BA (Sydney) 

MA (Monash) 

Dr du 3e Cycle, Doctorat és Lettres (Strasbourg) 

Hon.D.(Newcastle, NSW) 

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 

Professor Raoul Mortley AO was reappointed in October 2002 as Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities & Social Sciences after appointments as Vice-Chancellor at Newcastle and
also at Bond University. Since 1997 he has been a consultant to higher education and
business, working most recently through TFG International Pty.Ltd. He has worked for the
Commonwealth Government, the World Bank/IFC, and has also worked in nine individual
universities in Australia, and carried out a study on a student loans scheme in Vietnam.
His clients have also included biotech companies and engineering companies. He has been
Chair of the NSW Vice-Chancellor’s Committee, Chair of the Australian Education office in
Washington, and Chair of the AV-CC Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee. He was
educated at the University of Sydney, Monash University and the University of Strasbourg,
and has spent substantial periods as Researcher and Director of Research in the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. 

His scholarly work is in philosophy and the history of ideas and he has published a
number of books in this area. He taught at the Sorbonne as Visiting Professor in
philosophy and religion in May 2003, and at the Collège de France as Visiting
International Professor in 2000. 

Professor Mortley has worked in the area of philosophy and the history of ideas since his
undergraduate days, during which he was trained in Latin, Greek and Philosophy. His
publications lie in the area of Platonism, Neoplatonism and the development of
Christianity. More recently he has begun to focus on Plotinus, and is writing a book on
that philosopher, on the general area of the self and its limits.

Articles

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Chapter I. Emmanuel Levinas, French Philosophers in Conversation, by Raoul Mortley (1991)

Emmanuel Levinas was born in Lithuania in 1905, though he received a French university education,...

 

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Chapter II. Monique Schneider, French Philosophers in Conversation, by Raoul Mortley (1991)

Monique Schneider was born in France in 1935, and works partly in philosophy and partly...

 

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Chapter III. Michel Serres, French Philosophers in Conversation, by Raoul Mortley (1991)

Michel Serres was born in France in 1930, and is Professor in History of Science...

 

Chapter IV. Luce Irigaray, French Philosophers in Conversation, by Raoul Mortley (1991)

Luce Irigaray is a French national, born in Belgium in 1930. Her initial training was...

 

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Chapter V. Michèle Le Doeuff, French Philosophers in Conversation, by Raoul Mortley (1991)

Michèle Le Doeuff was born in 1948, and currently holds a research post in the...

 

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Books

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French philosophers in conversation: Levinas, Schneider, Serres, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Derrida, Raoul Mortley (1991)

"French Philosophers in Conversation" eavesdrops on contemporary themes in French intellectual life. Well-known figures Jacques...

 

From Word to Silence, Vol. 2, The Way of Negation, Christian and Greek, Raoul Mortley (1986)
 

From Word to Silence, Vol.1, The Rise and Fall of Logos, Raoul Mortley (1986)
 

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Ancient Mysticism : Greek and Christian Mysticism, and some comparisons with Buddhism, Publications of the Macquarie Ancient History Association (1978)

[Extract] ... And so Pascal recorded his particular mystical experience bearing the record of it...