Paul Patton is a Professor of philosophy

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 in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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, Sydney

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, Australia

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, where he has been since 2002.

Patton received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

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, and, in 1979, received a Doctorat D'Universite from Paris VIII, (Vincennes

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). Before he took up his professorship at University of New South Wales, Patton lectured at the Australian National University

Australian National University

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, in Canberra

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, Australia, and the University of Sydney. Patton is a member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy

Australasian Association of Philosophy

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Patton has published widely on aspects of 20th Century French philosophy

French philosophy

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. Including focus on the works of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault

Michel Foucault

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. In 2007 he is editing Volume 7 (Post-Postructuralism) of The History of Continental Philosophy, which will be published by Acumen in 2008.

Between 2000 and 2006, Patton appeared in a number of ABC radio broadcasts, including 'The Descent of Man,'http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/voices.htm on ABC Radio National's Science Show in 2000, 'Deleuze and Democracy' in 2005,http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2005/1398272.htm and 'Where philosophy gets done' in 2006,http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2006/1782956.htm both on the show 'The Philosopher's Zone'.

In 1994 and 1997 Patton was a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, at Australian National University. In 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow of the Scots Philosophical Society, at the University of Dundee

University of Dundee

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 in Scotland

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Selected works

• (1996) Deleuze: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
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• (2000) Deleuze and the Political. Routledge
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• (2000) Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Co-editor with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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• (2001) Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction Engaged – The Sydney Seminars. Co-editor with Terry Smith. Power Publications.
• (2003) 'Foucault'. In David Boucher and Paul Kelly (eds.) Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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• (2003) Between Deleuze and Derrida. Co-editor with John Protevi. Continuum.
• (2005) 'Historic Injustice and the Possibility of Supersession', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26 (3): 255-266.
• (2005) 'Deleuze and Democracy', Contemporary Political Theory, 4 (4).
• (2006) 'After the Linguistic Turn: Poststructuralist and Pragmatist Political Theory'. In John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (2010) Deleuze and the Postcolonial. Co-editor with Simone Bignall. Edinburgh University Press.
• (2010) Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics. Stanford University Press.