Professor Howard Caygill
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Professor of Modern European Philosophy
- Email:
- h.caygill@kingston.ac.uk
About
I studied at the Universities of Bristol, Sussex, and Oxford and have taught at the University of East Anglia and Goldsmiths College, University of London. I have published work on Kant, 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy.
Qualifications
- DPhil
- MA
- BSc
Domains
I research in the fields of the history of philosophy, political philosophy and the critique of metaphysics.
Publications
Vocations of the political : Mario Tronti and Max Weber
(2021). Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: (CRMEP Books)
Force and understanding : essays on philosophy and resistance
Caygill, Howard (2020). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Academic)
Kafka: in light of the accident
Caygill, Howard (2017). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Academic)
On resistance: a philosophy of defiance
Caygill, Howard (2013). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury)
Levinas and the political
Caygill, Howard (2002). London, U.K.: (Routledge)
Walter Benjamin: the colour of experience
Caygill, Howard (1998). London, U.K.: (Routledge)
A Kant dictionary
Caygill, Howard (1995). Oxford, U.K.: (Blackwell)
Art of judgment
Caygill, Howard (1989). Oxford, U.K.: (Blackwell Publishers)
Fate and the fateless in Benjamin’s Fate and Character
Caygill, Howard, 2024, Diacritics
The final rhyme (or the community of lament) : Benjamin’s Shakespearian sonnet cycle
Caygill, Howard, 2024, New Benjamin Studies
The natural philosophical essay : reflections on a genre
Caygill, Howard, 2022, (55), 3, pp 303-311
Harold Wager and the photography of plants
Caygill, Howard, 2021, photographies (14), 3, pp 505-519
Heidegger and the automatic Earth image
Caygill, Howard, 2021, Philosophy Today (65), 2, pp 325-338
Bildung and strategy : the fate of the 'beautiful sciences'
Caygill, Howard, 2016, Radical Philosophy, 196, pp 9-13
Review exchange: resistance today
Palacios, Margarita and Caygill, Howard, 2016, European Political Science (15), 1, pp 130-137
Artaud-Immunity : Derrida and the Momo
Caygill, Howard, 2015, Derrida Today (8), 2, pp 113-135
Education should be a right for all
Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric, Auerbach, Paul, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian and Wilson, Scott, 2014, The Guardian
Also Sprach Zapata: philosophy and resistance
Caygill, Howard, 2012, Radical philosophy, 171, pp 19-26
Kafka and The Missing Photograph
Caygill, Howard, 2011, Photographies (4), 1, pp 89-103
The fate of the pariah: Arendt and Kafka's 'Nature Theatre of Oklahoma'
Caygill, Howard, 2011, College Literature (38), 1, pp 1-14
Levinas’s prison notebooks
Caygill, Howard, 2010, Radical philosophy, 160, pp 27-35
The Apostate Messiah: Scholem, Taubes and the Occlusions of Sabbatai Zevi
Caygill, Howard, 2009, Journal for Cultural Research (13), 3-4, pp 191-205
Of Force
Benjamin, Andrew and Caygill, Howard, 2009, Parallax (15), 2, pp 1-3
Life and energy
Caygill, Howard, 2007, (24), 6, pp 19-27
The promise of justice
Caygill, Howard, 2007, Radical philosophy, 143, pp 23-31
Technology and the Propitiation of Chance
Caygill, Howard, 2007, Parallax (13), 4, pp 78-91
From Abstraction to Wunsch: The Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies
Caygill, Howard, 2006, Radical philosophy, 138, pp 10-14
Phenomenologists of the One God : Levinas and Corbin
Caygill, Howard, 2006, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (37), 1, pp 53-61
Witness and calumny in Levinas's prophetic politics
Caygill, Howard, 2006, Etudes Phenomenologiques (22), 43-44, pp 19-36
Under the Epicurean skies
Caygill, Howard, 2006, Angelaki (11), 3, pp 107-115
The force of Kant's Opus postumum
Caygill, Howard, 2005, Angelaki (10), 1, pp 33-42
Agitation and the visible
Caygill, Howard, 2005, Parallax (11), 4, pp 116-124
Bearing Witness to the Infinite: Nancy and Levinas
Caygill, Howard, 2005, Journal for Cultural Research (9), 4, pp 351-357
Braudel's Prison Notebooks
Caygill, Howard, 2004, History Workshop Journal (57), 1, pp 151-160
Barthes and the lesson of Saenredam
Caygill, Howard, 2002, diacritics (32), 1, pp 38-48
Digital Lascaux: The Beginning in the End of the Aesthetic
Caygill, Howard, 2002, Angelaki (7), 1, pp 19-26
Uber Erfindung und Neuerfindungen der Asthetik
Caygill, Howard, 2001, Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie (49), 2, pp 233-242
Perpetual Police?: Kosovo and the elision of police and military violence
Caygill, Howard, 2001, European Journal of Social Theory (4), 1, pp 73-80
Levinas’s political judgement: The Esprit articles 1934–1983
Caygill, Howard, 2000, Radical philosophy, 104, pp 6-15
The Broken Hegel: Gillian Rose's retrieval of speculative philosophy
Caygill, Howard, 1998, Women: A Cultural Review (9), 1, pp 19-27
Scotus’s disjunctive transcendental and its anthropological afterlife
Caygill, Howard (2022). In: Osborne, Peter, (ed.), Afterlives : transcendentals, universals, others. Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books, pp 3-17
Taste and civil society
Caygill, Howard (2019). In: Babich, Babette, (ed.), Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste'. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 177-212
The spirit of resistance and its fate
Caygill, Howard (2018). In: Zantvoort, Bart, (eds.) and Comay, Rebecca, (eds.), Hegel and resistance: history, politics and dialectics. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 81-100
Benjamin's natural theology
Caygill, Howard (2016). In: Dickinson, Colby, (eds.) and Symons, Stephane, (eds.), Walter Benjamin and Theology. New York, U.S.: Fordham University Press, pp 144-163
Bataille and the neanderthal extinction
Caygill, Howard (2016). In: Stronge, Will, (ed.), Georges Bataille and contemporary thought. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 239-264
Arcanum: the secret life of state and civil society
Caygill, Howard (2015). In: Dwivedi, Divya, (eds.) and V, Sanil, (eds.), The Public Sphere From Outside the West. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, pp 21-40
Tableaux for a massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982
Caygill, Howard (2015). In: Stewart, Christopher, (eds.) and Teichmann, Esther, (eds.), Staging disorder. London, U.K.: Black Dog Publishing, pp 29-33
Levinas and Shakespeare
Caygill, Howard (2014). In: Bates, Jennifer Ann, (eds.) and Wilson, Richard, (eds.), Shakespeare and continental philosophy. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press, pp 145-151
Hyperaesthesia and the virtual
Caygill, Howard (2013). In: Mullarkey, John, (eds.) and De Mille, Charlotte, (eds.), Bergson and the art of immanence. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press
Historiography and political theology: Momigliano and the end of history
Caygill, Howard (2011). In: Lianeri, Alexandra, (ed.), The Western Time of Ancient History: Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp 99-116
Kafka and Derrida 'Before the Laws'
Caygill, Howard (2011). In: Kordela, A. Kiarina, (eds.) and Vardoulakis, Dimitris, (eds.), Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages. New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 49-62
Ottoman Baroque: the limits of style
Caygill, Howard (2011). In: Hills, Helen, (ed.), Rethinking the Baroque. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, pp 65-82
Medicina mentis: medicine and the origins of modern philosophy
Caygill, Howard (2010). In: Westerhof, Danielle, (ed.), The alchemy of medicine and print: The Edward Worth Library, Dublin. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, pp 193-213
Physiological memory systems
Caygill, Howard (2010). In: Radstone, Susannah, (eds.) and Schwarz, Bill, (eds.), Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. New York, U.S.A.: Fordham University Press
Physiological memory systems
Caygill, Howard (2010). In: Alexander, Sally, (eds.), Caygill, Howard, (eds.), Feuchtwang, Stephan, (eds.), Hodgkin, Kate, (eds.), Labanyi, Jo, (eds.), Papoulias, Constantina, (eds.) and Terdiman, Richard, (eds.), Memory. New York, U.S.A.: Fordham University Press, pp 227-234
Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory
Caygill, Howard (2010). In: Copeland, Rita, (eds.) and Struck, Peter T., (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Allegory. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp 241-253
Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism
Caygill, Howard (2008). In: De Bolla, Peter, (eds.) and Uhlig, Stefan H., (eds.), Aesthetics and the work of art : Adorno, Kafka, Richter. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 126-146
'Mnemosyne' and 'The Arcades': Warburg and Benjamin's legacy
Caygill, Howard (2008). In: Alvares, Claudia, (ed.), Representing Culture: Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 179-188
The destruction of art
Caygill, Howard (2008). In: Costello, Diarmuid, (eds.) and Willsdon, Dominic, (eds.), The life and death of images: ethics and aesthetics. London, U.K.: Tate Publishing, pp 162-173
Introduction
Kant, Immanuel, Caygill, Howard and Benham, Gary (2007). In: Smith, Norman Kemp, (ed.), Critique of Pure Reason. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp v-xxii
Levinas's Silence
Caygill, Howard (2007). In: Diamantides, Marinos, (ed.), Levinas, Law, Politics. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge-Cavendish, pp 83-92
Soul and cosmos in Kant: a commentary upon 'Two things fill the mind'
Caygill, Howard (2007). In: Morgan, Diane, (eds.) and Banham, Gary, (eds.), Cosmopolitics and the emergence of a future. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 213-234
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism
Caygill, Howard (2007). In: Spyropoulos, Angeliki, (ed.), Walter Benjamin: images and myths of modernity. Athens, Greece: Alexandria Publications, pp 93-108
The transition problem in Kant's 'Opus Postumum'
Caygill, Howard (2007). In: Goudeli, Kyriaki, (eds.), Kontos, Pavlos, (eds.) and Patellis, Ioli, (eds.), Kant: making reason intuitive. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 16-27
Kant and the relegation of the passions
Caygill, Howard (2006). In: Kahn, Victoria, (eds.), Saccamano, Neil, (eds.) and Coli, Daniela, (eds.), Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850. Princeton, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, pp 217-230
Lyric poetry before Auschwitz
Caygill, Howard (2006). In: Cunningham, David, (eds.) and Mapp, Nigel, (eds.), Adorno and Literature. London, U.K.: Continuum, pp 69-83
Apocatastasis
Caygill, Howard (2005). In: Priebsch, Sara, (ed.), Hultsbruk Ready-maids. Stuttgart, Germany: Akademie Schloss Solitude
Crisis and renewal: Husserl's 'Kaizo' articles 1923-24
Caygill, Howard (2005). In: Banham, Gary, (ed.), Husserl and the logic of experience. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 184-201
Non-messianic political theology in Benjamin's 'On the concept of history'
Caygill, Howard (2005). In: Benjamin, Andrew, (ed.), Walter Benjamin and history. London, U.K.: Continuum, pp 215-226
Critical theory and the new thinking: a preliminary approach
Caygill, Howard (2004). In: Kohlenbach, Margarete, (eds.) and Geuss, Raymond, (eds.), The Early Frankfurt School and Religion. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 145-156
Levinas's political judgement: the 'Esprit' articles 1934-1983
Caygill, Howard (2004). In: Katz, Claire Elise, (ed.), Emmanuel Levinas. Volume 4: Levinas in Practice.. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 85-100
Walter Benjamin's concept of cultural history
Caygill, Howard (2004). In: Ferris, David S., (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp 73-96
The Alexandrian aesthetic
Caygill, Howard (2003). In: Joughin, John J., (eds.) and Malpas, Simon, (eds.), The new aestheticism. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, pp 99-118
Kant's apology for sensibility
Caygill, Howard (2003). In: Jacobs, Brian, (eds.) and Kain, Patrick, (eds.), Essays on Kant's anthropology. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp 164-193
Walter Benjamin
Caygill, Howard (2002). In: Elliott, Anthony, (eds.) and Ray, Larry, (eds.), Key contemporary social theorists. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, pp 65-70
Walter Benjamin and art theory
Caygill, Howard (2002). In: Smith, Paul, (eds.) and Wilde, Carolyn, (eds.), A Companion to Art Theory. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, pp 286-291
Life and aesthetic pleasure
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Rehberg, Andrea, (eds.) and Jones, Rachel, (eds.), The matter of critique : readings in Kant's philosophy. Manchester, U.K.: Clinamen, pp 79-92
Liturgies of fear: biotechnology and culture
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Adam, Barbara, (eds.), Beck, Ulrich, (eds.) and Van Loon, Joost, (eds.), The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory. London, U.K.: Sage Publications, pp 155-164
Reliquary art: Orlan's serial operation
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Gill, Carolyn Bailey, (ed.), Time and the image. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, pp 48-57
Shakespeare's monster of nothing
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Joughin, John J., (ed.), Philosophical Shakespeares. London, U.K.: Routledge, pp 105-114
Survival of nihilism
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Ansell-Pearson, Keith, (eds.) and Morgan, Diane, (eds.), Nihilism now! : monsters of energy. Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan Press, pp 189-197
Surviving the inhuman
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Brewster, Scott, (eds.), Joughin, John J., (eds.), Owen, David, (eds.) and Walker, Richard, (eds.), Inhuman reflections: thinking the limits of the human. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, pp 217-229
The absolute monochrome: a response to Batchelor
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Osborne, Peter, (ed.), From an aesthetic point of view: philosophy, art and the senses. London, U.K.: Serpent's Tail, pp 177-181
The spiritual daylight of the present: Hegel, Blake and the advent of the spirit
Caygill, Howard (2000). In: Banham, Gary, (eds.) and Blake, Charlie, (eds.), Evil spirits: nihilism and the fate of modernity. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, pp 195-201