Peter Dews

Peter Kenneth Dews (born 22 April 1952) is a British philosopher, in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy. He made his name with the Logics of Disintegration, on the limitations of post-structuralism.^[1] He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex.

His first degree was in English, at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Southampton.

Work

• Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory (1987)
• The Limits of Disenchantment: Essays on Contemporary European Philosophy (1995)
• Deconstructive Subjectivities (Ed.) (1994)
• The Idea Of Evil (2008)

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