Demandante - UST Philosophy Department

Faculty members

Darlene O. Demandante

Instructor IV

AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (Macquarie, Australia)

dodemandante@ust.edu.ph

https://independent.academia.edu/DarleneDemandante

research

INTERESTS

Continental French Philosophy, Aesthetics, Politics, Feminist Philosophy, Political Subjectivation

professional affiliations

Instructor IV, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas

educational background

Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Philosophy

Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia (2019)
Thesis: The Political Subject and its Experiences: An Alternative Reading of Rancière on Political Subjectivity
Supervisor: Prof. Jean-Philippe Deranty, Ph. D

Master of Arts, Major in Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2010)
Thesis: Love and Jouissance in the Ethical Subjectivity of the Lacanian Subject
Supervisor: Prof. Florentino Hornedo, Ph.D.

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2005)
Thesis: The Dialectics of Desire and the De-centered Self in Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

Completed Courses

Third Annual International Summer School in German Philosophy: The Ontological Turn in Contemporary Philosophy (July 1-14, 2012), Rheinische-Friedrich Wilhelms Universität-Bonn, Bonn, Germany

publications

Journal Editorial |"Women and Philosophy: An Initial Move Towards a More Inclusive Practice of Philosophy in the Philippine Context" in Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol 1. No. 14, June 2020 pp. 140
Journal Article |"Aesthetics, Politics, and Embodiment" in Kritike-An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol 1. No. 14, June 2020 pp. 140
Journal Article | “Lacanian Perspectives on Love” in Kritike- An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol. 8 No. 102-118
Journal Article | “Towards a Lacanian Political Theory” in SURI – The Scholarly Journal of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines June 2014 No. 1, 104-118
Article | “St. Thomas Aquinas and Lacan on Love” in ACTA-Proceedings of the Conference on Thomism and Asian Cultures October, 2012