School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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The Essence of Friendship: A Generous Interpretation of Aristotle
Published 2025-06-02This paper revisits Aristotle’s account of friendship in The Nicomachean Ethics. I argue that Aristotle’s broad, detailed framework offers us a cogent characterisation of friendship that contemporary philosophical accounts ...Open AccessThesis -
Technē without Archē: Foucault’s Last Decade
Published 2025-03-18In this paper I use the concept of technē to argue that Foucault’s last decade is a unified program of research, offering a new interpretation of freedom in his later work. Whereas much of the existing scholarship treats ...Open AccessThesis -
Archiving Greer/Greer Archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies
Published 2023This article draws upon my engagement with the archive of controversial Australian celebrity feminist Germaine Greer to think through the role of archival methodologies within the field of feminist celebrity studies, ...Open AccessArticle -
‘The most revolting ideas I’ve read in a woman’s magazine’: The Female Eunuch, Affective (dis)investments, and McCall’s reader-writers’
Published 2020In March 1971, American women’s magazine McCall’s published an extract of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch. Myriad unpublished letters to the editor contained in the Greer archive at the University of Melbourne reveal ...Open AccessArticle -
Disobedient Discourse: Mill, ContraPoints, and the Limits of Free Speech Norms
Published 2024-02-02In this paper, I explore contemporary disagreement regarding protests against speakers deemed regressive or bigoted by progressive activists. I do so by examining the rationale, scope, and operation of free speech norms ...Open AccessThesis