Dr. Mathew Abbott
Senior Lecturer, Humanities
Campus
Biography
Grounded in modern European philosophy, Dr Mathew Abbott’s research encompasses political thought, moral philosophy and aesthetics. Dr Abbott’s work also contributes to film studies, art theory and literary theory. Mathew’s current research focusses on modernism, naturalism, ecology, and self-consciousness.
Mathew has published widely, including in top-ranked international journals. He has placed two monographs with Edinburgh University Press: The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology (2014) and Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy (2016). Routledge published his collection Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality (2018). His research has been translated into Italian and Persian.
Mathew has spoken at academic events in Oxford, London, Essex, Lancaster, New York City, Montreal, Amsterdam, Münster, Karlsruhe, Valletta, Porto, Lucca, Santiago, and Auckland. In 2018 he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leipzig’s Research School of Analytic German Idealism.
- Publications
Species-being and self-consciousness: toward a marxian naturalism
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0969725X.2025.2554130
Coming round to ourselves: Labour's self-education in the disrupted Earth system
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/07255136251401907