James Andrew Phillips

I have been at UNSW since 2006, first as a Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow, then as an ARC Australian Research Fellow (2007-2011), before taking up a combined research-teaching position in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Languages. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, undertook an MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at Monash University, and was then awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2002. During my doctoral studies I spent nine months in Innsbruck as an OeAD scholar and six months in Potsdam as a DAAD scholar. I have since then been a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and a resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. Apart from the publications listed below, I have also translated two books: Christoph Menke, Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009) and Alexander García Düttmann, Philosophy of Exaggeration (London: Continuum, 2007). aesthetics, literary criticism, political theory, film and philosophy, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Phenomenology, Cinema studies, Political theory and political philosophy, British and Irish literature, History of philosophy

“Heidegger’s Technology Essay and the Uncanniness of Τέχνη”, Human Studies (accepted January 2026) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-026-09835-3 “The Underlying Agreement of the Sensus Communis: Gadamer and Habermas on Tradition”, Études Phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies (accepted January 2026) "Kant and Arendt as Spectators of Revolutions" in Hannah Arendt’s Kant Lectures, ed. Nicholas Dunn (De Gruyter, accepted February 2026) English Literature and the Aesthetics of Community: The Sensus Communis from Beowulf to Beckett (Bloomsbury, accepted February 2026) “Intolerable Reds: The Dress, Hair and Blood of a Woman in Black-and-White Film”, Camera Obscura (accepted August 2026)