Paul R. Patton

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era = Contemporary philosophy
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name = Paul Patton
birth = Australia
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school_tradition = Analytic and Continental Philosophy
main_interests = Nietzche, French philosophy, Political philosophy
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Paul Patton is a Professor of philosophy in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he has been since 2002.

Patton received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Sydney, and, in 1979, received a Doctorat D'Universite from Paris VIII, (Vincennes). Before he took up his professorship at University of New South Wales, Patton lectured at the Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, and the University of Sydney. Patton is a member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

Patton has published widely on aspects of 20th Century French philosophy. Including focus on the works of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault. In 2007 he is editing Volume 7 (Post-Postructuralism) of "The History of Continental Philosophy", which will be published by Acumen in 2008.

Between 2000 and 2006, Patton appeared in a number of ABC radio broadcasts, including 'The Descent of Man,' [http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/voices.htm] on ABC Radio National's Science Show in 2000, 'Deleuze and Democracy' in 2005, [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2005/1398272.htm] and 'Where philosophy gets done' in 2006, [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2006/1782956.htm] both on the show 'The Philosopher's Zone'.

In 1994 and 1997 Patton was a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, at Australian National University. In 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow of the Scots Philosophical Society, at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

elected Works

* (1996) "Deleuze: A Critical Reader". Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
* (2000) "Deleuze and the Political". Routledge.
* (2000) "Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples". Co-editor with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* (2001) "Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction Engaged – The Sydney Seminars". Co-editor with Terry Smith. Power Publications.
* (2003) 'Foucault'. In David Boucher and Paul Kelly (eds.) "Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present". Oxford: Oxford University Press: 516-35.
* (2003) "Between Deleuze and Derrida". Co-editor with John Protevi. Continuum.
* (2005) 'Historic Injustice and the Possibility of Supersession', "Journal of Intercultural Studies", 26 (3): 255-266.
* (2005) 'Deleuze and Democracy', "Contemporary Political Theory", 4 (4).
* (2006) 'After the Linguistic Turn: Poststructuralist and Pragmatist Political Theory'. In John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips, (eds.), "Oxford Handbook of Political Theory". Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

* [http://aap.org.au/expert/patton.html Australasian Association of Philosophy Expert Pages: Paul Patton. (Accessed 28 Oct 2007).]
* [http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/staff.php?first=Paul&last=Patton Paul Patton's home page at UNSW.(Accessed 28 Oct 2007).]
* [http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/profile?person=PattonPaul Philosophy Compass, Paul Patton page. (Accessed 28 Oct 2007).]