Associate Professor Charles Barbour
Charles Barbour is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a school-based member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. His research falls into two broad fields: Marx and Marxism, and especially the intellectual history of the young Marx and his contemporaries; contemporary social and political theory, with a particular emphasis on questions of secrecy and deception. Along with dozens of journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of two monographs: 'The Marx-Machine: Politics, Polemics, Ideology' and 'Derrida's Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath'. He also writes for 'The Conversation' on questions of technology and society. He is currently developing a large collaborative and interdisciplinary project on Archives, Technology, and Secrecy.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, 2004, University of British Columbia
Research Focus
- Marx and Marxism
- Intellectual History
- Continental Philosophy
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Secrecy and Deception
Selected Publications
Barbour, C. 2023. ‘The Kreuznach Myth: Marx, Feuerbach, and the Critique of Hegel’, History of Political Thought (forthcoming).
Barbour, C. 2023. ‘Rhetoric, Affect, and “A Whole Lot of French Novels”: A Marxian Response’, Cultural Critique (forthcoming).
Barbour, C. 2023. ‘Last of the Schoolmen: The Young Marx, Latin Culture, and the Doctoral Dissertation’, European Legacy, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 44-64.
Barbour, C. 2022. ‘The True Practice is Theory: Edgar Bauer, Republicanism, and the Young Hegelians’, International Political Thought, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 640-660.
Barbour, C. 2021. ‘A Liberal Before Liberalism: Karl Hermann Scheidler and the New Hegelians’, Modern Intellectual History, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 658-680.
Barbour, C. 2021. ‘Karl Marx, Bruno Bauer, and the Ends of Classical German Theology’, Critique, vol. 49, no. 1-2, pp. 806-812.
Barbour, C. 2018. Derrida’s Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Barbour, C. 2012. The Marx-Machine: Politics, Polemics, Ideology, Lanham: Lexington Press.
Barbour, C. 2012, ‘Between Politics and Law: Hannah Arendt and the Subject of Rights’, Arendt and the Law, M. Goldoni and C. McCorkindale (eds.), London: Hart.
Barbour, C. 2012. ‘The Maker of Lies: Simmel, Mendacity, and the Economy of Faith’, Theory Culture and Society, Vol. 29, no. 7-8, pp. 218-236.
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