Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose ( born September 20, 1947 in London, † 9 December 1995 Coventry) was a British philosopher and sociologist.

Born in 1947 as Gillian Stone, she grew up as the daughter of a non-practicing Jewish family in West London and studied at the University of Oxford, at Columbia University and the Free University Berlin. The name Rose chose at the age of 16 years. As an academic, she was active in the Polish Commission for the future of Auschwitz. At the age of 48 years, she died in 1995 a two-year severe cancer suffering they thematized The labor of love in her autobiographical narrative. On his deathbed, she converted to Christianity in the Anglican Church.

Her academic career began with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno, supervised by Leszek Kolakowski. She then taught as a lecturer ( Reader) in the Faculty of European Studies at the University of Sussex and finally as Professor of Social and Political Theory ( Social and Political Thought ) at the University of Warwick (1989 to 1995).

A central role in their thinking took a modernity and its aporias. In this context emerged the book on Hegel and their polemics against the postmodern French thinkers, especially Derrida and Foucault.

Writings (selection )

• The Melancholy Science. An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1978 )
• Hegel Contra Sociology (1981 )
• Dialectic of Nihilism: Poststructuralism and Law (1984 )
• Judaism and Modernity (1993 )
• Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life (1995 ) dt: The labor of love. Kunstmann, Munich 1996, inter alia; ISBN 3-596-14592-9