Howard Caygill Honorary Degree
Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Visual Culture
Bio
Howard Caygill, philosopher and cultural historian, has taught at Goldsmiths, Kingston, and Paris VIII, and is the author of influential works including A Kant Dictionary, Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance, and Kafka: In Light of the Accident.
Areas of Research
History of Philosophy, Planetary Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Madness, Philosophies of Resistance, Philosophy and Literature
Publications
Force and Understanding: Writings on Philosophy and Resistance, Steven Howard (ed) (Bloomsbury Press, London 2020)
‘Bacon’s Cynegetic Visions’ in Ben Ware (ed) Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Thames and Hudson, 2020)
'Judges, Heathscapes and Hazardous Quarries: Kafka and the Repetitive Image Series’ in Espen Hammer (ed) Kafka’s The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Kafka: In Light of the Accident (Bloomsbury Press, 2017)
On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)
Levinas and the Political (Routledge, 2003)
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (Routledge, 1998)
A Kant Dictionary (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1996)
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