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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
- 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,
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018). Horst Friedrich, Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik, Ein marxistischer Kommentar, Zweiter Teil, Dietz Berlin, 2006 (1/3). Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory,
Chapter in book
Conference Paper
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Pataphilosophy: Phenomenology and Physics as handmaidens, The Promise of a New Science in Deleuze's History of Philosophy and Hegel's Science of Logic. Presented at Annual British Society for Phenomenology Conference, University of Kent, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Foucault and the Art of the Self -- Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy. Presented at Opera Fieri, Portugal
- Coopey, R. J. (2017, December). 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. Presented at 32nd International Hegel Congress Hegel’s Encyclopaedic System and its Legacy 32nd International Hegel Congress of the International Hegel-Society at the University of Tampere June 5–8, 2018, Tampere Finland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Blessedness: Lenin and the Event of Empirico-Criticism as Praxis. Presented at International Conference One Hundred Years That Shook the World: Failures, Legacies, and Futures of the Russian Revolution, St.Gallen, Switzerland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2016, December). Telluric, An Exposition of Walter Benjamin's contributions to the contemporary understanding of History itself through the philosophical analysis of historical research. Presented at Contemporary History Workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Thorns & Thistles: Recoils of the Subject and its Plateaus of Sensations, A Post-Deleuzian Critique. Presented at CAPPE Giving Life to Politics: The Work of Adriana Cavarero, Brighton, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Artifice: Francisco Suárez and Heidegger's Modernity of Metaphysics, A Baroque contribution to the downfall of Scholastic thought. Presented at 'What is the Matter of/with Medieval Philosophy?', International Medieval Congress, Leeds 1-4 July 2019, University of Leeds
- Jameson. Presented at Sixteenth Annual Conference. Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow, 7th 10th November 2019 SOAS, Russell Square, Central London
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Totality and the Biology of the Whole: The Biology of the Ape to Man in Marx and Hegel. Presented at Biological Thought and the German Left, Bloch Centre for German Thought, London, 17 May 2019, University of London, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Idea of Form: Lukács and the Theory of the Novel: A Radical Foundation to Theories of Form and towards a Revolutionary Philosophy of Literature. Presented at The Legacy of Georg Lukács An International Conference, 27–29 April, 2017, Budapest, Hungary
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). The Hammerings of Heavens: The Inception and Experience of Language in German Idealism (1780-1840). Presented at ‘Languages in Society Conference', Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Durham, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Citadels: The Frankfurt School and its relevance to Undemocratic Regimes. Presented at Annual Scottish Graduate Classics Conference (held under the auspices of StAGE) Power and the People in Undemocratic Regimes University of Glasgow, 3-4 May 2018, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). The Hammerings of Heavens: Totality, The Spirituality of the Whole and Religiosity of the Sublime in German Idealism and Jena Romanticism (1780-1840). Presented at 63rd National PG Colloquium in German Studies (London, 12-13 April 2018), University of London, Senate House, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). 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. Presented at Materiality of Time: Phenomenology and its Place in Archaeology, Cardiff, Wales
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Perergons: The Normative Aesthetics of Continental Metaphilosophy. Presented at Call for abstracts - The Future of Normativity - Kent - June 2018, University of Kent, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Macintyre's Marxism and Critical Theory: An inter-disciplinary lesson for future praxis. Presented at 2018 Annual Conference Learning from MacIntyre Durham University, UK Call for Papers, Durham, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Minor Idealisms: The minoritarian case of H. H. Joachim (1868-1938) and Spinoza's Ethics, a home for the Analytic revolution. Presented at Spinoza & British Idealism 8 & 9 June 2018, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). 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. Presented at The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (6th Edition), 11 – 12 December 2017, Florence, Italy
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Gigantomachia: Totality and the Surveillance of the Global: Visions of the Whole as Modernity in the Work of Fredric Jameson. Presented at Inaugural Interdisciplinary PGR Conference: Global Challenges, University of Durham, England
- Coopey, R. J. The Hammerings of Heavens: Totality, The Spirituality of the Whole and Religiosity of the Sublime in German Romanticism. Presented at CFP: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity, and Nonreligion conference CfP - King's College London - July 2018, King's College, London
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Pataphilosophy: Phenomenology and Physics as handmaidens, The Promise of a New Science in Deleuze’s History of Philosophy and Hegel’s Science of Logic. Presented at “Philosophy of Physics” (AGPhil) of the German Physical Society (DPG), “Reduction and Emergence in Physics”,, TU University of Berlin, Germany
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Behemoth: Benjamin's Critique of Violence. Presented at Deconstructing the Concept of Violence. Law and Power in Heidegger, Benjamin, Derrida and Foucault 18-19 May 2017 Spring School, University of Halle (Martin Luther Universität), Germany
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2020, December). Derrida's influence on Jean-Luc Nancy: The Literary Absolute (1988) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Method as Jena Romanticism. Presented at Derrida Today, Schuman Centre, at Aix- Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France, from June 10-13, 2020
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Bachelard and the Science of Objectivity in the Life Sciences: An Epistemology of the Absolute as Hegelian Philosophy of Nature. Presented at ESHS ESHS First Young Scholars Conference 2019 Transcultural Knowledge 10-12 Sep 2019 Paris (France), Paris Observatory
- 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). Presented at 'Time, Space and Culture' International Conference, 15-16 February 2020 St. Anne's College, University of Oxford
- 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. Presented at Cambridge Legal Theory Symposium will be held on 14 August 2018 at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). 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). Presented at ECPR, European Consortium for Political Research, General Conference, 2018, Hamburg, Germany
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. The Ethics of Evil: Teleology and Foucault. Presented at SEP-FEP 2018 - Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference, University of Essex, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Perergons: The Metanormative Aesthetics of Continental Metaphilosophy, A Phenomenology of Emotions. Presented at The Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE), Glasgow, Scotland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Predictive Brain and Technics in the Thought of Malabou, Stiegler and Simondon. Presented at CFA: X-SPECT’s 3rd Annual Workshop Wilding the Predictive Brain: Prediction, Culture and Context November 1st, 2019 @ University of Sussex, University of Sussex
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Perergons: The Normative Aesthetics of Continental Metaphilosophy. Presented at The Future of Normativity University Kent, UK Centre for Practical Normativity, University of Kent, 28th-30th June 2018
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Parsimonies: Feminine Difference and its Non-Identity towards Resistance and Emancipation in Cixous, Butler, Kristeva and Irigaray. Presented at 6th Annual Conference and General Meeting of SWIP-Ireland, 17-19 May, 2018 University College Dublin, Ireland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Impotence of Nature's Disease: Health and Wellbeing in German Idealism. Presented at Fourth Annual Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Early Career Researcher Conference, University of Durham, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). The Empire of the Earth; An Intellectual History of the Concept of Empire, From Akkad to Neoliberalism. Presented at The 2018 Telos Europe Conference: The Endurance of Empire, Ragusa, Sicily
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Flows and Plateaus: Henri Bergson's Philosophy of Life and Deleuze's Vitalism, A humanization of the Science of Life. Presented at Religion, Society, and the Science of Life, 2017 IRC-ISSR Conference, Oxford, 19-22 July, Oxford
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Totality and the Living Philosophic Tradition in German Idealism and Jena Romanticism (1780-1840). Presented at The Prometheus Trust - 13th Annual conference: 'Living philosophic traditions' June 29th - July 1st, 2018, Mancetter, Warwickshire, UK
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). The Modernity of Technology: Benjamin's Arcades and Baudelaire's Paris, Between the Constellation and the Auratic. Presented at Benjamin’s Baudelaire – Constellations of Modernity A Workshop for Early Career Researchers, Goldsmiths University of London, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Theodicy of Theogony: The Decadence of Enlightenment Value-Meanings, Humanism of the Death Camps. Presented at Workshop: Primo Levi and Jean Améry: Auschwitz and the Possibility of Enlightenment Secular Humanism., King's College, London
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Hospitalities: A Critique of Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject towards a nihilistic ethics of resistance. Presented at 2018 Ian Ramsey Centre Summer Conference Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Super-Naturalism Mathematical Institute and Egrove Park, Oxford, 6-7 July 2018, University of Oxford, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Holograms: A Critique of Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and Alain Badiou's Theory of the Subject towards a nihilistic ethics of resistance. Presented at Beyond Humanism Conference Rome 2017, Rome, Italy
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. Theodicy of Imperfections: Kant’s Natural, Unnatural and Supernatural Critique of Leibniz’s Unitary mode of Logical Forces. Presented at the BSECS 49th Annual Conference “Natural, Unnatural and Supernatural” of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Teleology and the History of Religion in Foucault. Presented at (British Sociological Association), Sociology of Religion Conference - Religion and Education (Strathclyde University, Glasgow) 2018, Glasgow, Scotland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy – Foucault and the Space and Time of Subjectivity in the Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984). Presented at Encounters: the coincidence of space, time, and subjectivity An interdisciplinary conference, 16th-18th September 2019 St John’s College, University of Cambridge
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. An Absolute of Literature as Event: The Literary Absolute (1988) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Literature . Presented at Literature and Event: Reformulations of the Literary in the 21st Century A one-day interdisciplinary conference Saturday 15th February 2020, University of Warwick, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Citadels: The Frankfurt School and its relevance to Undemocratic Regimes. Presented at 12th INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE OF ROME May 9-11, 2019, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago
- Coopey, R. J. (2018, December). History of Mathematical Objects: Aristotle's and Husserl's conception of matter, form and mind and its relation to Number. Presented at 12th London Ancient Science Conference 2018 12th-14th February, Institute of Classical Studies, UCL, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Gigantomachia: The Delay of Time in Jokes in Kant's and Bergson's Metaphysics of Time. Presented at BSA Synergy Conference How To Do Things With Jokes, University of Kent, Canterbury, 25-27 October 2019, University of Kent, Canterbury
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). The Ethics of Evil: Teleology and Foucault's War on the Self. Presented at Teleology - Conceptual Corpse or Plastic Concept? 2017 CRMEP Graduate Conference, London
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Avowals: Arendt's Heideggereanism and its deconstruction of authoritarianism. Presented at Arendt and Critical Theory Today 2nd Istanbul Critical Theory Conference – in Exile at the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg*, Oldenburg, Germany
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Vistas: Foucault and the Birth of the Medical Gaze, A Critique of Western Metaphysics and a comparison to Chinese traditions of Medicine. Presented at Biennial Meeting of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy, Basel, Switzerland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Body and Corporeality in Ancient Philosophy – Foucault and the Ethics of the Self. Presented at Fifth Annual Conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (30-31 May 2019 – University of Birmingham), University of Birmingham, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. An Absolute of Literature as Negative Theology: The Literary Absolute (1988) and Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Method. Presented at Thinking about Nothing: Negation, Philosophy and the Mystical The conference is jointed organised with The Association for Continental Philosophy, University of Oxford, 3rd-5th July 2020
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2016, December). Halos, A Deconstruction of the Critiques of International Political Economy and its Discontents. Presented at World (dis)order, St Andrews, Scotland
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2017, December). Obelisks: Benjamin's and Derrida's Messianism in the Utopianism of Scripture and its foundation in the Talmud. Presented at Jewish Thought in the Context of World Philosophy, St Petersburg, Russia
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Minor Idealisms: The minoritarian case of H. H. Joachim (1868-1938) and Spinoza's Ethics, a home for the Analytic revolution. Presented at 93rd Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Durham, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Critique or Violence: Arendt's critique of totalitarianism and Benjamin's violence of the constellation, a Messianism. Presented at Fifteenth Annual Historical Materialism conference which is being held 8th to 11th November 2018 at SOAS, University of London., SOAS, University of London, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018, December). Parsimonies: Deconstructions of Feminine Difference and its relation towards a Feminist Method. Presented at Challenging Dominant Discourse: Feminist Conversations across Political Science and Political Theory May 22, 2018, 9am-3pm, University of Exeter, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, England
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2019, December). Alcuin and Logic: The Task of True Philosophical Thinking in the Carolingian Renaissance in Alcuin's Prologue. Presented at BRITAIN'S EARLY PHILOSOPHERS (Durham, April 1-2, 2019), University of Durham
- 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. Presented at History Department Research Seminar, St Andrews, Scotland
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Journal Article
- Squires, C., & Coopey, J. The Anarchic Life Drive: Freud, Lacan and Stiegler. Manuscript submitted for publication
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (in press). On Hegel’s Critique of the Noumenal in Kant
- 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)
- Jack, C. R. (in press). Citadels: Crisis of Representation as Authoritarian, The Ruling Class in Adorno and Rosanvallon. Philosophy and Public Affairs,
- Demon-Mania of Witches
- 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)
- Coopey, R. J. (in press). Obelisks: Scholem's Messianism in the Utopianism of Scripture. Judaica petropolitana,
- 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
- Robert Edmunds-Coopey, J. (2018). On Marcuse, Phenomenology, and Marxism
- 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. (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. (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). 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. (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). 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. (2019, June). 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). 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, 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. (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