Dr Erika Kerruish BAHon (ANU), PhD (UNSW) 

Erika teaches cultural studies and philosophy in the School of Arts and Social Sciences
at Southern Cross University. Her research interests include emotion and subjectivity,
aesthetics and cultural theory. She is an associate editor for the peer reviewed journal,
Transformations.

Journal articles

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Benjamin’s shock and image: critical responses to hyperaesthetic culture, Transformations (2012)
 

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Interpreting feeling: Nietzsche on the emotions and the self, Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy (2009)

Nietzsche’s aspiration to “have and not have one’s emotions” seems an impossible one. However, Nietzsche...

 

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From vulgar words to lightening bolts: Nietzsche on style, language and experience, Literature and Aesthetics (2007)

Nietzsche writes that literary styles must be taken into account when determining meaning. To not...

 

Book chapters

Common values, culturally embedded multiculturalism and the necessary other (with Baden Offord and V D'Cruz), As others see us: The Australian values debate - postcolonial perspectives on Australian culture (2008)