Gillian Rose 1947 – 1995

Gillian Rose was a British philosopher and social theorist whose work occupied a singular position between Hegel, the Frankfurt School, and post-Nietzschean Continental thought. Her Hegel Contra Sociology defended a speculative reading of Hegel against twentieth-century anti-metaphysical currents, while The Broken Middle argued that philosophy and politics must hold together contradictions that postmodern thinkers were too quick to dissolve. Mourning Becomes the Law and her memoir Love's Work, written in the year of her death from cancer, brought her late thought into the public imagination. She held a chair at Warwick and exerted a wide influence on later British and American Christian and political philosophy.