Howard Caygill

Howard Caygill
Born	1958 (age 65–66)
Website	https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-howard-caygill-412/
School	Continental philosophy Critical Theory
Institutions	Kingston University University of East Anglia Goldsmiths, University of London
Main interests	Political philosophy 20th-century philosophy Aesthetics

Howard Caygill (born 1958) is a British philosopher.

He has held the position of Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University since 2011. Previously he had taught at University of East Anglia and Goldsmiths College, University of London.

He is known for his work on Walter Benjamin, Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Levinas, and Franz Kafka; and concepts such as resistance have influenced fields including political philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory and continental philosophy.

Jay Bernstein has described Caygill as "one of the two or three leading practitioners and exponents of European philosophy in the UK".

Caygill is the Literary Executor of the estate of Gillian Rose.

Bibliography

Books

• Caygill, Howard (2020). Force and understanding: essays on philosophy and resistance. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-10786-1
• Caygill, Howard (2017). Kafka: in light of the accident. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4725-9542-3
• Caygill, Howard (2013). On resistance: a philosophy of defiance. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4725-2258-0
• Caygill, Howard (2002). Levinas and the political. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-11248-2
• Caygill, Howard (1998). Walter Benjamin: the colour of experience. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08958-1
• Caygill, Howard (1995). A Kant dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-17535-3
• Caygill, Howard (1989). Art of judgment. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-16596-5