Philosophy at Murdoch University

Dr Lubica Ucnik


Research

Continental philosophy: Grotius, Pufendorf, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger
Phenomenological Philosophy
Socrates’s care for the soul: Arendt, Foucault, Patočka
Film and philosophy

Publications

Book:

European Discourses on Rights. The Quest for Statehood in Europe: The Case of Slovakia. Multiple Europes. Ed. Bo Stråth. Bruxelles, Bern, Frankfurt/M., New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003

Book Chapters:

“Aesthetics or Ethics? Italian Neorealism and the Czechoslovak Cinema.” Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Eds. Laura E. Ruberto, and Kristi M. Wilson. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2007, 54-71

“The Individual at the End of History.” Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives. Eds. Gideon Calder, Edward Garrett and Jess Shannon. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, 128-144

“The Discourse of Liberalism in Post-Socialist Europe.” Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order. Eds. Bob Brecher, Jo Halliday and Klára Kolinská. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998, 61-76

Journal Article:

Esse or Habere. To Be or To Have: Patočka’s Critique of Husserl and Heidegger.” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Vol. 38, No. 3. October 2007, 297-317

“Patočka on Techno-Power and Responsibility.” Studia Phaenomenologica: Jan Patočka and the European Heritage. Cristian Ciocan, journal ed.; Ivan Chvatík, guest ed. Vol. VII. 2007, 409-434

“Kant on Relations and the Selbstsetzungslehre [Self-Positing].” Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 10. 2006, 65-93

“Kant: Sensus Communis and Public Reasoning.” Trans. into Portuguese by Nuno Coimbra Mesquita. Impulso. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 15, No. 38, Sept. - Dec 2004, 105-117

“Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus: An Answer to Robert Kagan.” Arena Journal. No. 21. 2003/2004, 127-150

Conference Proceedings:

“Patočka on Techno-Power and the Sacrificial Victim (Oběť). Jan Patocka 1907 – 1977 and the 37th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle. In Press

Contact:

Room

E/H 4.057

Phone

08 9360 2313

Email

L.Ucnik@murdoch.edu.au

 

Units:

PHL131

Critical and Creative Thinking

PHL214/414

Film and Philosophy

PHL217/417

Meaning and Interpretation

PHL277/477

Life, Death, and Meaning

 

 

 

 

 

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