Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose (born September 20, 1947 in London , † December 9, 1995 in Coventry ) was a British philosopher and sociologist .
Born in 1947 as Gillian Stone , she grew up as the daughter of a non-practicing Jewish family in west London and studied at St Hilda's College of Oxford University , at Columbia University and the Free University of Berlin . She chose the name Rose at the age of 16. As an academic, she was involved in the Polish Commission for the Future of Auschwitz . In 1995, at the age of 48, she succumbed to two years of severe cancer, which she discussed in her autobiographical story Die Arbeit der Liebe . On her deathbed she converted to Christianity in the Anglican Church .
She began her academic career with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno , supervised by Leszek Kołakowski . She then taught as a reader in the Faculty of European Studies at the University of Sussex and finally as Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick (1989-1995).
Modernism and its aporias played a central role in their thinking . It was in this context that the book about Hegel and her polemics against the postmodern French thinkers, primarily Derrida and Foucault, was written .
Fonts (selection)
- The Melancholy Science. An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1978)
- Hegel Contra Sociology (1981)
- Dialectic of Nihilism: Poststructuralism and Law (1984)
- Judaism and Modernity (1993)
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Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life (1995)
- dt .: The work of love . Kunstmann, Munich 1996 and others; ISBN 3-596-14592-9
literature
- Shanks, Andrew, Against Innocence: Gillian Rose's Reception and Gift of Faith (London, SCM Press, 2008).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gillian Rose in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gillian Rose (1947–1995) Bibliography
- Obituary / Obituary Professor Gillian Rose
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SURNAME | Rose, Gillian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British philosopher and sociologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1995 |
Place of death | Coventry |