Peter Dews

Peter Kenneth Dews (born 22 April 1952) is a British philosopher specialising in critical theory and continental philosophy, and an emeritus professor at the University of Essex.

Life and works His first degree was in English from Queens' College, Cambridge, followed by a master's in sociology of literature from the University of Essex.

He taught philosophy at Middlesex University, and European philosophy and literature at Anglia Ruskin University, before joining the academic staff of the University of Essex. He was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen. Dews's 2023 book on Schelling's Late Philosophy was the subject of a book symposium by Review for the Society of German Idealism and Romanticism, in which it received reviews from James Kreines, Philipp Schwab and Marcela García Romero.

He was dubbed "the UK's most sensitive Habermas-watcher" by journalist Pat Kane in 1993.

Publications

Books

Edited volumes (2nd edn. 1992, )

Selected articles and book chapters