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Biography
As a PhD German Studies candidate at Durham University, my doctoral work concerns the Concept of Totality: Visions of the Whole in the Work of Fredric Jameson (2016--). I read English Literature and History at the University of Leicester (2012-2015). I worked with Ian Harris on an dissertation on Locke and the State of Nature which consolidated my interests in philosophy of history and literature. After my bachelor, I undertook a Masters of Letters in Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews (2015-2016) working with Caroline Humfress on essays concerning Derrida, Badiou's and Nietzsche's Saint Paul, and a masters thesis on Foucault in the College de France lectures.
PhD Thesis (2016--) -- The Concept of Totality: Visions of the Whole in the Work of Fredric Jameson
Teaching Assistant (2019-2020) in European Philosophy, Kantian and Post-Kantian Philosophy,
(Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Lacan, Zizek)
Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy Department, (Analytic philosophy and method, Logic,Continental Philosophy, Feminist and Post-colonial philosophy) University of Durham
Modern Philosophy I, Descartes on substance, Locke on perception, Leibniz on metaphysics and free will, Berkeley’s idealism, Spinoza's metaphysics, Hume on causation and religion, Women and early modern philosophy
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Research interests
- Intellectual History, History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Enlightenment Studies, Poststructuralism
Publications
Book review
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Horst Friedrich, Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik, Ein marxistischer Kommentar, Zweiter Teil, Dietz Berlin, 2006 (1/3). Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory,
- Coopey, R. J. (in press). Geoffrey Bennington: Kant on the Frontier: Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth
- Antenhofer, C. (in press). Fetisch als heuristische Kategorie, Geschichte, Rezeption, Interpretation. Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory,
Chapter in book
Conference Paper
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. An Absolute of Literature as Negative Theology: The Literary Absolute (1988) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Method.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Impotence of Nature's Disease: Health and Wellbeing in German Idealism.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Obelisks: Benjamin's and Derrida's Messianism in the Utopianism of Scripture and its foundation in the Talmud.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Blessedness: Lenin and the Event of Empirico-Criticism as Praxis.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Theodicy of Imperfections: Kant’s Natural, Unnatural and Supernatural Critique of Leibniz’s Unitary mode of Logical Forces.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Bachelard and the Science of Objectivity in the Life Sciences: An Epistemology of the Absolute as Hegelian Philosophy of Nature.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Hammerings of Heavens: Totality, The Spirituality of the Whole and Religiosity of the Sublime in German Idealism and Jena Romanticism (1780-1840).
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Hospitalities: A Critique of Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject towards a nihilistic ethics of resistance.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Perergons: The Metanormative Aesthetics of Continental Metaphilosophy, A Phenomenology of Emotions.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Minor Idealisms: The minoritarian case of H. H. Joachim (1868-1938) and Spinoza's Ethics, a home for the Analytic revolution.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Totality and the Living Philosophic Tradition in German Idealism and Jena Romanticism (1780-1840).
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. An Absolute of Literature as Event: The Literary Absolute (1988) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Literature .
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Idea of Form: Lukács and the Theory of the Novel: A Radical Foundation to Theories of Form and towards a Revolutionary Philosophy of Literature.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Modernity of Technology: Benjamin's Arcades and Baudelaire's Paris, Between the Constellation and the Auratic.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Teleology and the History of Religion in Foucault.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Ethics of Evil: Teleology and Foucault.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Theodicy of Theogony: The Decadence of Enlightenment Value-Meanings, Humanism of the Death Camps.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Vistas: Foucault and the Birth of the Medical Gaze, A Critique of Western Metaphysics and a comparison to Chinese traditions of Medicine.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Ethics of Evil: Teleology and Foucault's War on the Self.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Parsimonies: Deconstructions of Feminine Difference and its relation towards a Feminist Method.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Macintyre's Marxism and Critical Theory: An inter-disciplinary lesson for future praxis.
- Coopey, R. J. (in press). The Hammerings of Heavens: Totality, The Spirituality of the Whole and Religiosity of the Sublime in German Romanticism.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Perergons: The Normative Aesthetics of Continental Metaphilosophy.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Avowals: Arendt's Heideggereanism and its deconstruction of authoritarianism.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Critique or Violence: Arendt's critique of totalitarianism and Benjamin's violence of the constellation, a Messianism.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Foucault and the Art of the Self -- Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Totality and the Biology of the Whole: The Biology of the Ape to Man in Marx and Hegel.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Hammerings of Heavens: The Inception and Experience of Language in German Idealism (1780-1840).
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Empire of the Earth; An Intellectual History of the Concept of Empire, From Akkad to Neoliberalism.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Behemoth: Benjamin's Critique of Violence.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Telluric, An Exposition of Walter Benjamin's contributions to the contemporary understanding of History itself through the philosophical analysis of historical research.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Citadels: The Frankfurt School and its relevance to Undemocratic Regimes.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Holograms: A Critique of Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject towards a nihilistic ethics of resistance.
- Coopey, R. J. (in press). Inaesthetics: Hegel's Form of Dialectic in the Concept of Totality and its expression in the Absolute, and Marx's Totality as Labour, Capitalism and the Modes of Production.
- The Limits and Boundaries of Historical Knowledge, Discourse and Representation; The Cambridge School; Authorial Intention, Contextualisation and Biographical notes in contrast to the Foucauldian Archaeology.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Vigils of Lights: The Question of Europe's Universalism and its Philosophical Timelessness as Undecidability of the Human Subject; Jacques Derrida's Messianism and the Crisis of European Identity as the Debt of Capital and the Time of Liberal Democracy.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy – Foucault and the Space and Time of Subjectivity in the Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984).
- Jameson.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). The Judgement of Reason: The Aesthetics of Art as the Play and Essence of the Human Being in Immanuel Kant as the relation between Freedom and Nature (1724-1804).
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Gigantomachia: Totality and the Surveillance of the Global: Visions of the Whole as Modernity in the Work of Fredric Jameson.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Parsimonies: Feminine Difference and its Non-Identity towards Resistance and Emancipation in Cixous, Butler, Kristeva and Irigaray.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Gigantomachia: The Delay of Time in Jokes in Kant's and Bergson's Metaphysics of Time.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Pataphilosophy: Phenomenology and Physics as handmaidens, The Promise of a New Science in Deleuze’s History of Philosophy and Hegel’s Science of Logic.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Derrida's influence on Jean-Luc Nancy: The Literary Absolute (1988) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Method as Jena Romanticism.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy – Foucault and the Ethics of the Self.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Alcuin and Logic: The Task of True Philosophical Thinking in the Carolingian Renaissance in Alcuin's Prologue.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Halos, A Deconstruction of the Critiques of International Political Economy and its Discontents.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Predictive Brain and Technics in the Thought of Malabou, Stiegler and Simondon.
- Coopey, R. J. (in press). History of Mathematical Objects: Aristotle's and Husserl's conception of matter, form and mind and its relation to Number.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Perergons: The Normative Aesthetics of Continental Metaphilosophy.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy – Foucault and the Space and Time of Subjectivity in the Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984).
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. The Origins of Legal Positivism as Natural Law: A Philosophical Account of the Norm of Law and its Exception in Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Flows and Plateaus: Henri Bergson's Philosophy of Life and Deleuze's Vitalism, A humanization of the Science of Life.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Citadels: The Frankfurt School and its relevance to Undemocratic Regimes.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Minor Idealisms: The minoritarian case of H. H. Joachim (1868-1938) and Spinoza's Ethics, a home for the Analytic revolution.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Pataphilosophy: Phenomenology and Physics as handmaidens, The Promise of a New Science in Deleuze's History of Philosophy and Hegel's Science of Logic.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Thorns & Thistles: Recoils of the Subject and its Plateaus of Sensations, A Post-Deleuzian Critique.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Hourglass Dawns: The Becoming of Time as Space, Contemporary Post-Phenomenological Philosophy and its nemesis of Time in the Work of Agamben, Nancy and Jameson.
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Artifice: Francisco Suárez and Heidegger's Modernity of Metaphysics, A Baroque contribution to the downfall of Scholastic thought.
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Journal Article
- Demon-Mania of Witches
- Jack, C. R. (in press). Citadels: Crisis of Representation as Authoritarian, The Ruling Class in Adorno and Rosanvallon. Philosophy and Public Affairs,
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). Schmitt, Agamben, and Ongoing Founding Events, Jeffrey Bussolini’s “Ongoing Founding Events in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben” from Telos 157 (Winter 2011)
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). On Hegel’s Critique of the Noumenal in Kant
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Juxtaposing the Philosophical Projects of Schmitt and Marcuse, Joseph Diaz’s “Schmitt and Marcuse: Friends, Force, and Quality” from Telos 165 (Winter 2013)
- Squires, C., & Coopey, J. The Anarchic Life Drive: Freud, Lacan and Stiegler. Manuscript submitted for publication
- Coopey, R. J. (in press). Obelisks: Scholem's Messianism in the Utopianism of Scripture. Judaica petropolitana,
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). On Marcuse, Phenomenology, and Marxism
- Coopey, J. (in press). The Ethics of Resistance: Sovereignty and Territoriality in Foucault's College de France lectures (1970-1984), Narrating Nation, Sovereignty and Territory. Durham, England
- Coopey, J. R. (2018). Hourglass dawns: the becoming of time as space – a note on the work of Agamben, Nancy and Jameson. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 11(3), 337-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696x.2018.1505814
Other (Digital/Visual Media)
Presentation
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (0000, December). The Power-Play of Seyn (Be-ing) and Esti gar einai (For Being Is Taking Place): A Re-assessment of Heidegger's misreading of Plato's Cosmology and the Power of Metaphysics. Paper presented at AMPAL 2019 'Power Play in the Ancient World' Thursday 13th - Friday 14th June 2019, University of Leeds, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Gigantisms: Heidegger's Black Notebooks and the Meaning of Being to the History of Being as Heimatland and the Writing style of the Denktagebuch. Paper presented at On the History of Being – after the Black Notebooks Manchester, UK, from Friday, the 31st of May to Sunday, the 2nd of June, 2019, British Society of Phenomenology, University of Manchester, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, July). The Enlightenment Origins of Knowledge, A Genealogy of Political Knowledge from the East. Paper presented at ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment 15-19 July 2019, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Gigantomachia: Totality and Truth: Visions of the Whole as Truth in the Work of Fredric Jameson. Paper presented at Association of Philosophy and Literature with Theory, Culture & Society, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). The Concept of Totality: Visions of the Whole in the Works of Fredric Jameson. Paper presented at Borders and Boundaries: Transgression in History and the Present Age Research Workshop, Durham University, 30 November—2 December 2018, Durham University, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). The Sanctuary of the Experience of Seyn (Be-ing) and Esti gar einai (For Being Is Taking Place): A Re-assessment of Heidegger's misreading of Plato's Cosmology and the Greek Temple. Paper presented at Sanctuaries and Experience: Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London 8th–10th April 2019, University of London, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Behemoth: Henri Bergson and the Process of Creative Evolution, Alfred Whitehead and Process Philosophy in relation to Developmental bias, Plasticity, Niche Construction and Extra-Genetic Inheritance. Paper presented at Evolution Evolving, Process, Mechanism and Theory, University of Cambridge, 1-4 April 2019
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Foucault and Ancient Philosophy of Law. Paper presented at Société Internationale Fernand de Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité, University of Edinburgh from 2 – 7 September 2019
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2020, December). The Figure of Romanticism in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida. Paper presented at 7th Derrida Today Conference From border to border, Derrida, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2016, December). The Ethics of Resistance: Sovereignty and Territoriality in Foucault's College de France lectures (1970-1984). Paper presented at Narrating Nation, Sovereignty and Territory, Durham, England