School of Political Science & International Studies

Dr Nicholas Heron

Lecturer in Political Science
Undergraduate Convenor, Political Science
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Researcher biography

Nicholas Heron is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Queensland. He specialises in modern political thought and theory, including the reception of pre-modern ideas in the modern period. He is the author of Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology (Fordham UP, 2018) and the translator of Giorgio Agamben's Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Stanford UP, 2015). He is currently researching post-WWII responses to the end-of-history diagnosis.

Prior to joining the School of Political Science and International Studies, he was Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at UQ.

Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (8)
Journal Articles (6)
Newspaper Articles (2)

Books

Heron, Nicholas (2018). Liturgical power: between economic and political theology. New York, NY, United States: Fordham University Press. doi: 10.5422/fordham/9780823278688.001.0001
Agamben, Giorgio and Heron, Nicholas (translator) (2015). Stasis: civil war as a political paradigm. Edinburgh/Stanford: Edinburgh University Press/Stanford University Press.

Book Chapters

Heron, Nicholas (2025). Prelinguisticality: Koselleck and the linguistic turn. Hermeneutics between Berlin and Paris: The search for ethics. (pp. 149-173) edited by Tim Mehigan and Christian Moser. Tübingen, Gerrmany: Mohr Siebeck. doi: 10.1628/978-3-16-163927-2
Heron, Nicholas (2023). One world? History and space in Schmitt’s post-war political theology. Political theology today: 100 years after Carl Schmitt. (pp. 125-138) edited by Mitchell Dean, Lotte List and Stefan Schwarzkopf. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Heron, Nicholas (2016). Zoē aiōnios: Giorgio Agamben and the Critique of Katechontic Time. Agamben and radical politics. (pp. 141-164) edited by Daniel McLoughlin. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Heron, Nicholas (2015). The Ungovernable. Agamben and law. (pp. 367-382) Surrey, England: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315097497
Clemens, Justin, Heron, Nicholas and Murray, Alex (2011). The enigma of Giorgio Agamben. The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life. (pp. 1-8) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Heron, Nicholas (2011). Biopolitics; Dispositif; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Erik Peterson; Subject. The Agamben Dictionary. (pp. 36; 59; 122; 150; 187-39; 61; 123; 151; 189) edited by Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Heron, Nicholas (2011). Idea of poetry, idea of prose. The work of Giorgio Agamben: law, literature, life. (pp. 97-110) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Agamben, Giorgio and Heron, Nicholas (trans.) (2008). K. The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life. (pp. 13-27) edited by Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.

Journal Articles

Heron, Nicholas (2021). The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz’s Dante. Journal of the History of Ideas, 82 (3), 427-452. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2021.0021
Heron, Nicholas (2020). A semiotic approach to the history of concepts. Syndicate.
Heron, Nicholas (2015). What is a minister? Toward a theory of the instrumental cause. The New Centennial Review, 15 (3), 135-166. doi: 10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.3.0135
Nicholas Heron (2011). The Ungovernable. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 16 (2), 159-174. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2011.591594
Giorgio Agamben and Nicholas Heron (trans.) (2010). Introductory Note on the Concept of Democracy. Theory and Event, 13 (1) doi: 10.1353/tae.0.0106
Virno, Paolo and Heron, Nicholas (trans.) (2009). Angels and the general intellect: individuation in Duns Scotus and Simondon. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 7, 58-67.

Newspaper Articles

Heron, Nicholas (2024, 02 25). Critique of Pure Mindlessness Sydney Review of Books
Heron, Nicholas (2017, 04 29). 70 years on, Primo Levi’s If This is A Man is still a powerful reminder of what it means to be human The Conversation