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Dr Ian Tregenza

Location: Building W6A Room 429
E-mail:Ian.Tregenza@humn.mq.edu.au
Tel: 9850 8808
Fax: 9850 6064
Consultation Times:For POL Units

Teaching Areas:
 POL167 Thinking Politically
POL391 Politics: Theories and Methods

Current Appointment  
Lecturer, Macquarie University


Education
1990 BA (Hons), Macquarie
1996 PhD, University of New South Wales

Recent and forthcoming publications:

Books:

  • Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes: A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas ( Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2003)

Articles:

  • ‘ Leviathan as Myth: Michael Oakeshott and Carl Schmitt on Hobbes and the Critique of Rationalism', Contemporary Political Theory , Vol. 1, 2002, 349-369
  •  ‘Collingwood, Oakeshott, and Webb on the “Historical Element” in Religion', Collingwood and British Idealism Studies , Vol. 13, no. 2, 2007, 93-117
  •  ‘State and Civilization in Australian New Idealism, 1890-1950', History of Political Thought , vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2008. Co-authored with M. Hughes-Warrington.
  • ‘The Idealist Tradition in Australian Religious Thought', accepted for publication in Journal of Religious History .

  • ‘Political Theory', in R. Rhodes (ed.) The Australian Study of Politics (Palgrave, forthcoming 2009)

  • ‘From Virtues to Values: Australian Citizenship in the Twentieth Century', in C. Slade and M. Möllering (eds.) From Migrant to Citizen: Testing Language, Testing Culture (Palgrave, forthcoming)
  • ‘Scepticism and Tradition: The Religious Imagination of Michael Oakeshott', forthcoming in an edited collection on Oakeshott. edited by C. Abel.
Reviews and Review Articles:

  • Review of R. Tseng, The Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment , in History of Political Thought , vol. 24, no. 4, October 2003, 703-5.

  • Review of A. Elliott and L. Ray (eds.), Key Contemporary Social Theorists , in Australian Journal of Political Science , vol. 38, no. 2, July 2003, 368-9.

  • Review of O. Zunz and A. Kahan (eds.) The Tocqueville Reader , in Australian Journal of Political Science , vol. 38, no. 2, July 2003, 376-7.
  • Review of S. Gerenscer , The Skeptic's Oakeshott , in The Review of Politics , Summer 2001, vol. 63, no. 3, 617-620
  • ‘The Troubled History of Pluralism', in The European Legacy , vol. 6, no. 4, August 2001, 505-8 (review article).