Professor David Owen
BA PhD
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Position: Professor of Social & Political Philosophy and Deputy Director, Centre for Philosophy and Value
Telephone: (023) 8059 4743
Email: dowen@soton.ac.uk
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Biography
Academic Qualifications
1989 PhD Durham University
1985 BA Durham University
Research interests
Politics: Problems of Political Community; Contemporary Democratic Theory; Ethics & Politics of Migration,; Theories of Power and Freedom.
Philosophy: Post-Kantian Moral and Political Philosophy; Nietzsche; Wittgenstein; Foucault
Research Supervision
I am happy to supervise students in the areas of contemporary European and Anglo-American social and political philosophy as well as on topics such as asylum seekers and refugees, immigration, political membership and multiculturalism.
Teaching activities
Citizenship and Multiculturalism & The Ethics and Politics of Migration.
Work in progress
Nietzsche's Contest: Freedom, Perfectionism and Realism in Political Theory, a contracted book with Rowman and Littlefield
Migration and Political Theory, a book contracted to Routledge
Roles
PGR Coordinator
Selected publications
| Books | |
|---|---|
| David Owen 2007 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. Acumen Press., (ISBN: 978-1-84465-104-7) | |
| Owen, D. 1995 Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity: A Critique of Liberal Reason. London, Sage. | |
| Owen, D. 1994 Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason. London, Routledge. | |
| Edited books and volumes | |
|---|---|
| Anthony Simon Laden & David Owen (eds) 2007 Multicultiralism Multiculturalism and Political Theory. Cambridge University Press., (ISBN: 978-0-521-67090-6) | |
| Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds) 2007 Recognition and Power. Cambridge University Press. | |
| David Owen & Tracy Strong (eds) 2004 Max Weber's Vocation Essays Max Weber's Vocation Essays. Hackett., (ISBN: 0-87220-665-3) | |
| Scott Brewster, John Joughin, David Owen and Richard Walker (eds) 2000 Inhuman Reflections. Manchester University Press., (ISBN: 0-7190-5337-4) | |
| Samanthan Ashenden & David Owen (eds) 1999 Foucault contra Habermas. Sage. | |
| David Owen (ed.) 1997 Sociology after Postmodernism. Sage. | |
| Chapters in books | |
|---|---|
| David Owen to be published | |
| David Owen 2010 Resident Non-citizens, Non-resident citizens and voting rights. In P Cole et al (eds), Citizenship Acquisition and National Belonging (pp. 52-73). Palgrave. | |
| David Owen 2010 Responsibilities of Justice. In P Niesen (ed.), Gerechtigkeit, Demokratie, Inklusion. Motive aus dem Werk von Iris Young. Nomos., Forthcoming | |
| David Owen 2010 Nietzsche and analytic philosophy. In K Gemes and J Richardson (eds), Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche. Oxford: OUP., Forthcoming | |
| David Owen 2010 Transpolitical Citizenship. In G Stoker et al (eds), Prospects of Citizenship. Bloomsbury Academic., Forthcoming | |
| David Owen 2010 Dilemmas of Inclusion. In K Nash (ed.), Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. Polity Press., Forthcoming | |
| David Owen 2009 The Expressive Agon: On Political Agency in a Constitutional Democratic Polity. In A Schaap (ed.), Law and Agonistic Politics (Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society) (pp. 71-86). Ashgate. | |
| David Owen 2009 Autonomy, Self-respect and Self-love: Nietzsche on ethical agency. In K Gemes and S May (eds), Nietzsche, Selfhood and Agency. Oxford: OUP. | |
| David Owen 2008 Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy. In H Siemens and Roodt (eds), Nietzsche, Power and Politics. De Guyter. | |
| Owen, D. 2007 Self-government & democracy as reflexive co-operation: On Honneth's social and political ideal. In Bert Van den Brink & David Owen (eds), Recognition and Power. Cambridge University Press. | |
| Owen, D. and Tully, J. 2007 Recognition & Redistribution. In Anthony Simon Laden and David Owen (eds), Mulitculturalism (pp. pp.265-91). Cambridge University Press., (ISBN: 978-0-521-67090-6) | |
| Owen, D. 2006 Perfectionism, Parrhesia and Care of the Self: Cavell and Foucault on Ethics and Politics. In Andrew Norris (ed.), The Claim to Community: Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy (pp. 128-55). Stanford University Press., (ISBN: 978-0-8047-5132-2) | |
| Owen, D. 2003 Genealogy as perspicuous representation. In Heyes, C. (eds), The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy. Cornell University Press. | |
| Owen, D. 2003 Democracy. In Bellamy, R. & Mason,A. (eds), Political Concepts. Manchester University Press. | |
| Owen, D. 2001 The Avoidance of Cruelty: Joshing Rorty on Liberal Irony. In Festenstein, M., & Thompson, S. (eds), Rorty, Postmodernism and Political Theory. Oxford, Polity Press. | |
| Owen, D. 2001 Processual Perfectionism & Democracy-to-Come. In Moufee, C (eds), The Legacy of Wittgenstein. 2001. | |
| D. Owen 2000 Postmodern Political Sociology. In K. Nash & A. Scott (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. | |
| D. Owen 1999 Orientation and Enlightenment. In S. Ashenden & D. Owen (eds), Foucault contra Habermas (pp. 21-44). London: Sage. | |
| Owen, D. 1999 The Inhuman, The All-Too-Human and the Overhuman. In Joughin, J. et al (eds), Inhuman Futures. Manchester. | |
| Owen, D. & Ridley, A 1999 Dramatis Personae: Nietzsche as Cultural Physician. In Schrift, A. (eds), Nietzsche and the Dramas of Culture. University of California press. | |
| D. Owen 1998 Nietzsche, Enlightenment and the Problem of Noble Ethics. In J. Lippitt (ed.), Nietzsche and the Future of the Human. London: MacMillan. | |
| Articles in journals | |
|---|---|
| David Owen to be published National Responsibility, Global Justice and Transnational Power’. Review of International Studies, Forthcoming | |
| David Owen to be published Reification, ideology and Power: Expression and agency in Honneth’s theory of recognition. Journal of Power, Forthcoming | |
| David Owen 2008 Pluralism and the Pathos of Distance (Or: How to Relax with Style): Connolly, Agonistic Respect and the Limits of Political Theory. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10 (2), 210-26. | |
| David Owen 2008 Nietzsche’s Genealogy Revisited. Journal of Nietzsche Studies (Special Issue on Contemporary Research in Nietzsche Studies), 35/36, 141-154. | |
| David Owen 2005 On Failing to be Agents: Freedom, Servitude and the Concept of the 'Weak' in Nietzsche's Parctical Philosophy. Philosophical Topics, 33 (2) | |
| Owen, D. 2005 On Genealogy and Political Theory. Political Theory, 33(1), 110-120., Review Article | |
| Owen, D. 2003 Culture, Equality and Polemic. Economy and Society, 32(3), 325-340., Review Article | |
| Owen, D. 2003 The Contest of Enlightenment: An essay on Kant and Nietzsche. Journal of Nietzsche, 26 | |
| Owen, D. 2003 Nietzsche, Re-Evaluation and the Turn to Genealogy. European Journal of Philosophy, 11(3), 249-272. | |
| Owen, D., Ridley, A 2003 On fate. International Studies in Philospohy, XXXV/3 | |
| Owen, D. 2002 Criticism and Captivity. European Journal of Philosophy, Vol 10, No. 2 | |
| Owen, D. 2002 Equality, democracy and self-respect: Nietzsche's agonic perfectionism. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 24 | |
| Owen, D. 2002 Re-orienting International Relations: On pragmatism, pluralism and practical reasoning. Millennium, 31, 653-673. | |
| Owen, D., Johansson, T. 2002 Interpretation, Verstandlichkeit and die Grenzen einer Phanomenologie der Moral. Deutsche Zeitung Fur Philosophie, 50, 567-580. | |
| Owen, D 2001 Wittgenstein and genealogy. SATS: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, Vol 2, No.2 | |
| Owen, D., Bentley, R. 2001 Ethical Loyalties, Civic virtue and the circumstances of politics. Philosophical Explorations, Vol IV, No.3, 223-39. | |
| Owen, D. 2000 Is there a doctrine of will to power. International Studies in Philosophy, XXXII/3 | |
| Owen, D. 2000 Of Overgrown children and last men: Nietzsche's critique and Weber's cultural science. Nietzsche-studien, Vol 29 | |
| D. Owen 1999 Political philosophy in a post-imperial voice. Economy and Society, 28 (4), 520-549. | |
| D. Owen 1999 Cultural diversity and the conversation of justice. Political Theory, 27 (5), 579-596. | |
| D. Owen 1997 Foucault, Habermas and the claims of reason. History of the Human Sciences, 9 (2), 119-138., (review article) | |
| Owen, D 1995 Genealogy as exemplary critique. Economy and Society, 24(4) | |
| Owen, D. 1995 Imagining America: politics and time in three forms of popular film. Film and Philosophy, 1(1) | |
| Owen, D. 1994 Agonal Thought: Reading Nietzsche as a Political Thinker. Angelaki | |
| Owen, D. August 1992 The Judgement of Nietzsche: Philosophy, Politics, Modernity. History of the Human Sciences, 121-135., Review Article | |
| Owen, D. 1991 Autonomy and "inner distance": a trace of Nietzsche in Weber. History of the Human Sciences, 4(1) | |
| Owen, D. 1991 Foucault, Psychiatry and the spectre of dangerousness. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 2(3) | |
| Encyclopaedia entries | |
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| David Owen March 2010 Genealogy SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Sage., Forthcoming | |
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