Dr Joanne Faulkner

I am an ARC Research Fellow in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. My research interests include the philosophy of Nietzsche, psychoanalytic theory, feminism, literature, and social and political philosophy. You can view my UNSW profile page here.

I'm presently working on a book, The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children, contracted by Cambridge Australia.

The title of my PhD thesis was Dead Letters to Nietzsche: or the necromantic art of reading philosophy, and a book adapted from the thesis is in print with Ohio University Press. Dead Letters... addresses the relation of affect between Nietzsche's text and its reader: in particular, how Nietzsche's rhetoric organises the reader's desire and identity, and serves his project of the revaluation of values. The commentators upon which the book focuses include Sarah Kofman, Pierre Klossowski, David Farrell Krell, and Georges Bataille. The argument is elaborated with reference to the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, and Klein.

I have taught in the fields of:

• existentialism
  
• psychoanalysis
  
• post-structualism
  
• Nietzsche studies
  
• feminist philosophy
  
• political philosophy
  
• early modern philosophy
  
• free-will and determinism
  
• moral theory
  
• gender studies methodologies
  

I have published articles in Textual Practice, Hypatia, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Theory & Event and Diacritics, amongst other journals (see link to published work below).

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