Peter Hallward | |
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| Born | 29 April 1968 |
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| Alma mater | Oxford University (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | Kingston University King's College London Middlesex University |
| Main interests | Political Philosophy,French Philosophy,Critical Theory,Political Will,Postcolonialism,Existentialism |
Peter Hallward (born 29 April 1968) is a political philosopher,best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. [1] He has also published works on post-colonialism and contemporary Haiti. Hallward is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy and a contributing editor to Angelaki:Journal of the Theoretical Humanities .
After completing his PhD at Yale University in French and African-American studies,Hallward became a lecturer,and then reader,of French philosophy and literature at King's College London from 1999 to 2004. He then joined the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy,which relocated from Middlesex University to Kingston University. He is now a professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. [2]
In 2016,Hallward was working on a three part project on key philosophers of political will:Rousseau,Blanqui,and Marx. He is simultaneously working on a larger book entitled 'The Will of the People,' which will "develop and defend a notion of democratic political will,understood as a rational,deliberate,and autonomous capacity for collective self-determination." [2]
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