Howard Caygill

Areas of interest

History of philosophy, planetary aesthetics, aesthetics of madness, philosophies of resistance, philosophy and literature, political philosophy, and the critique of metaphysics.

Education

• PhD, University of Sussex
• MA, University of Sussex
• BSc, University of Bristol

Biography

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He was previously Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of "Art of Judgement," "A Kant Dictionary," "Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience," and "Levinas and the Political." His most recent book "On Resistance" is the first volume of a trilogy on the philosophy of defiance, the second part "Kafka: In the Light of the Accident" will be published in 2015 and the third "The Aesthetics of Madness" in 2016.