Professor Reidar Due
Subject: Modern Languages
Department: Medieval and Modern Languages
College appointment: Tutorial Fellow
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I am one of the conveners of the MSt in Film Aesthetics and a Fellow in the French Sub-faculty.
In addition to my ongoing interest in philosophical film aesthetics, my research focuses on the interface of ethics and political ideals. I am interested in notions of alienation, dignity and respect in the context of contemporary democracy and in relation to the history of liberal thought and its critics – including in particular the twentieth-century philosophers Hannah Arendt, Georg Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hans Blumenberg, Claude Lefort and Jacques Derrida.
I welcome doctoral applications relating, in one way or the other, to this broad area of study. Below are listed four articles in which I present my research programme.
‘Spy Films and Intellectual Alienation’, Cultural and Religious Studies, 2019
‘Miscommunication and Democratic Membership’, in Miscommunications, Errors, Media, ed. Timothy Barker and Maria Korolkova, Bloomsbury, 2021
‘Nominalist Intersubjectivity’, Eco-Ethica 11, 2023
‘Alienation and Authenticity: From Hannah Arendt to Billy Wilder’, Eco-Ethica 12, 2025
