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Ian Fraser
MA (Hons) Edinburgh, MA (York), PhD (Warwick)

Senior Lecturer in Politics Email I.Fraser@lboro.ac.uk Tel. Secretary: +44 (0)1509 222991 Tel. Direct: +44 (0)1509 222979 Fax: +44 (0)1509 223917 Department of Politics, History and International Relations Loughborough University Loughborough Leics. LE11 3TU UK

Biography After completing an MA in Economics at Edinburgh University, I then attained an MA in Political Philosophy at the University of York and then a doctorate on Hegel, Marx and the concept of need at the University of Warwick. My research centres on the concept of the self and identity, Charles Taylor, Marx, Hegel, the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, contemporary social and political philosophy, and the history of social and political thought. My new major project, which further develops from the final chapter of my recent book, Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor, explores the links between aesthetics and politics in radical and critical thought through themes such as alienation, recognition and class. To this end, I have been examining novels such as Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised, Milan Kundera’s Identity, IanMcEwan’s Atonement, and Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame, on which I have presented a number of conference papers and which I aim to utilise as material sources for a new book on these topics. My work on Taylor also continues and I have presented papers exploring his latest work, A Secular Age. I am also currently co-writing with Lawrence Wilde, The Marx Dictionary for Continuum in their philosophy dictionary series. Publications Detailed searchable list of publications Books Forthcoming The Marx Dictionary: Continuum Philosophy Dictionary Series, Co-authored with Lawrence Wilde, Continuum, London, 2011. Previous Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor, Imprint Academic, Exeter UK & Charlottesville, USA, 2007.

Hegel ve Marks: Ihtiyac Kavrami
Turkish translation of Hegel and Marx: The Concept of Need,
Dost Kitabevi Yayinlari, Ankara, 2008.

The Hegel-Marx Connection,
Co-edited with T. Burns, Macmillan, Basingstoke & St Martin’s Press, New York, 2000.

Hegel and Marx: The Concept of Need,
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1998.

Articles

‘Charles Taylor’s Catholicism’, Contemporary Political Theory, 4, 3, 2005.

‘Charles Taylor, Marx and Marxism’, Political Studies, Vol 51, 4, 2003.

‘Charles Taylor on Transcendence: Benjamin, Bloch and Beyond’,
Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol 29, 3, 2003.

‘Platonic Influences in the Thought of Marcuse’, Studies in Marxism,
7, 2000.

‘Hegel, Marxism and Mysticism’, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 41/42, 2000.                          
                                               
‘The Dialectical Mediation of Need in Marx’, Studies in Marxism, 4, 1998.

‘Two of a Kind: Hegel, Marx, Dialectic and Form’, Capital & Class, 61, 1997.
               
‘Speculations on Poverty in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’, European Legacy: Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, 1, 7, 1996.

‘Extremities and Interpretation: A Critique of Straussian Hermeneutics’, Occasional Paper in Politics & International Relations, Nottingham Trent University, 1996.

‘Beyond Prometheus: Hegel on the Need to Be Free’, Politics, 15(2),1995.

Chapters in edited books

‘Herbert Marcuse; Essence and Existence’, in L. Wilde (ed.), Marxism’s Ethical Thinkers, Palgrave, 2001.

‘Hegel and Marx on Needs: The Making of a Monster’in The Hegel-Marx Connection, T. Burns & I. Fraser (eds.), Macmillan, 2000.

‘Introduction: An Historical Survey of the Hegel-Marx Connection’, with T. Burns, in The Hegel-MarxConnection, T. Burns & I. Fraser (eds.), Macmillan, 2000.

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy R.J.B. Jones (ed.), Routledge, 2001. Entries on: Socialism; Communism; Surplus Value; Labour Theory of Value; Alienation.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics Iain McLean (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1996. Entries on: Adorno ; Arendt; Hegel; Legitimation Crisis; Lukács; Master and Slave; Reification; Sittlichkeit; Exchange Value; Factors of Production; Monetarism; New Right; Surplus Value.

‘Hegel and Modern Need Theory’ Contemporary Political Studies, (eds.) I. Hampsher Monk & J. Stanyer, Political Studies Association of the U.K, Belfast, 1996