Professor Ruth Abbey

Biography

Ruth Abbey is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in the areas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Taylor, Feminist Political Thought, Liberal Political Thought, and Animal Ethics. She is the author of Nietzsche’s Middle Period, Philosophy Now: Charles Taylor, The Return of Feminist Liberalism, and Human All too Human: A Critical Introduction and Guide (part of the Edinburgh Guides to Nietzsche Series).

She is the editor of Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor,  Feminist Interpretations of Rawls, and Cosmopolitan Civility.

She has a PhD from McGill University and prior to coming to Swinburne taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has also served as the Editor in Chief of The Review of Politics.