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Michael Bennett

Assistant Professor

| Contemporary Studies, History of Science and Technology

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Michael Bennett Michael Bennett
michael.bennett@ukings.ca 902 422-1271 ext. 181

BA (Vind), MA (Western), PhD (McMaster)

Mike Bennett’s research explores the areas of overlap between philosophy and evolutionary science, the relationships between truth, language and therapy in classical Athens and postwar Paris, and the use and abuse of the history of philosophy. He is the author of Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics: The Image of Nature (Bloomsbury 2017), co-editor of the interdisciplinary collection Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory (Edinburgh University Press 2019), and his current project critically examines the prestige of the Roman poet Lucretius in “new materialist” theory.

Since earning his PhD in Philosophy from McMaster University in 2014, Dr. Bennett has taught at King’s in various positions, including as a Faculty Fellow and Senior Fellow in the Foundation Year Program and an Assistant Professor (LTA) in Contemporary Studies and the History of Science and Technology.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

  • “Introduction: The Life of the Incorporeal,” in Émile Bréhier, The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism, translated by Jared C. Bly and Ryan J. Johnson. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
  •  “Barad’s Diffractive Methodology and the History of Philosophy,” Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, forthcoming.
  • “Go Nomadism, Evolutionary Computation, and Natural Selection: A Response to Jay Lampert,” Deleuze and Guattari Studies, vol. 18 no. 2 (2024), pp. 277–88.
  • “Nail’s Lucretius: Strong Misreading and Whig History,” Parrhesia, vol. 34 (2022), pp. 119-51.
  • “Habermas’s Interpretation of Arendt in The Future of Human Nature: Communicative Reason, Power, and Natality,” Philosophy Today, vol. 65, no. 3, Summer 2021.

Interests

19th- and 20th-century European philosophy; poststructuralism and postmodernism; science studies and philosophy of science; gender, sex and sexuality; biopolitics and bioethics; philosophy and ecology; history of philosophy (especially ancient Greek and Roman); language and logic


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Courses

Contemporary Studies

New Materialisms: Life, Science, and Politics

Instructor
Michael Bennett
CTMP 4203.03/HSTC 4203.03
Fall, 2025/26
Scotiabank Room
MW 1305-1425
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Contemporary Studies

The Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Instructor
Michael Bennett
CTMP 3192.03
Fall, 2024/25
Seminar Room
T 1605-1755
R 1605-1655
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History of Science and Technology

The Darwinian Revolution

Instructor
Michael Bennett
HSTC2204.03
Fall, 2022/23
Classroom AA1
T 1735-2025
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Contemporary Studies
History of Science and Technology

Studies in Contemporary Science and Technology: New Materialisms: Life, Politics, and Science

Instructor
Michael Bennett
CTMP3411.03 AND HSTC3615.03
Fall, 2022/23
KTS Lecture Hall
T 1305-1355
R 1305-1455
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Contemporary Studies

Science and Culture I: The Discourses of Modernity

Instructor
Michael Bennett
CTMP 3001.03 / HSTC 3031.03
Fall, 2025/26
Archibald Room
M 1535-1725
W 1535-1625
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Contemporary Studies

Science and Culture II: Resetting the Modern

Instructor
Michael Bennett
CTMP 3002.03/HSTC 3032.03
Winter, 2025/26
Archibald Room
M 1535-1725
W 1535-1625
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Contemporary Studies

Bio-Politics:  Human Nature in Contemporary Thought

Instructor
Michael Bennett
CTMP2203.03/HSTC2206.03
Winter, 2025/26
Classroom 1
W 1735-2025
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History of Science and Technology

The Darwinian Revolution

Instructor
Michael Bennett
HSTC2204.03
Fall, 2021/22
Seminar 7
T 1735-2025
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