Associate Professor Diego Bubbio

Associate Professor Diego Bubbio

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts

Biography

Paolo Diego Bubbio has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and Literature and a Ph.D in Philosophical Hermeneutics from the University of Turin (Italy). He was Contract Researcher, University of Turin, 2003-2004; Research Fellow, Heythrop College (University of London), 2004-2005; Visiting Fellow, University of Warwick, 2008; Professore a Contratto (Visiting Professor), University of Turin, 2005-2009. In 2006 he moved to Australia to take up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy at The University of Sydney. In 2009 he got an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship from the ARC on a joint project (together with Prof Paul Redding) on 'The God of Hegel's Post-Kantian Idealism'. In 2011 he got an ARC Future Fellowship on a project entitled "The Quest for the I: Reaching a Better Understanding of the Self through Hegel and Heidegger" and joined the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University.

For further information, see Diego Bubbio's profile on Academia.edu: https://unito.academia.edu/PaoloDiegoBubbio.

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Bubbio.

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Turin Italy

Professional Memberships

  • Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (2006 - 2019)

Interests

  • Cultural Theory
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy
  • Philosophy of religion

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts

Contact

Email: D.Bubbio@westernsydney.edu.au
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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 101912 Western Political Philosophy, 2020
  • 101918 Introduction to Philosophy, 2018
  • 101918 Introduction to Philosophy, 2021
  • 101965 Philosophy of Religion, 2016
  • 101965 Philosophy of Religion, 2019
  • 102379 Special Topics in Philosophy, 2017
  • 102382 Research Project in Philosophy, 2021
  • 102415 Key Philosophers, 2017
  • 102420 Classics of Modern Philosophy, 2017
  • 102618 Practical Philosophy, 2019

Publications

Books

  • Bubbio, P. and Fleming, C. (2019), 'Mimetic Theory and Film', : Bloomsbury 9781501334832.
  • Bubbio, P. and Malpas, J. (2019), 'Why Philosophy?', : Walter de Gruyter 9783110649178.
  • Bubbio, D. (2018), 'Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes', : Michigan State University Press 9781611862737.
  • Bubbio, D. (2017), 'God and the Self in Hegel: Beyond Subjectivism', : State University of New York Press 9781438465258.
  • Bubbio, D. (2014), 'Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition', : State University of New York Press 9781438452517.
  • Bubbio, D. and Redding, P. (2012), 'Religion After Kant. God and Culture in the Idealist Era', : Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443835183.
  • Bubbio, D. (2004), 'Il Sacrificio. La Ragione e il suo Altrove [Sacrifice. Reason and its Other]', : Citta Nuova 8831101404.
  • Bubbio, D. (1999), 'Il Sacrificio Intellettuale: Rene Girard e la Filosofia della Religione', : Il Quadrante Edizioni .

Chapters in Books

  • Bubbio, P. (2021), 'From the hermeneutic of violence to redemption : The 100 and mimetic theory', Rene Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, Lexington Books 9781978710085.
  • Bubbio, P. (2019), 'A sacrificial crisis not far away : Star Wars as a genuinely modern mythology', Mimetic Theory and Film, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501334832.
  • Fleming, C. and Bubbio, P. (2019), 'Introduction [Mimetic Theory and Film]', Mimetic Theory and Film, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501334832.
  • Bubbio, P. (2019), 'Why we need philosophy - and philosophers', Why Philosophy?, De Gruyter 9783110649178.
  • Bubbio, P. and Malpas, J. (2019), 'Introduction : why philosophy?', Why Philosophy?, Walter de Gruyter 9783110649178.
  • Bubbio, P. (2019), 'Hegel, Heidegger e l'interpretazione dell'esperienza', La Filosofia Attraverso il Prisma delle Culture: Dialoghi con Maurizio Pagano, Edizioni ETS 9788846757210.
  • Bubbio, D. (2018), 'It's tragic, but that's great : K. W. F. Solger and humor as the key to metaphysics', All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Springer 9783319913308.
  • Bubbio, P. (2018), 'The "I" beyond the subject/object opposition : Pareyson's conception of the self between Hegel and Heidegger', Thinking the Inexhaustible: Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson, State University of New York Press 9781438470252.
  • Bubbio, D. (2017), 'The development of the self', The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion, Palgrave Macmillan 9781137552808.
  • Bubbio, D. (2015), 'The self in crisis : watching Mad Men and Homeland with Girard and Hegel', Mimesis, Movies, and Media, Bloomsbury Academic 9781628924640.
  • Bubbio, D. (2014), 'Mimetic theory and hermeneutic communism', Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Volume 2, Rene Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love, and Literature, Bloomsbury Academic 9781623561963.
  • Bubbio, D. (2014), 'L'Estetica nel dibattito anglosassone contemporaneo sulla metafisica hegeliana', L'Estetica di Hegel, il Mulino 9788815248275.
  • Bubbio, D. (2013), 'La teoria mimetica e la prova ontologica dell'esistenza di Dio', La Pietra dello Scandalo: la Sfida Antropologica del Pensiero di Rene Girard, Transeuropa 9788875802233.
  • Bubbio, D. (2013), 'La filosofia della religione tra nuovi atei e nuovi teisti', Religione e Ontologia, Aracne Editrice 9788854863965.
  • Bubbio, D. (2012), 'Kierkegaard is standing by himself - through Hegel's help : the notion of sacrifice in Kierkegaard's Works of Love', Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443835183.
  • Bubbio, D. (2009), 'Luigi Pareyson: the Third Way to Hermeneutics', Existence, Interpretation, Freedom. Selected Writings, The Davies Group Publishers 9781934542187.
  • Bubbio, D. (2009), 'Metaphilosophical Reflections on Theism and Atheism in the Current Debate', Politics and Religion in the New Century. Philosophical Reflection, Sydney University Press 9781920899318.
  • Bubbio, D. (2009), 'Prospettivismo e secolarizzazione. L'eredita post-kantiana della teoria mimetica', Religioni Laicita Secolarizzazione. Il Cristianesimo come "fine del sacro" in Rene Girard, Transeuropa 8875800596.
  • Bubbio, D. (2008), 'The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power: Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy', Nietzsche, Power and Politics. Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought, de Gruyter 9783110202373.
  • Bubbio, D. (2008), 'Secolarizzare il Male. La Teoria Mimetica e l'Adolescente di Dostoevskij', Male e Redenzione. Sofferenza e Trascendenza in Rene Girard, Edizioni Camilliane 978882571696.
  • Bubbio, D. (2007), 'Il Rovesciamento del Concetto', L'Esistenza e il Logos. Filosofia, Esperienza religiosa, Rivelazione, Citta' Nuova 9788831101561.
  • Bubbio, D. (2005), 'If there is a plot'. Gabriel Marcel and Second-Degree Reflection', Between Description and Interpretation. The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology, The Hermeneutic Press 095253359.
  • Bubbio, D. (2005), 'La scelta del senso. Gabriel Marcel e l'attraversamento del nichilismo', Nichilismo e questione del senso. Da Nietzsche a Derrida, Aracne 8854801038.
  • Bubbio, D. (2005), 'L'Abramo impossibile : il concetto di sacrificio nel pensiero di Kierkegaard', NotaBene: Quaderni di Studi Kierkegaardiani. Vol. 4, L'Edificante in Kierkegaard, NuovoMelangolo 9788870185713.
  • Bubbio, D. (2004), 'Ira, demoniaco e sacrificio in Kierkegaard', Ira e Sacrificio: Negazione del Divino e dell'Umano?, Las 882130549X.

Journal Articles

  • Bubbio, P. and Fulvi, D. (2022), 'Immanence in Schelling and Hegel in the Jena period', Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol 60, no 3 , pp 353 - 387.
  • Bubbio, P. (2020), 'Perspectivity, intersubjectivity, normativity : on Malpas's Place and Experience', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 28, no 2 , pp 285 - 299.
  • Barbour, C., Bubbio, P., Fleming, C., Ling, A. and Schmidt, D. (2020), 'Journal of Continental Philosophy : editorial statement', Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol 1, no 1 .
  • Bubbio, P. (2019), 'Not just a metaphor : Hegel's God and the normativity of metaphysics', Philosophy Today, vol 63, no 2 , pp 561 - 565.
  • Bubbio, P. (2019), 'Hegel : from the I to the spirit', Epoche, vol 24, no 1 , pp 115 - 132.
  • Bubbio, D. (2018), 'Self and nature in Heidegger', Research in Phenomenology, vol 48, no 2 , pp 175 - 196.
  • Bubbio, D. (2017), 'The I and World history in Hegel', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 25, no 4 , pp 706 - 726.
  • Bubbio, D. (2017), 'Organicism and perspectivism from Leibniz to Hegel : on Mensch's Kant's Organicism', Philosophy Today, vol 61, no 3 , pp 785 - 791.
  • Bubbio, D. (2016), 'The reality of religion in Hegel's idealist metaphysics', Hegel Bulletin, vol 37, no 2 , pp 232 - 257.
  • Bubbio, D. (2015), 'Hegel, Heidegger, and the 'I' : preliminary reflections for a new paradigm of the self', Philosophy Today, vol 59, no 1 , pp 73 - 90.
  • Bubbio, D. (2015), 'Introduction', Philosophy Today, vol 59, no 1 , pp 1 - 5.
  • Bubbio, D. (2015), 'Hegel : death of God and recognition of the self', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 23, no 5 , pp 689 - 706.
  • Bubbio, D. (2014), 'Hegel, the Trinity, and the 'I'', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol 76, no 2 , pp 129 - 150.
  • Redding, P. and Bubbio, D. (2014), 'Hegel and the ontological argument for the existence of God', Religious Studies, vol 50, no 4 , pp 465 - 486.
  • Alberts, P., Bubbio, D., Barbour, C. and Ling, A. (2014), 'Editors' introduction : continental philosophy in Australia', Parrhesia, vol 21 , pp 1 - 2.
  • Bubbio, D. (2014), 'God, incarnation, and metaphysics in Hegel's philosophy of religion', Sophia, vol 53, no 4 , pp 515 - 533.
  • Bubbio, D. (2013), 'Kant's sacrificial turns', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol 73, no 2 , pp 97 - 115.
  • Bubbio, D. (2012), 'Sacrifice in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 20, no 4 , pp 797 - 815.
  • Bubbio, D. (2012), 'Kierkegaard's regulative sacrifice : a post-Kantian reading of Fear and Trembling', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 20, no 5 , pp 691 - 723.
  • Bubbio, D. (2010), 'Girard and Anselm : the ontological argument and mimetic theory', Analecta Hermeneutica, vol 2 , pp 1 - 10.
  • Bubbio, D. (2009), 'Solger and Hegel: Negation and Privation', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 17, no 2 , pp 173 - 187.
  • Bubbio, D. (2009), 'Solger's notion of sacrifice as double negation', The Heythop Journal, vol 50, no 2 , pp 206 - 214.
  • Bubbio, D. (2007), 'Literary Aesthetics and Knowledge in Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory', Literature & Aesthetics, vol 17, no 1 , pp 35 - 50.
  • Bubbio, D. (2005), 'Mimetic Theory and Hermeneutics', Colloquy: text theory critique, vol 9 , pp 16 - 28.
  • Bubbio, D. (2005), 'Nietzsche vs Nietzsche. Il sacrificio nel pensiero di Nietzsche', Studia Patavina: Rivista di Scienze Religiose, vol 51, no 3 , pp 171 - 185.
  • Bubbio, D. (2004), 'Oblazione e paradosso. L'evoluzione del pensiero di Rene Girard', Iride. Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica, vol 41 , pp 151 - 161.
  • Bubbio, D. (2004), 'La salvezza attraverso il sangue : tradizionalismo e modernita del pensiero di Joseph de Maistre', Bollettino della Societa Filosofica Italiana, vol 180 , pp 35 - 45.
  • Bubbio, D. (2003), 'Il paradosso del sacrificio : la ragione e il suo altrove nella filosofia contemporanea', Annuario Filosofico, vol 18 , pp 131 - 160.
  • Bubbio, D. (2000), 'Ermeneutica : ancora pensiero sacrificale? : Heidegger, Derrida, e Ricoeur secondo il pensiero di Rene Girard', Annuario Filosofico, vol 15 , pp 449 - 481.

A/Prof Bubbio's research is mainly in the area of post-Kantian philosophy. In particular he is interested in the relationship of the post-Kantian tradition (from Kant to Nietzsche) to the later movements of European philosophy, such as existentialism and hermeneutics, and in issues in philosophy of religion. He is presently working on a research project on the notion of the 'I' in Hegel and Heidegger. He also has an ongoing interest in Rene Girard's mimetic theory.

Dr Bubbio's research and supervision interests include: German idealism (particularly Hegel), Nietzsche studies, Existentialism and Hermeneutics (particularly Heidegger), Philosophy of Religion, and René Girard's mimetic theory.

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Bubbio.

Previous Projects

Title: The quest for the "I": reaching a better understanding of the self through Hegel and Heidegger
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Diego Bubbio
Years: 2012-08-01 - 2016-07-31
ID: P00020242
Title: Mimetic Theory and Film
Funder:
  • The Thiel Foundation
Western Researchers: Diego Bubbio and Chris Fleming
Years: 2015-01-01 - 2015-12-31
ID: P00024649

Supervision

Associate Professor Bubbio is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Thesis Title: Musical Consciousness: how musicalities produce lifeworlds and becomings
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Seeking freedom and trust: Hegelian selfhood in tensile relation to the absolute
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Violence and Democracy: Constituent Power in Sorel, Benjamin, Arendt and Negri
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: The Ethics of Enjoyment as a Normative Theory and its Implications for Metaethics Supervisors
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: The Concept of Dance in Nietzsche and its Articulation with German Aesthetics and German Romanticism
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Waking Persephone - novel and exegesis
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Thesis Title: An Originary Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche in Light of Generative Anthropology
Field of Research: Anthropology; Philosophy And Religious Studies
Thesis Title: Creation and the Function of Art
Field of Research: Philosophy; Other Creative Arts; Creative Arts, N.e.c.
Thesis Title: Seculum, An Epic Trilogy in Verse by Peter Dale Scott: ?The Poem as Structure for a New Dawn?
Field of Research: Religious Studies; Literature; Creative Arts
Thesis Title: Philosophical Labour: The Critical Role of Hegel's Logics
Field of Research: History; Philosophy
Thesis Title: The Ontology of Evil: Schelling and Pareyson
Field of Research: History; Philosophy

Media

Title: Why Philosophy
Description: Interview at the ABC program The Philosophers Zone
Title: Kants Sacrificial Turns
Description: Talk at WSU, 24 October 2012
Title: The I and World History in Hegel
Description: Keynote Lecture, Kingston University, April 15, 2016
Title: Hegels Aesthetics
Description: Talk at the University of Padua (in Italian)
Title: The Quest for the I
Description: Article on the NewPhilosopher magazine

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