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Personal profile
Biography
Michael Ure is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social Sciences. In 2005 he completed his PhD at The Ashworth Centre for Social Theory (University of Melbourne). From 2007 to 2010 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland.
From 2014-2019 he was the lead investigator of the ARC Discovery grant 'Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life' (2014-2019) and he is currently the editor of the Bloomsbury series 'Re-inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life (www.bloomsbury.com/au/series/re-inventing-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life/).
He is also the lead investigator of a 2019-2020 Monash Interdisciplinary Research support grant, 'Anger: From Anti-Social to Pro-Social Behaviour' (with Alan Dorin, Nicholas Faulkner, and Julian Garcia).
Michael publishes widely in European philosophy and political theory. His publications include,
Nietzsche's Therapy, Lexington, 2008
The Politics of Compassion, Routledge, 2014 (ed. with Professor Mervyn Frost)
Nietzsche's The Gay Science, Cambridge University Press, 2019
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nietzsches-the-gay-science/41FC758824A70D3533DB8669044F8225
Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions, Bloomsbury Academic, In press (with Associate Professor Matthew Sharpe).
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-9781350102132/
Supervision interests
Current Supervisions
1. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'Nietzsche: Art versus Truth'
Candidate: Robert Moseley
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)
2. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-ITTB Mumbai): 'The Figure of the Vigilante Woman'
Candidate: Ananya Dasgupta
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Siby K. George (Main, ITTB)
3. Doctorate by Research: 'Exploring the application of Nietzsche's ideas about value, agency and culture in moral philosophy'
Candidate: Andre Okawara
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Toby Handfield (Associate)
Completed Supervisions
1. Doctorate by Research: 'Nietzsche’s Agonistic Ethics of Friendship' (2020)
Candidate: Neil Durrant
Supervisors: Michael Ure (Main) & Paul Muldoon (Associate)
2. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'Foucault and the Politics of Self-Government' (2019)
Candidate: Irene Dal Poz
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Miguel Beistegui (Main, Warwick)
3. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'On the Politics of Life: Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem On Life And Norms' (2019)
Dr. Federico Testa
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Miguel Beistegui Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)
4. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'The Affirmation of Eros: Passion and Eternity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science' (2018)
Dr. Thomas Ryan
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)
5. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments Self-Cultivation in Practical Philosophy' (2018)
Dr. Matthew Dennis
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)
6. Masters by Research: 'Myth of the Mythless: Why the Left and Politics Still Need Mythology' (2017)
Liyan Gao
Supervisors: Dr. Paul Muldoon (Main) & Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)
7. Doctorate by Research: 'After the apology: responsive narratives and the 2008 Apology to Australia's Stolen Generations' (2016)
Kate Maher
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) & Associate Professor Mark Davis (Associate)
8. Masters by Research: 'Conspiracy Narratives in Contemporary Society' (2015)
Nicholas Ulbrick
Supervisors: Dr. Luke Howie (Main) & Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)
9. Doctorate by Research: 'The psychology of cosmopolitan behaviour: emotions, norms and social identification' (2014)
Dr. Nicholas Faulkner
Supervisors: Professor James Walter (Main) & Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)
10. Doctorate by Research: 'Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy' (University of Queensland, 2010)
Dr. Mark Chou
Supervisors: Professor Roland Bleiker (Main) & Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)
Honours Supervisions
2015: Rufus Davis Award - Best Politics Honours Thesis:
'The Politics of Nihilism: Political Existentialism and Political Humanism in Nietzsche and Camus'
Robert Moseley
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Ure
2013: Rufus Davis Award - Best Politics Honours Thesis:
'Reclaiming Conflict in the Political'
Octavia Bryant
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Ure
2012 Rufus Davis Award - Best Politics Honours Thesis:
'Freedom in Foucault: The ethics of aesthetics'
Kylie Dolan
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Ure
Monash teaching commitment
Monash Teaching Commitments
ATS 3719 Modern Political Thought
ATS 4328 Grand Theories of Politics and International Relations
ATS 2276/3276 Modern Italian Political Thought (Arts Semester in Prato Program)
Research area keywords
- Political Theory
- History of Philosophy
- Nietzsche Studies
- Political Emotions
- Classical Political Philosophy
- Compassion
- Resentment
- Populism
- Foucault
- Philosophy as a way of life
- Hadot
Network
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life
Ure, M., Sharpe, M. & Ansell-Pearson, K.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/06/14 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
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Research output
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Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality
Ure, M., 2020, Brill's Companion to Camus: Camus Among the Philosophers. Matthew, S., Maciej, K. & Peter, F. (eds.). Leiden The Netherlands: Brill, p. 136-157 22 p. (Brill's Companion to Philosophy: Contemporary Philosophy ; vol. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Eternal Recurrence: Epicurean Oblivion, Stoic Consolation, Nietzschean Cultivation
Ure, M. & Ryan, T., 2020, Nietzsche and Epicurus : Nature, Health and Ethics. Johnson, R. & Acharya, V. (eds.). London Uk: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 81-95 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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The secret courts of citizens’ hearts: a reply to munch-jurisic
Ure, M., 2020, In : Global Discourse. 10, 2, p. 299-302 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Nietzsche's 'The Gay Science': An Introduction
Ure, M. V., 2019, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 273 p. (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Arendt's Apology
Ure, M. V., 2018, In : Philosophy Today. 62, 2, p. 419-446 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
- 5 Peer review responsibility
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Global Discourse (Journal)
Michael Ure (Peer reviewer)
1 Sep 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Michael Ure (Peer reviewer)
2018 → 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Michael Ure (Peer reviewer)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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American Political Science Review (Journal)
Michael Ure (Peer reviewer)
1 Aug 2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Journal of Nietzsche Studies (Journal)
Michael Ure (Peer reviewer)
2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Press / Media
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Review: Michael Ure, The Gay Science (Cambridge University Press 2019)
1/03/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Review
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Review: Foucault and Nietzsche: Sisyphus and Dionysus
1/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Review