This page is not about the geographer also called Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose (20 September 1947-9 December 1995) was a British scholar working in the fields of philosophy and sociology. Her work included criticisms of neo-Kantianism and post-modernism.

She was Reader at the School of European Studies (the University of Sussex) and then Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick from 1989 to her death in 1995.

Background

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She was born into a liberal Jewish family. The academic Jacqueline Rose was her sister.

Academic career

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To be completed.

As part of her thinking into the Holocaust, Prof. Rose was engaged by the Polish Commission for the Future of Auschwitz in 1990. She subsequently recalled this experience as "..." (Love's Work, p. To provide exact quotation)

Works

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• The Melancholy Science, An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1978)
• Hegel Contra Sociology (1981)
• Dialectic Of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law (1984)
• "Architecture to Philosophy - The Postmodern Complicity", an article in Theory, Culture & Society, Volume 5(2-3), June 1988 special edition on "Postmodernism".
• The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (1992)
• Judaism and Modernity (1993)
• Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life (1995)
• Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation (1996)
• Paradiso (1999)

Further reading: works by students

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• Contradiction of Enlightenment: Hegel and the Broken Middle by Nigel Tubbs
• Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant by Kyriaki Goudeli

External links

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• Obituary from Radical Philosophy
• The tragedy of Gillian Rose, by Arnold Jacob Wolf
• Mind the Gap: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose, by Nigel Tubbs
• Sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Christmas Day 1996

British philosophers