ProfessorMiguel Vatter

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, China and the UK. 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. Among his 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).