Mark Cauchi
Associate Professor
Office: McLaughlin College, 033
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 77558
Email: mcauchi@yorku.ca
Primary website: https://yorku.academia.edu/MarkCauchi
My teaching and research revolve around the following themes and areas: the relationship of the secular and the religious; theories of modernity; postsecularism; continental philosophy; the relationship of agency, otherness, and dependency; aesthetics, especially film theory and criticism. I am not presently taking on new graduate students.
Degrees
PhD, Social and Political Thought, York UniversityResearch Interests
"Secularist Film Studies and the Occlusion of the Secular" in Cinema and Secularism (ed. Mark Cauchi, Bloomsbury 2024)
"The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier's Melancholia" in Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier, eds. Cauchi and Caruana (SUNY Press, 2017).
"A/Porias of the Skin: Secrets and Secretions of Self and Other" in Silence and the Silenced, eds. Ernesto Virgulti, Leslie Boldt, Corrado Frederico (Peter Lang).
“The Infinite Supplicant: On a Limit and a Prayer” in The Phenomenology of Prayer, eds. Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series, ed. John Caputo (Fordham University Press)
"Traversing the Infinite Through Augustine and Derrida" in Difference in Philosophy of Religion, ed. Phillip Goodchild (Ashgate Pub., 2003)
"Every Wholly Other: Postsecular Pluralism in Isabel Rocamora's Faith" in Journal of Film-Philosophy (forthcoming 2024)
"Secularity the Day After Tomorrow: Discerning Nietzsche's Postsecular Thought" in Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, October 2023.
"The Insistence of Religion in Philosophy: An Interview with John D. Caputo" (with John Caruana) Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 20, Number 1, 2016.
"Unconditioned by the Other: Agency and Alterity in Kant and Levinas," in Idealistic Studies.
"Otherwise than Laicite: Toward an Agonistic Secularism in Levinas" in Levinas Studies, vol. 10, 2015.
"Otherness and the Renewal of Freedom in Jarmusch's Down by Law" in Film-Philosophy, 17.1. http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/363/867
“Happy Birthday to Kierkegaard! The Work of Celebrating the Coming into Existence of One Who is Dead” in The European Legacy, special issue on “Kierkegaard at Two Hundred,” 18.7.
“Creation and the Critique of Capitalism in Marx, Nancy, and Žižek” in Political Theology, 12.4
"The Secular to Come: Interrogating the Derridean 'Secular'" in Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, 10.1: http://www.jcrt.org/archives/10.1/Cauchi.pdf
“Deconstruction and Creation: An Augustinian Deconstruction of Derrida” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2009) 66.1
“Infinite Spaces: Walter Benjamin and the Spurious Creations of Capitalism” in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 8.3, December 2003
What's More; or, An Answer to the Question "Is This All There Is?" (Immanent Frame, https://tif.ssrc.org/2017/11/20/whats-more/)
"Horizons of Transcendence." Catalogue essay for Isabel Rocamora exhibition, "Troubled Histories, Ecstatic Solitudes," at the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, 2015. https://www.academia.edu/17476659/Horizons_of_Transcendence_on_Isabel_Rocamoras_film_art_
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA4178 6.0 | A | Death of God: Atheism and Modernity | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | TUTR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | TUTR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA4178 6.0 | A | Death of God: Atheism and Modernity | SEMR |
My teaching and research revolve around the following themes and areas: the relationship of the secular and the religious; theories of modernity; postsecularism; continental philosophy; the relationship of agency, otherness, and dependency; aesthetics, especially film theory and criticism. I am not presently taking on new graduate students.
Degrees
PhD, Social and Political Thought, York UniversityResearch Interests
All Publications
"Secularist Film Studies and the Occlusion of the Secular" in Cinema and Secularism (ed. Mark Cauchi, Bloomsbury 2024)
"The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier's Melancholia" in Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier, eds. Cauchi and Caruana (SUNY Press, 2017).
"A/Porias of the Skin: Secrets and Secretions of Self and Other" in Silence and the Silenced, eds. Ernesto Virgulti, Leslie Boldt, Corrado Frederico (Peter Lang).
“The Infinite Supplicant: On a Limit and a Prayer” in The Phenomenology of Prayer, eds. Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series, ed. John Caputo (Fordham University Press)
"Traversing the Infinite Through Augustine and Derrida" in Difference in Philosophy of Religion, ed. Phillip Goodchild (Ashgate Pub., 2003)
"Every Wholly Other: Postsecular Pluralism in Isabel Rocamora's Faith" in Journal of Film-Philosophy (forthcoming 2024)
"Secularity the Day After Tomorrow: Discerning Nietzsche's Postsecular Thought" in Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, October 2023.
"The Insistence of Religion in Philosophy: An Interview with John D. Caputo" (with John Caruana) Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 20, Number 1, 2016.
"Unconditioned by the Other: Agency and Alterity in Kant and Levinas," in Idealistic Studies.
"Otherwise than Laicite: Toward an Agonistic Secularism in Levinas" in Levinas Studies, vol. 10, 2015.
"Otherness and the Renewal of Freedom in Jarmusch's Down by Law" in Film-Philosophy, 17.1. http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/363/867
“Happy Birthday to Kierkegaard! The Work of Celebrating the Coming into Existence of One Who is Dead” in The European Legacy, special issue on “Kierkegaard at Two Hundred,” 18.7.
“Creation and the Critique of Capitalism in Marx, Nancy, and Žižek” in Political Theology, 12.4
"The Secular to Come: Interrogating the Derridean 'Secular'" in Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, 10.1: http://www.jcrt.org/archives/10.1/Cauchi.pdf
“Deconstruction and Creation: An Augustinian Deconstruction of Derrida” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2009) 66.1
“Infinite Spaces: Walter Benjamin and the Spurious Creations of Capitalism” in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 8.3, December 2003
What's More; or, An Answer to the Question "Is This All There Is?" (Immanent Frame, https://tif.ssrc.org/2017/11/20/whats-more/)
"Horizons of Transcendence." Catalogue essay for Isabel Rocamora exhibition, "Troubled Histories, Ecstatic Solitudes," at the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, 2015. https://www.academia.edu/17476659/Horizons_of_Transcendence_on_Isabel_Rocamoras_film_art_
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA4178 6.0 | A | Death of God: Atheism and Modernity | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | TUTR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1170 9.0 | A | The Modern Age: Shapers and Definers | TUTR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA4178 6.0 | A | Death of God: Atheism and Modernity | SEMR |
