Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward
Alma mater	Oxford University (BA) and Yale University (PhD)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	European philosophy
School	Critical theory European philosophy Continental philosophy French philosophy
Institutions	Kingston University Kings College London Middlesex University
Main interests	political philosophy, French philosophy, Political freedom, Post-Colonialism, Existentialism, Globalisation
Influences Sartre, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, Gramsci, Blanqui, Kant, Hegel, Marx, the majority of French philosophy

Peter Hallward is a political philosopher, best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. He has also published works on post-colonialism and contemporary Haiti. Hallward is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy and a contributing editor to Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

After completing his PhD at Yale University in French and African-American studies, Hallward became a lecturer, and then reader, of French philosophy and literature at King's College London from 1999-2004, and then joined the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, originally located at Middlesex University. He is now a professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University.

External links

• Hallward's page at Kingston University
• Hallward's archive at Radical Philosophy
• Angelaki The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
• Save Middlesex Philosophy
• Audio file of lecture by Peter Hallward on communism titled 'Communism of the Intellect, Communism of the Will'