Peter Dews (philosopher)


Peter Kenneth Dews is a British philosopher specialising in critical theory and continental philosophy, and an emeritus professor at the University of Essex.

Life and works

His first degree was in English from Queens' [College, Cambridge], followed by a master's in sociology of literature from the University of Essex. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Southampton.
He taught philosophy at Middlesex University, and European philosophy and literature at Anglia Ruskin University, before joining the academic staff of the University of Essex. He was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen.
Dews made his name with the Logics of Disintegration, on the limitations of post-structuralism. Dews's 2023 book on Schelling's Late Philosophy was the subject of a book symposium by Review for the Society of [German Idealism and Romanticism], in which it received reviews from James Kreines, Philipp Schwab and Marcela García Romero.
He was dubbed "the UK's most sensitive Habermas-watcher" by journalist Pat Kane in 1993.

Publications

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