Jeremy Weate

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Western Philosophy
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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.

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