Flinders University
Dr Eduardo de la Fuente
Dr
Eduardo
de la Fuente
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/eduardo.delafuente
| Position/s: | Lecturer in Sociology Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences |
| Phone: | +61 8 82017891 |
| Email: | eduardo.delafuente@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences North (3114) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Eduardo de la Fuente was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but has been residing in Australia since 1974. He studied Economics and Government at the University of Sydney before completing a PhD at Griffith University in the areas of sociology and cultural studies.
Teaching
Research and supervision
Research interests
He recently published a book entitled, Twentieth Century and the Question of Modernity (Routledge, 2011) and co-edited with Peter Murphy, Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Modernity (Brill, 2010). Recent articles in journals such as Classical Sociology, Sociological Theory, Cultural Sociology and the Journal of Sociology have focused on Weber and the modern arts; Simmel and aesthetics of social life; the current state of the sociology of arts; and Classicism and Romanticism (Gouldner's terms) in the social sciences.
At the moment he is working on two major projects: a book on the 'social sciences and art theory' that seeks to bring disciplines like sociology into dialogue with art history, philosophical and empirical aesthetics; and an empirical research project regarding the rise of 'neomodernism' in contemporary architecture and design, and associated lifestyle media (for e.g., magazines like Wallpaper* and Dwell).
Publications
Books
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity. New York: Routledge. [online]. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yVwBusRnZO0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Twentieth+Century+Music+and+the+Question+of+Modernity&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9FAOT_TCIe.
Book chapters
De la Fuente, E. (2011). Aesthetic Explanations of the Social Bond: From Simmel to Maffesoli. In Vincenzo Mele, ed. Sociology, Aesthetics and the City. Pisa, Italy: Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press, pp. 59-75.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Prophet and Priest, Ascetic and Mystic: Towards a Cultural Sociology of the Twentieth Century Composer. In Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy, ed. Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 87-105.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Beyond the academic iron cage: Education and the spirit of aesthetic capitalism. In Michael A Peters & Daniel Araya, ed. Education in the Creative Economy. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 551-564.
De la Fuente, E. and Murphy, P. (2010). Introduction: Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. In Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy, ed. Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 1-11. [online]. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZAGnVuJHLAgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=9789004184343&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6b4TT5SoD6LZmAXTkfzdAw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&e.
Refereed journal articles
De la Fuente, E., Buderick, J. and Walsh, M. (2012). Altered states: An essay on communication and movement. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 26(1), pp.39-49. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.630140.
De la Fuente, E. (2011). From Tenth Street to Studio 54: On the Social Life of Creatives. Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, 22, pp.113-129. [online]. http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/colloquy/journal/issue022/fuente.pdf.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Paradoxes of communication: The case of modern classical music. Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 1(2), pp.237-250. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejpc.1.2.237_1.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). In Defence of Theoretical and Methodological Pluralism in the Sociology of Art. Cultural Sociology, 4(2), pp.217-230. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975510368473.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). The Artwork made me do it: New Directions in the Sociology of Art. Thesis Eleven, 103, pp.3-9. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513610381377.
Books
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity. New York: Routledge. [online]. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yVwBusRnZO0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Twentieth+Century+Music+and+the+Question+of+Modernity&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9FAOT_TCIe.
Book chapters
De la Fuente, E. (2011). Aesthetic Explanations of the Social Bond: From Simmel to Maffesoli. In Vincenzo Mele, ed. Sociology, Aesthetics and the City. Pisa, Italy: Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press, pp. 59-75.
De la Fuente, E. and Murphy, P. (2010). Introduction: Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. In Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy, ed. Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 1-11. [online]. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZAGnVuJHLAgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=9789004184343&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6b4TT5SoD6LZmAXTkfzdAw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&e.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Prophet and Priest, Ascetic and Mystic: Towards a Cultural Sociology of the Twentieth Century Composer. In Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy, ed. Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 87-105.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Beyond the academic iron cage: Education and the spirit of aesthetic capitalism. In Michael A Peters & Daniel Araya, ed. Education in the Creative Economy. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 551-564.
Refereed journal articles
De la Fuente, E., Buderick, J. and Walsh, M. (2012). Altered states: An essay on communication and movement. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 26(1), pp.39-49. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.630140.
De la Fuente, E. (2011). From Tenth Street to Studio 54: On the Social Life of Creatives. Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, 22, pp.113-129. [online]. http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/colloquy/journal/issue022/fuente.pdf.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). In Defence of Theoretical and Methodological Pluralism in the Sociology of Art. Cultural Sociology, 4(2), pp.217-230. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975510368473.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). The Artwork made me do it: New Directions in the Sociology of Art. Thesis Eleven, 103, pp.3-9. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513610381377.
De la Fuente, E. (2010). Paradoxes of communication: The case of modern classical music. Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 1(2), pp.237-250. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejpc.1.2.237_1.
De la Fuente, E. (2009). Exemplary Stories: On the Uses of Biography in Recent Sociology. Thesis Eleven, 97(1), pp.115-129. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513608101913.
De la Fuente, E. (2008). The Art of Social Forms and the Social Forms of Art: The Sociology-Aesthetics Nexus in Georg Simmel's Thought. Sociological Theory, 26(4), pp.344-362. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00333.x.
De la Fuente, E. and West, B.D. (2008). Cultural Sociology in the Australian context. Journal of Sociology, 44(4), pp.315-319. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200900436;res=APAFT.
De la Fuente, E. (2007). The place of culture in Sociology: Romanticism and debates about the cultural turn. Journal of Sociology, 43(2), pp.115-130. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783307076891.
De la Fuente, E. (2007). The New Sociology of Art: Putting Art back into Social Science Approaches to the Arts. Cultural Sociology, 1(3), pp.409-425. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975507084601.
De la Fuente, E. (2007). On the promise of a Sociological aesthetics: from Georg Simmel to Michel Maffesoli. Distinktion: The Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 15, pp.91-110. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2007.9672948.
Refereed conference papers
De la Fuente, E. (2005). Why the sociological imagination? A comparison of C.Wright Mills and John Dewey on the concept of the imagination. In Roberta Julian, Reannan Rottier, Rob White, ed. TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings. Community, Place, Change. pp. 1-9.
Other public research outputs
De la Fuente, E. and Murphy, P. (2010). Editor. Philosphical and Cultural Theories of Music.
Further information
His intellectual motto (with full apologies to Blake) is something like: 'Sociologists should strive to find the entire cosmos in the most mundane, minute or esoteric aspects of life'. If his ideas come to nought, or are not taken up by the academic world at large, he would gladly devote the rest of his life to gardening, flyfishing, studying Medieval mystical theology, or simply doing nothing.
