Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward (born 29 April 1968) is a political philosopher, best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.^[1] He has also published works on post-colonialism and contemporary Haiti. Hallward is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy and a contributing editor to Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Peter Hallward
Born	29 April 1968
Education
Alma mater	Oxford University (BA) Yale University (PhD)
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Institutions	Kingston University King's College London Middlesex University
Main interests	Political Philosophy, French Philosophy, Critical Theory, Political Will, Postcolonialism, Existentialism

After completing his PhD at Yale University in French and African-American studies, Hallward became a lecturer, and then reader, of French philosophy and literature at King's College London from 1999 to 2004. He then joined the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, which relocated from Middlesex University to Kingston University. He is now a professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University.^[2]

Work

In 2016, Hallward was working on a three part project on key philosophers of political will: Rousseau, Blanqui, and Marx. He is simultaneously working on a larger book entitled 'The Will of the People,' which will "develop and defend a notion of democratic political will, understood as a rational, deliberate, and autonomous capacity for collective self-determination."^[2]

Bibliography

Books

• Hallward, Peter (2001), Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-6126-1.
• Hallward, Peter (2003), Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0-8166-3461-0.
• Hallward, Peter (2006), Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, London: Verso Books, ISBN 1-84467-555-6.
• Hallward, Peter (2007), Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment, London: Verso Books, ISBN 978-1-84467-106-9.

Edited volumes

• Hallward, Peter, ed. (2004), "Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy", Continuum, London, ISBN 0-8264-5907-2.
• Hallward, Peter, and Knox Peden, eds. (2012) Concept and Form, vol. 1: Selections from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse. London: Verso, ISBN 1-84467-872-5.
• Hallward, Peter, and Knox Peden, eds. (2012) Concept and Form, vol. 2: Interviews and essays on the Cahiers pour l'Analyse. London: Verso, ISBN 1-84467-873-3.
• Hallward, Peter, and Philippe Le Goff, eds. (2018) The Blanqui Reader: Political Writings, 1830–1880 London: Verso, ISBN 9781786635013.

Journal articles and book chapters

• Hallward, Peter (August 2003). "The One or the Other?". Angelaki. 8 (2).
• Hallward, Peter (May–June 2004). "Option Zero in Haiti". New Left Review. II (27).
• Hallward, Peter (22 February 2007). "An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide". London Review of Books. 29 (4).
• Hallward, Peter (2010), "'Communism of the Intellect, Communism of the Will'", in Douzinas, Costas; Žižek, Slavoj (eds.), The Idea of Communism, London: Verso, pp. 111–130
• Hallward, Peter (2011), "The Will of the People: Dialectical Voluntarism and the Subject of Politics", in Elliott, Jane; Attridge, Derek (eds.), Theory after 'Theory', London: Routledge, pp. 90–104
• Hallward, Peter (2017). "Concentration or Representation: The Struggle for Popular Sovereignty". Cogent Arts & Humanities. 4 (4): 1–16. doi:10.1080/23311983.2017.1390916.
• Hallward, Peter (2022). "The Will of the People and the Struggle for Mass Sovereignty: A Preliminary Outline" (PDF). Crisis & Critique. 9 (2): 142–219.
• Hallward, Peter (2023), "'The Most Absolute Authority': Rousseau and the Tensions of Popular Sovereignty", in Harris, Neal; Bosseau, Denis; Pintobtang, Ployjai; Brown, Owen (eds.), Rousseau Today: Interdisciplinary Essays, Political Philosophy and Public Purpose, Cham: Springer, pp. 43–82, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-29243-9_3, ISBN 978-3-031-29242-2

Translations

• Badiou, Alain (2001), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, London: Verso Books, ISBN 1-85984-297-6.