)
Jon Roffe, Justin Clemens, Adam Bartlett
Winter School 2010
Lévinas and Derrida: another time at the anarche of subjectivity
Andrea León
Maurice Blanchot: literature and the ambiguity of the negative
Mark Hewson
Heidegger's Aristotle
James Garrett
History of Philosophy II: Plato
Martin Black
Spinoza's Ethics
Jon Roffe
Max Weber - Social Philosopher
Cameron Shingleton
Summer School 2010
Deleuze's Leibniz: The Fold
Sean Bowden
Foucault's Archeology Of Knowledge
Jon Roffe
Nietzsche's Legacy: Existentialism, Post-Structuralism, Transhumanism
Ashley Woodward
Phenomenology Meets The Neurosciences
Maurita Harney
Problem Of Socrates: Plato, Xenophon And The Limits Of Philosophy
Bryan Cooke
History Of Philosophy I: The Presocratics
James Garrett
Jacques Lacan And Leo Strauss: A Symposium On The Ancient And The Modern
Matthew Sharpe
Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy Of Radical Alterity
Andrea León-Monterro
Winter School 2009
Meaning and Metaphor in Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
Paul Daniels
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition
Jon Roffe
Kant's Critical Philosophy (2 Part Course)
Marc Hiatt, Philip Quadrio & Paul Daniels
Marx and Marxism
Andy Blunden
Recent Continental Rationalism
Jon Roffe
Evening School Semester 1 2009
Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times
Cameron Shingleton
Summer School 2009
Foucault and Hadot: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Ashley Woodward
History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy, Part 2 (Late Medieval Era)
Ian Weeks
History of Philosophy V: Rationalism
Jon Roffe
Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction
James Williams
Heidegger's Being and Time
James Garrett
On Slavoj Zizek's Political Theory, or: Would You Like A Politics With That?
Matthew Sharpe and Geoff Boucher
Dialectics of Enlightenment
Bryan Cooke
Evening School Semester 2 2008
Global Warming: An Economic Perspective
Jim Crosthwaite
Winter School 2008
History of Philosophy III: Aristotle: the Practical Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe and James Garrett
Intepretations of Nietzsche
Various Presenters
History of Philosohy IV: Medieval Philosophy I
Ian Weeks
Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
Mark Hewson
Mind and Society: Robert Brandom and the Continental Tradition
Andrew Montin and Gilles Bouche
And Introduction to Hegel's Logic
Andy Blunden
Evening School Semester 1 2008
Images of Nature: A Philosophical Introduction to an Environmental Ethics
Cameron Shingleton
Global Warming: The Science and its Implications
Phillip Sutton
Summer School 2008
History of Philosophy I: The Presocratics
David Rathbone
Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: Music, Science and Philosophy
Paul Daniels
History of Philosophy II: Plato and his Contemporaries
Matthew Sharpe and James Garrett
Women in Dark Times: Arendt and Heller
Matthew Sharpe, Lucy Ward and Sergio Mariscal
Emmanual Levinas: Philosopher of Radical Alterity
Andrea Leon-Montero
Thinking the Analytic/Continental Divide
Jack Reynolds and George Duke
The Pleasures: Of Political Philosophy and Other Interruptions
Bryan Cooke
Alain Badiou's Being and Event
Jon Roffe
Winter School 2007
The Philosophy of GWF Hegel
Andy Blunden
Derrida - Writing and Difference
Convened by Jack Reynolds, Various presenters
20th Century German Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe and Marc Hiatt
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition
Graham Jones and Jon Roffe
Introduction to the Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Paul Daniels
Summer School 2007
Postmodern Conservatism
Matthew Sharpe and Geoff Boucher
Contemporary Cultural Conundrums
Various convenors
French Feminism
Joanne Faulkner
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
Jon Roffe
Psychoanalysis - A Philosophy of Mind?
Joanne Faulkner with Matthew Sharpe
MSCP History of Philosophy 6: Modern Empiricism
Jon Roffe
Winter School 2006
Hegel: The Whole Picture
David Rathbone
History of Philosophy V: The Modern Rationalists
Jon Roffe
Adorno: the defense of Geist
Bryan Cooke and Marc Hiatt
Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
Graham Jones and Jon Roffe
Summer School 2006
History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy (part 2)
Joint presentation, convened by Cameron Shingleton and Marion Tapper
History of Philosophy III: Aristotle
Craig Barrie and Bryan Cooke
Three Centuries of Aphorisms
Cameron Shingleton
Democracy, Elites and Violence
Matthew Sharpe
Lyotard: The libidinal and the figural
Ashley Woodward
Introduction to the Philosophy of Alain Badiou
Jon Roffe
Winter School 2005
History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy (part 1)
David Rathbone
Nietzsche, History, Democracy
John Greene
The Thought of Martin Heidegger
Joint presentation, convened by Sean Ryan
Summer School 2005
History of Philosophy I: The PreSocratics
David Rathbone
History of Philosophy II: Plato and his contemporaries
Fiona Leigh
Introduction to Existentialism
Jack Reynolds
Introduction to Continental Philosophy
Joint presentation, convened by Ashley Woodward
Leo Strauss and the Neo Cons: Secrets, (Noble) Lies and Politics
Matthew Sharpe
Reading Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Paul Daniels
The Thought of Michel Foucault
Jon Roffe
Winter School 2004
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Jon Roffe
Baudrillard, Bataille, Derrida: Marcel Mauss' gift to continental philosophy
Matthew Sharpe (with Ashley Woodward on Baudrillard and Jon Roffe on Derrida)
Summer School 2004
Jean Baudrillard
Ashley Woodward
Phenomenology of Embodiment
Felicity Joseph
Kant and Psychoanalysis
Matthew Sharpe
Derrida circa 1972
Jon Roffe
Philosophy as Public Art
Esther Anatolitis
Winter School 2003
Themes from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
Jon Roffe
Introducing Critical Theory
Matthew Sharpe
Summer School 2003
Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
David Rathbone
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cameron Shingleton
Martin Heidegger: an introduction to his 'way' of thinking
Craig Barrie
Jean-François Lyotard: the sublime and the differend
Ashley Woodward
Ideology and Aesthetics
Matthew Sharpe
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Jon Roffe