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Karl Smith completed his PhD in Sociology at La Trobe University and has taught in sociology, anthropology and communications at La Trobe, Monash and Victoria Universities. His publications include: Meaning, Subjectivity, Society: Making Sense of Modernity (2010, Brill); ‘“Deep Engagement” & Disengaged Reason’ (Australian Journal of Anthropology, 22: 40–55); ‘The Constitution of Modernity: A Critique of Castoriadis’ (European Journal of Social Theory, 12(4), Oct. 2009) and ‘Religion and the Project of Autonomy’ (Thesis Eleven no. 91, Nov. 2007).

Education

  • 2007 
    La Trobe University, PhD

Publications

  • 2014
    Heteronomy, pp. 13–22, Psyche, pp. 75–88, and Modernity, pp.179–190 , in Suzi Adams (ed.) Cornelius Castoriadis: Key Concepts, Continuum: London
  • 2012
    'From Dividual and Individual Selves to Porous Subjects’ , Australian Journal of Anthropology, 23: 50–64
  • 2011
    ‘“Deep Engagement” & Disengaged Reason’, Australian Journal of Anthropology, 22: 40–55
  • 2010
    Meaning, Subjectivity, Society: Making Sense of Modernity, Brill: Leiden
  • 2009
    ‘The Constitution of Modernity: A Critique of Castoriadis’, European Journal of Social Theory, 12(4): 505–521
  • 2009
    ‘Meaning and Porous Being’, Thesis Eleven, 99: 7–26
  • 2007
    ‘Religion and the Project of Autonomy’, Thesis Eleven No. 91
  • 2005
    ‘Re-Imagining Castoriadis’s Psychic Monad’ , Thesis Eleven No.83
  • 2004
    ‘Further Towards a Sociology of Evil’, Thesis Eleven, 79: 65–74