Clare Carlisle


Clare Carlisle is a British philosopher and biographer. She is the author of books on Baruch Spinoza, Søren Kierkegaard, and George Eliot.

Life

Clare Carlisle was born in Manchester in 1977. She studied philosophy at Trinity [College, Cambridge] between 1995 and 2002. She is a professor at King's College London. In 2024 she gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Los [Angeles Review of Books].

Works

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