Timothy David Brendan O'Hagan (4 January 1945 – 19 May 2025) was a British philosopher, who was a professor in the Department of Philosophy,
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...
.
He is best known for his work on
Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher ('' philosophe''), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects ...
's thought (''Rousseau,'' 1999) and
philosophy of law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
(''The End of Law?,'' 1984).
O'Hagan died on 19 May 2025, at the age of 80.
O'Hagan
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Books
*''Jean-Jacques Rousseau'', Routledge 1999
*''The End of Law?'', Blackwell 1984
References
External links
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1945 births
2025 deaths
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
21st-century British philosophers
British philosophy academics
Rousseau scholars
Academics of the University of East Anglia
British philosophers of law
British political philosophers
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