James Martin BA MA PhD
Position held:
Reader in Political Theory, Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7754
Email:
j.martin (@gold.ac.uk)
Warmington Tower Room: 709
Biographical Information
I joined the department in 2000. Before that, I worked for six years at Queen's University, Belfast. My degrees are from the Universities of East Anglia, Kent at Canterbury, and Bristol.Teaching
At undergraduate level, I teach on the level 1 course ‘Ideas, Ideologies and Conflicts’ and the level 3 courses, ‘Beyond All Reason’ and ‘Rhetoric and Politics’; at postgraduate level I teach ‘Rhetoric and Political Speech' and contribute to 'Continental Political Theory'.
Areas of supervision
For undergraduate dissertations, I welcome topics on contemporary political theory. I also welcome PhD applications on Continental political theory and philosophy, rhetoric and anything related to the work indicated below.
Research interests
My research lies broadly in the realm of Continental European political theory and philosophy, particularly Italian political thought and post-Heideggerian thought. I am also interested in the rhetorical dimension of politics and its potential to illuminate democracy today.
See my personal web site (above) for further details of my research and publications.
Selected publications
- Piero Gobetti and the Politics of Liberal Revolution , Palgrave US, 2008
- The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law and the State (editor), Verso, 2008
- Continental Political Thought (co-editor), Palgrave, 2006
- Third Way Discourse (co-author), Edinburgh, 2003
- Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire: (Post)Modern Interpretations (co-editor), Pluto, 2002
- Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments (editor), Routledge, 2002
- Gramsci’s Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction , Macmillan, 1998