Rate My Professor Michael Ure

Michael Ure is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University. He earned his PhD in 2005 from The Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. Following his doctorate, Ure served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2007 to 2010 in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. Since joining Monash University, he has been the lead investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant 'Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life' (2014-2019). Ure is the editor of the Bloomsbury book series 'Re-inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life'. He currently has two books in progress: Resentment/Ressentiment (Routledge, co-authored with Robert van Krieken) and Nietzsche's Free Spirit (Cambridge University Press). Ure teaches advanced units in political theory, including Modern Political Thought and Theories, Concepts and Controversies in Politics and International Relations.

Ure's research specializations encompass modern and classical political theory, the politics of the emotions, European philosophy, and philosophy as a way of life, with particular attention to thinkers such as Nietzsche, Foucault, and Hadot. He has published extensively in these fields with leading academic presses. Key works include his monograph Nietzsche's Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works (Lexington Books, 2008); the co-edited collection The Politics of Compassion (Routledge, 2014, with Mervyn Frost); Nietzsche's The Gay Science: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2019); and Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (Bloomsbury, 2021, with Matthew Sharpe). Additional contributions feature chapters such as 'Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality', 'Stoicism: political resistance or retreat?', 'Post-traumatic societies: On reconciliation, justice and the emotions', and 'Sympathy for the devil'. Ure has been recognized with Rufus Davis Awards for supervising the best Politics Honours theses in 2012 ('Freedom in Foucault: The ethics of aesthetics' by Kylie Dolan), 2013 ('Reclaiming Conflict in the Political' by Octavia Bryant), and 2015 ('The Politics of Nihilism: Political Existentialism and Political Humanism in Nietzsche and Camus' by Robert Moseley).