Peter Hallward is a
political philosopher, best known for his work on
Alain Badiou and
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...
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He has also published works on
post-colonialism and contemporary
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
. 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
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern ...
and
literature at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
from 1999 to 2004. He then joined the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, which relocated from
Middlesex University
Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated MDX) is a public research university in Hendon, northwest London, England. The name of the university is taken from its location within the historic county boundaries ...
to
Kingston University. He is now a professor of Modern European Philosophy at
Kingston University.
Work
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."
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Bibliography
Books
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Edited volumes
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*Hallward, Peter, and Knox Peden, eds.(2012) ''Concept and Form Volume 1: Selections from the Cahiers Pour L'Analyse''. Vol. 1. London: Verso,
*Hallward, Peter, and Knox Peden, eds. (2012) ''Concept and Form Volume 2: Interviews and essays on the Cahiers pour l'Analyse.'' Vol. 2. London: Verso,
*Hallward, Peter, and Philippe Le Goff, eds. (2018) ''The Blanqui Reader: Political Writings, 1830-1880'' London: Verso,
Journal articles
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Translations
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Citations
External links
Hallward's page at Kingston UniversityHallward's archive at Radical PhilosophyAngelaki The Journal of the Theoretical HumanitiesSave Middlesex PhilosophyAudio file of lecture by Peter Hallward on communism titled 'Communism of the Intellect, Communism of the Will'
Living people
Canadian political philosophers
Canadian philosophers
French–English translators
Academics of Kingston University
Philosophy teachers
Academics of Middlesex University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Deleuze scholars
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