Jonathan Rée
Jonathan Rée (* 1948 in Bradford ) is a British historian and philosopher.
Life
Jonathan Rée studied history at Sussex University and Oxford University . Rée was a founding member of the Radical Philosophy group in 1972 and writes regularly for their bimonthly magazine.
Rée has taught at Middlesex Polytechnic since 1977, which was merged with Middlesex University in 1992. Rée left the university in 2002 when it was restructured and the number of lecturers in the Philosophy Department was cut from 21 to five. He has been working as a freelance writer ever since. His courses at The Open University include Hannah Arendt , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Karl Marx , Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche .
Rée writes for the feature pages of newspapers and magazines such as Evening Standard , London Review of Books , Prospect , The Independent , Times Literary Supplement and New Humanist and also appears in translations in Der Freitag and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
He has appeared in various radio programs and in 1992 hosted a seven-part series on Channel 4 on modern philosophy with Paul Ricœur , Frank Kermode , Hélène Cixous , Terry Eagleton , Julia Kristeva , Edward Said and Jacques Derrida .
In 1999, Rée published a study on the history of the deaf .
Fonts (selection)
- with James O. Urmson : The concise encyclopedia of Western philosophy . London: Routledge, 2005
- I see a voice: deafness, language, and the senses - a philosophical history . New York: Metropolitan Books, H. Holt and Co., 1999
- with Jane Chamberlain: Kierkegaard: a critical reader . Oxford: Blackwell, 1998
- Heidegger: history and truth in Being and Time . London: Phoenix, 1998
- Philosophical tales: an essay on philosophy and literature . London: Methuen, 1987
- Proletarian philosophers: Problems in socialist culture in Britain, 1900-1940 . New York: Clarendon Press, 1984
- Descartes . New York: Pica Press, 1975
- Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English (2019, Allen Lane), ISBN 978-0-7139-9933-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jonathan Rée in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Jonathan Ree in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Journal articles by Jonathan Rée in Radical Philosophy
- Jonathan Rée , at The Open University
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Rée ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at HarperCollins
- ^ Radical Philosophy Founding Statement
- ↑ Jonathan Rée: The Brothers Koerbagh , London Review of Books , January 14, 2002
- ↑ Talking Liberties , at British Film Institute (BFI)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rée, Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradford |