Goldsmiths - University of London

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Professor Howard Caygill

Position held:
Professor of Cultural History

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7574

Email:
h.caygill (@gold.ac.uk)

Academic qualifications

BSc Bristol (1979)
MA Sussex (1980)
DPhil Sussex (1983)

Teaching

First year
HT51017A Concepts and Methods in History

Second and third year
HT52064A Medical History
HT52984A/HT53084A Art and Culture in Italy 1300-1450
HT52099A/HT53099A Art and Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

MA
HT71053A Contemporary Thought

Research interests

My interests lie in the fields of the history of philosophy, aesthetics and cultural history and I am currently completing a book on the philosophical and medical aspects of the body for Sage Publications, London.

Selected publications

Art of Judgment (Oxford, Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1989)

A Kant Dictionary (Oxford, Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1995)

Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (London, Routledge, 1998)

Levinas and the Political (London, Routledge, 2002)

Author of published article: 'ber Erfindung und Neuerfindungen der sthetik', Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie (2001)

Author of published article: 'Reading Kant Historically', Radical Philosophy (2001)

Author of published article: 'Perpetual Police: Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military Violence', European Journal of Social Theory (2001)

Professional activities

Literary executor of the late Professor Gillian Rose and a member of the Editoral Board for the journals Tekhnema: Journal of Philosophy and Technology, the European Journal of Social Theory and New Nietzsche Studies.