Staff profile

Dr Jack Alan Reynolds

Deputy Dean, Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 203, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Melbourne), PhD (ANU).

Membership of professional associations

Australasian Association of Philosophy, Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy, Merleau-Ponty Circle.

Area of study

European Studies
Philosophy

Brief profile

Jack Reynolds is Deputy Dean, Associate Professor and Philosophy Program Coordinator at La Trobe University. He has written four books: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (Lexington Books 2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Acumen 2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio 2004), Understanding Existentialism (Acumen 2006). He has also co-edited four collections: Continuum Companion to Existentialism (2011), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (Continuum 2010), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen 2008) and Understanding Derrida (Continuum 2004). He is currently doing research on inter-subjectivity and the perception of others, drawing on the phenomenological tradition as well as findings in developmental psychology and the cognitive sciences.

Research interests

History of Philosophy

- Contemporary European Philosophy

Philosophy of the Mind

- Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy

- Existentialism and Phenomenology

- Metaphilosophy and Methodology

Political Theory and Political Philosophy

- Political Philosophy

Teaching units

  • PHI1PPR - Philosophical Problems.
  • PHI2/3BAW - Being and World.
  • PHI2/3LDM - Love, Desire and the Master-slave Dialectic.
  • PHI2/3PMP – Postmodernism.
  • PHI2/3VML - Values, Meaning and the Good Life.

Recent publications

Books

  • Chronopathologies: Time and Politics in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012.
  • Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy Co-authored with James Chase, Durham, UK: Acumen 2010.
  • Understanding Existentialism Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2006 (co-published in US with McGill-Queens 2006.
  • Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004.

Edited book collections

  • Global Arts / Local Knowledge Co-edited with Helene Frichot and Felicity Colman, New York: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2014.
  • Sartre: Key Concepts Co-edited with Steven Churchill, Durham, UK: Acumen 2013.
  • Continuum Companion to Existentialism Co-edited with Ashley Woodward and Felicity Joseph, London: Continuum 2011.
  • Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides Co-edited with James Chase, James Williams, Edwin Mares, London: Continuum 2010.
  • Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts Co-edited with Rosalyn Diprose, Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2008 (co-published in US with McGill-Queens).
  • Understanding Derrida Co-edited with Jon Roffe, London: Continuum Publishing, 2004.

Selected Refereed Articles

  • “Jacques Derrida”, co-authored with Peter Gratton, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • “Time, Philosophy and Chronopathologies”, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Issue 15, December 2012.
  • “Transcendental Arguments about Other Minds and Intersubjectivity”, with Matheson Russell, Philosophy Compass, Vol. 6, No. 5, 2011, p300-311.
  • “Common Sense and Methodology: Some Metaphilosophical Reflections on Deleuze and Analytic Philosophy”, Philosophical Forum, Vol. 41, No. 3 2010, p231-58.
  • “The Problem of Other Minds: Solutions and Dissolutions in Analytic and Continental Philosophy”, Philosophy Compass. Vol. 5 No. 4 2010, p326-35.
  • “Time out of Joint: Between Phenomenology and Poststructuralism”, Parrhesia: A Critical Journal of Philosophy, No. 9, 2010, p55-64.
  • “Derrida, Friendship, and the Transcendental Priority of the ‘Untimely’”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 6, No. 36 2010, p663-676.
  • “The Master-slave dialectic and the ‘sado-masochistic entity’: Some Objections”, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2009, p11-25.
  • “Chickening Out and the Idea of Continental Philosophy”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol 17, No. 2, p255-72, 2009
  • “Reply to Glendinning”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol 17, No. 2, p281-7, 2009.
  • “Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida’s Reading of Merleau-Ponty in Le Toucher” Sophia, Vol. 47, No. 3, October 2008, p311-25.
  • “Transcendental Priority and Deleuzian Normativity: Reply to James Williams”, Deleuze Studies, Vol. 3, June 2008, p 101-8.
  • “Deleuze’s other-structure: beyond the master-slave dialectic but at what cost?”, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol 12, No. 1, Spring 2008, p67-88.
  • “Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time (and the Ethics) of the Event”, Deleuze Studies, Vol. 2, December 2007, p144-66.
  • “Deleuze and Dreyfus on l’habitude, coping and trauma in skill acquisition”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 2006, p563-83.
  • “Negotiating the non-negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the intertwining of political calculation and ultra-politics”, Theory and Event, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2006.
  • “Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Immanence, Univocity, and Phenomenology”, co-authored with Jon Roffe, The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 37, No. 3, October 2006, p228-51.

Selected chapters in books

  •  “Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: Complementary Anti-theoretical Ethical and Methodological Trajectories?” Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics, eds. K. Hermberg and P. Gyllenhammer, London: Continuum 2013.
  • "Sartre's Legacy", co-written with Steven Churchill, Sartre: Key Concepts, eds. S. Churchill and J. Reynolds, Acumen 2013.
  • “Existentialism and Politics”, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T. Gibbons, Wiley-Blackwell 2013.
  • “Existentialism and Phenomenological Method”, co-written with Felicity Joseph, Continuum Companion to Existentialism, eds. J. Reynolds, A. Woodward, F. Joseph, London: Continuum 2011, p. 15-35.
  • “Existentialism and Post-structuralism: Some Unfashionable Observations”, co-written with Ashley Woodward, Continuum Companion to Existentialism, eds. J. Reynolds, A. Woodward, F. Joseph, London: Continuum 2011, p. 260-281.
  • “Existentialism”, Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, ed. S. Overgaard, and S. Luft, London: Routledge 2011, p. 485-95.
  • “The Analytic/Continental Divide: A Contretemps?”, The Antipodean Philosopher: Public Lectures in Australasia, Vol. 2, ed. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, New York: Lexington Books 2010.
  • “The Fate of Transcendental Reasoning in Contemporary Philosophy”, co-written with James Chase, Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, eds. J. Reynolds, J. Chase, J. Williams, and E. Mares, London: Continuum, 2010.

Research projects

Jack is currently doing research on two main areas in which he holds Australian Research Council Discovery grants: methodological comparisons and evaluations between analytic and continental philosophers; and he is also exploring the relationship between ways of conceptualising time and socio-political life, with a forthcoming book titled Chronopathologies.: Time and Transcendental Philosophy. He is also exploring issues in relation to the perception of other people, and aims to deploy phenomenological insights and recent discoveries in cognitive science to overturn the dominant ‘mind-reading’ paradigms, in which some kind of inference is said to be required for social cognition to be possible.