School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

Lecturer

Diane Morgan

BA, MA, DPhil, University of Sussex

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Research Interests

Cultural and Critical Theory (Frankfurt School); European philosophy (especially Enlightenment thought and the work of Immanuel Kant); Utopian Studies (especially C19th French "utopian" socialism); "Cosmopolitics" (questions relating to cultural and political transnationalism and international law); Aesthetics (including architectural theory).

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Teaching Interests

Cultural/Critical Theory; Aesthetics and Politics, Utopian Thought

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I am willing to supervise PhDs on the following topics:

I would be willing to supervise students on any of the above topics/ subject areas.

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Key Publications

Monograph

Kant Trouble: The Obscurities of the Enlightened (Routledge 2000) ISBN 0-415-18353-7& 0-415-18352-9, 238 pages

Co-edited Volumes

Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of the Future co-edited with G. Banham (Palgrave 2007) 978-0-230-00152-7, 261 pages

Nihilism Now!: "Monsters of Energy" co-edited with Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Macmillan, 2000) ISBN 0-333-73292-8, 252 pages

Chapters in Books

'Activating and Acting On The Past: The Experience of History in August Sander’s and Richard Powers’ Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance', in Writing with Light: Words and Photographs in American Texts, ed. M Gidley (Peter Lang, January 2010) ISBN 978-3-03911-572-3 pp.163-184

'Introduction: Parts and Wholes - Kant, Communications, Communities & Cosmopolitics' & 'Goethe’s "Enhanced Praxis" and the Emergence of a Cosmopolitical Future', in Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future (Palgrave 2007), ed. D. Morgan & G. Banham (see above) pp. 1-14 & 235-255

'Nietzsche and National Identity', in A Companion to Nietzsche, ed. K Ansell Pearson (Blackwell 2006) ISBN 1-4051-1622-6 , pp. 455-474

'Postmodernism and Architecture', in The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism, ed. S Sim, revised second edition (Routledge 2005) ISBN 0415 33359 8, pp. 71-80; original version printed in The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought, ed. S Sim (Icon, 1998) ISBN 1-874166-65-X to be revised 2010/1

Journal Articles

'Trading Hospitality: Kant, Cosmopolitics and Commercium', in Paragraph (Edinburgh 2009, Issue 32:1 Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time, ed. N Clark & M Dikec, pp. 105-122

'The Distractions of the Built Environment: Architecture as a Collective Work of Art', in Reproducing Art: Walter Benjamin’s 'The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction' Reconsidered, ed. P Allmer & J Sears, Special Issue of electronic journal Interculture (January 2008)

'Kant, Cosmopolitics and Multiperspectival Thinking and Technology', in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, General Issue ed. F Morlock (Taylor & Francis 2007) ISBN 978-0-415-44791-1, pp. 35-46

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Forthcoming Publications

Current Monograph Project

Cosmopolitics, Kant and Globality

Future Monograph Project

The Reaffirmation of Social Values in the work of C19th French 'Utopian' Socialists

Chapter in Book

'Saint-Simon, Fourier and Proudhon: "Utopian" French Socialism', in Vol. I (1780-1840) History of Continental Philosophy, General Editor, Professor Alan Schrift, Volume Editor, Professor Tom Nenon (Acumen Press, 2010)

Journal Article

«La terre est une sphère: la « globalité » et les sciences de la terre chez Kant », in Kant, la science et les sciences, ed. M. Lequan et al (Paris: Vrin 2010)

« Spielraum et Greifbarkeit: l’acheminement vers une architecture utopique », in Architecture et l’inconscient technologique (Paris : Editions de la Villette 2010)

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Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0)113 34 35008
Fax: +44 (0)113 34 37226
Email: d.l.morgan@leeds.ac.uk

School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Old Mining Building
University of Leeds
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
UK

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