Knox Peden

Knox Peden is Senior Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Flinders University. He is the author of Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze (2014) and, with Stephen Gaukroger, French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2020).

Works By Knox Peden

Philosophy in Troublous Times
I started composing this review during the peak of the bushfires in January. I returned to complete it as the coronavirus pandemic settled into its critical phase. The globalising, unifying elements of such crises are palpable, and resonate with H...
25 May. 2020
Mushburgers: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
‘The wonder of Barbarian Days is to provide us with a literary experience that is not a stand in for other experiences, that is not an allegory of effort and victory and disappointment and loss that memoir culture has conditioned us to expect.’
11 Feb. 2016
The abstractions of history: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The twin pillars of Piketty’s return to political economy are articulated as a pair of twin needs: the need for big data and for the long view. Zeitgeist or conjuncture, take your pick: Capital in the Twenty-First Century is central to it. But it
22 July. 2014

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Knox Peden

Works By Knox Peden

Philosophy in Troublous Times

Mushburgers: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

The abstractions of history: Capital in the Twenty-First Century