Dr Matthew Sharpe
Research interests
Doctor Matthew Sharpe is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (2004, Ashgate), co-author of Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction (2010, Edinburgh), Understanding Psychoanalysis (2008, Acumen) and The Times Will Suit Them: Postmdoern Conservatism in Australia (2007, Allen & Unwin); he is also co-editor of Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek (2005, Ashgate).
Dr Sharpe completed his PhD on Slavoj Žižek at the University of Melbourne in 2002, after completing his honours thesis on the political philosophy of Albert Camus in 1998. He has since published extensively in psychoanalysis — on Slavoj Žižek in particular, and the interface between Lacanian psychoanalysis and political theory more generally. He is also the author of refereed journal articles on modern continental, post-Kantian thought, reactionary conservative thinkers like Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and Joseph de Maistre, and classical philosophy.
His ongoing research interests include political philosophy, psychoanalysis and critical theory, the philosophies of art and law, and classical political thought. He has recently commenced writing two manuscripts, one on the Politics of Aristotle, and a large-scale comparative project: Leo Strauss and Jacques Lacan: The Ancient and the Modern.
Dr Sharpe is also a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy where he taught annual summer school courses between 2002 and 2010. As well as playing futsal and trying to keep fit, he is presently making a study of classical Greek, and fragile attempts to internalise Stoic practices of living.
Current academic postion
Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies in the School of International & Political Studies, Deakin University, Australia
Contact information
Email: matthew.sharpe@deakin.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 522 72578