Dr. Mathew Abbott
Senior Lecturer, Humanities
Grounded in modern European philosophy, Dr Mathew Abbott’s research encompasses political thought, moral philosophy and aesthetics. Dr Abbott’s work also contributes to film studies, art theory and literary theory. Mathew’s current research focusses on modernism, naturalism, ecology, and self-consciousness.
Mathew has published widely, including in top-ranked international journals. He has placed two monographs with Edinburgh University Press: The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology (2014) and Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy (2016). Routledge published his collection Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality (2018). His research has been translated into Italian and Persian.
Mathew has spoken at academic events in Oxford, London, Essex, Lancaster, New York City, Montreal, Amsterdam, Münster, Karlsruhe, Valletta, Porto, Lucca, Santiago, and Auckland. In 2018 he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leipzig’s Research School of Analytic German Idealism.
Nature, significance, and the human perspective: Refusing the choice between scientism and posthumanism
Animality, self-consciousness, and the human form of life a hegelian account
This article develops a Hegelian account of self-consciousness by grounding it in being animal....
Grey gardens and the problem of objectivity: Notes on the ethics of observational documentary
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On Film in Reality: Cavellian Reflections on Skepticism, Belief, and Documentary
Recognizing Human Action
Monroe Beardsley once remarked in passing—as though the point he had made were obvious and not in...
Grey Gardens and the Problem of Objectivity
This article turns to the Maysles brothers' 1975 film Grey Gardens to problematize the...
lyric Poetry
This chapter characterises an aspect of the relationship between philosophy and lyric poetry by...
Michael Fried and Philosophy
Michael Fried and Philosophy Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality
This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars...
Modernism and the discovery of finitude
Clement Greenberg's way of resolving the tension between what he took to be the necessary...
Martin Heidegger
It would be hard to overstate the importance of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy for Giorgio...
No life is bare, the ordinary is exceptional: Giorgio Agamben and the question of political ontology
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The creature before the law
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The Look of Silence and the Problem of Monstrosity
In Beyond Moral Judgment, Alice Crary defends a version of moral objectivism which turns on the...
Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy
Glory, Spectacle, and Inoperativity: Agamben's Praxis of Theoria
The Problem of Wild Minds: Knowing Animals in Grizzly Man and Ming of Harlem
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The figure of this world: Agamben and the question of political ontology
What if we’ve been wrong when reading Agamben? The work of the Italian Continental philosopher...
Kiarostami's Picture Theory: Cinematic Skepticism in The Wind Will Carry Us
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New Quarrels: Innovative Poetry & The Philosophical Horizon
The Appearance of Appearance: Absolute Truth in Abbs Kiarostami's ABC Africa
In Ten on Ten, a 2004 documentary featuring ten short scenes in which Abbas Kiarostami speaks in...
No Life is Bare, the Ordinary is Exceptional: Giorgio Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology
In this article I develop a theory of political ontology, working to differentiate it from...
The Myth of the Earth: Heidegger, Poetry, Politics
On Not Loving Everyone: Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “L’amour en éclats [Shattered Love],”
The thinking of love, so ancient, so abundant and diverse in its forms and in its modulations,...
THE ANIMAL FOR WHICH ANIMALITY IS AN ISSUE nietzsche, agamben, and the anthropological machine
There is congruence between Nietzsche’s philosophy of life and the biopolitical philosophy of...
THE ANIMAL FOR WHICH ANIMALITY IS AN ISSUE nietzsche, agamben, and the anthropological machine
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The poetic experience of the world
In this article I develop Heidegger's phenomenology of poetry, showing that it may provide...