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)