Jeremy Weate
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Name: | Jeremy Weate |
Birth: | 1969, England |
Death: | N.A. |
School/tradition: | Existential phenomenology |
Main interests: | Space, Race, Cultural theory |
Notable ideas: | " Desire/reason/spirit [are] embodied and non-hierarchical responses to the world which exists before us" |
Influences: | Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Lefebvre, Levinas |
Influenced: | N.A. |
Jeremy Weate was born in Wheaton Aston. He studied philosophy at the University of Hull, the University of Liège and the University of Warwick, graduating with a PhD in philosophy from Warwick in 1998. His PhD thesis was Phenomenology and Difference: the Body, Architecture and Race. He is also the author of the best-selling children's book A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy, which was published by Dorling Kindersley in 1998 and translated into 9 languages. He is a philosopher and consultant. He writes a popular and sometimes controversial blog on his experiences and reflections while working in Nigeria. He is also the Managing Director of Lagos' first online guide: Lagos Live. With his partner Bibi Bakare-Yusuf he runs a publishing company in Nigeria called Cassava Republic Press. His interests are in research into contemporary African cultures, photography and film-making. He is working on two long term writing projects, on memory and invisibiity.