Dr Michael Ure - Researcher Profile

Biography

Michael Ure is a Lecturer in Politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. From 2007 to 2010 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. His research is in the field of political and social theory and modern European philosophy.

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

PHD- HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2004

Publications

Books

Ure, M., 2008, Nietzsche's Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works, Lexington Books, Lanham MD USA.

Book Chapters

Ure, M., 2011, Sympathy for the devil, in On Jean Amery: Philosophy of Catastrophe, eds Magdalena Zolkos, Lexington Books, Lanham USA, pp. 235-262.

Journal Articles

Ure, M.V., 2011, Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Mortality": An introduction (review), Journal of Nietzsche Studies [P], vol 41, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, United States, pp. 121-125.

Ure, M., 2009, Nietzsche's free spirit trilogy and Stoic therapy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies [P], vol 38, Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 60-84.

Ure, M., 2008, Post-traumatic societies: On reconciliation, justice and the emotions, European Journal of Social Theory [P], vol 11, issue 3, SAGE Publications, UK, pp. 283-297.

Ure, M.V., 2007, Senecan moods: Foucault and Nietzche on the art of the self, Foucault Studies, vol 4, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, pp. 19-52.

Ure, M., 2007, The politics of mercy, forgiveness and love: A Nietzschean appraisal1, South African Journal Of Philosophy [P], vol 26, issue 1, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, South Africa, pp. 56-66.

Ure, M.V., 2006, Review of: Martin Jay, Refractions of Violence (Routledge, 2003), Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology [P], vol 85, Sage, Clayton, Australia, pp. 125-130.

Ure, M., 2006, The irony of pity: Nietzsche contra Schopenhauer and Rousseau, Journal of Nietzsche Studies [P], vol 32, Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania US, pp. 68-91.

Ure, M.V., 2005, Stoic comedians: Nietzsche and Freud on the art of arranging one's humours, Nietzsche-Studien [P], vol 34, De Gruyter, Berlin Germany, pp. 186-216.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

After the apology.

Supervisors:

Ure, M (Main), Davis, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Conspiracy narratives in contemporary society: from pathology to practice.

Supervisors:

Ure, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

How to make good global citizens: an empirical investigation of ethical cosmopolitanism.

Supervisors:

Walter, J (Main), Ure, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Nietzsche on Freedom and Forgetting.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Ure, M (Associate), Janover, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Rediscovering the Radical.

Supervisors:

Ure, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Solitude and solidarity in Nietzsche.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint), Ure, M (Joint-co).