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Name: Rafael Winkler
Location: B Ring 704A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 4244
Email:听rwinkler@uj.ac.za
About Prof Rafael Winkler
Prof Winkler received his PhD from the University of Warwick in 2007. After completing a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Dundee, Scotland, in 2008, he held temporary teaching positions at various universities in the UK (Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University, The Open University) until taking up a permanent post at听UJ听in July 2012.
In 2019, Prof Winkler was awarded a STIAS Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and a Professorial Fellowship from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Supervision topics: Contemporary Continental听Philosophy,听phenomenology, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, 沤i啪ek; early modern听philosophy听(Descartes, Locke, Hume) and Classical Greek thought (Plato, Aristotle) and Stoicism.
Prof Winkler is the co-founder and co-chair of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa. Please see听听for our past and upcoming events.
Selected philosophical publications:
沤i啪ek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader’s Guide听(London: Bloomsbury, 2024)
Philosophy听of Finitude: Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche听(London: Bloomsbury, 2019)
Identity and Difference听(ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2018)
Phenomenology and Naturalism听(ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2017)
Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates on the Self听(ed.) (London: Palgrave, 2016)
Prof Winkler regularly publishes in the听Mail & Guardian. You can read his previous publications听.