Gillian Rose

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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)
  • Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life (1995)

literature

  • Shanks, Andrew, Against Innocence: Gillian Rose's Reception and Gift of Faith (London, SCM Press, 2008).

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personal data
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