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Miguel Vatter

Professor in Political Science

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Professor in Political Science
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 46682 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Miguel Vatter has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social
Research, and has held academic positions in political science and philosophy
departments in the United States and in Chile, as well as visiting
professorships in Germany and China. Before coming to Deakin he was Professor
of Politics at Flinders and UNSW. He works in the areas of political and legal
theory, contemporary continental philosophy, and intellectual history.

His current areas of research and publication are Machiavelli, Kant,
republicanism, neoliberalism, biopolitics, political theology and planetary
health. His most recent books are The Republic of the Living. Biopolitics and
the Critique of Civil Society (Fordham University Press, 2014), Divine
Democracy. Political Theology after Carl Schmitt (Oxford University Press,
2020) and Living Law. Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah
Arendt (Oxford University Press, 2021).

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Professor in Political Science
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    New School University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Political science
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology
  • Religious studies

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation