Jeremy Weate

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Western Philosophy Contemporary philosophy

Name	Jeremy Weate
Birth	1969, England
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"
Influenced by	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.

Jeremy Weate is 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.