Peter Dews (philosopher)

Peter Kenneth Dews (born 22 April 1952) is a British philosopher, in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy at the University of Essex.^[1]

Peter Dews
Born	1942
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Southampton (PhD)
Thesis	Meaning, Force and Truth in Post-Structuralism: A Critical Presentation of Recent French Philosophies (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Anthony Manser
Other advisors	Perry Anderson, Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	German Idealism
Institutions	Manchester University
Website	https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/DEWSP24209/Peter-Dews

Life and works

His first degree was in English, at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Southampton.^[2]

Dews made his name with the Logics of Disintegration, on the limitations of post-structuralism.^[3] Dews 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.^[4]

Selected publications

Books

• Logics of disintegration : post-structuralist thought and the claims of critical theory. Internet Archive. London ; New York : Verso. 1987. ISBN 978-0-86091-813-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)^[5][6]
• The limits of disenchantment : essays on contemporary European philosophy. Internet Archive. London ; New York : Verso. 1995. ISBN 978-1-85984-022-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• The Idea of Evil (1 ed.). Wiley. 2008. doi:10.1002/9780470691830. ISBN 978-1-4051-1704-3.
• Schelling's Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel (1 ed.). Oxford University PressNew York. 9 February 2023. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190069124.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-006912-4.^[7][4]

Editorials

• Critchley, Simon; Dews, Peter (1996). Deconstructive Subjectivities. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2724-8.

Articles

• "The 'New Philosophers' and the End of Leftism". Radical Philosophy (024). 1980. ISSN 0300-211X.