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