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FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep Philosophy MAs “OUR AGE IS THE GENUINE AGE OF CRITICISM TO WHICH EVERYTHING MUST SUBMIT.” IMMANUEL KANT

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Faculty oF arts and social sciences

www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep

Philosophy MAs

“ O u r a g e i s t h e g e n u i n e

a g e O f c r i t i c i s m t O w h i c h

e v e ry t h i n g m u s t s u b m i t. ”

i m m a n u e l K a n t

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Philosophy MAs

About the Philosophy MAsOur philosophy courses are taught by internationally recognised specialists at the dynamic Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), which, since its inception in 1994, has developed an international reputation for teaching and research in post-Kantian European philosophy, characterised by a strong emphasis on broad cultural and intellectual contexts and a distinctive sense of social and political engagement. In the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, 65 per cent of its research activity was judged ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. The CRMEP moved to Kingston University in 2010.

Programme structureOur three 12-month MA programmes all draw on a common reference to the foundational texts of the modern ‘continental’ approach to philosophy by Kant and his successors, but focus on different aspects of this shared field. Each programme begins with a specific core module, and then follows a distinctive line of inquiry. Modern European Philosophy MA begins with Kant’s first critique (of pure reason), and continues through Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to recent work in French and Italian philosophy. Philosophy & Contemporary Critical Theory MA begins with Kant’s second critique (of practical reason) and continues through Hegel and Marx to consider the legacy of psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School, French anti-humanism and recent Italian philosophy. Aesthetics & Art Theory MA begins with Kant’s third critique (of judgement), considers the major philosophical approaches to the arts that developed in its wake (from Romantic to modernist), and assesses current debates about the status of contemporary art. Each programme has the same basic shape: students take four taught modules from a range of options and then write a 15,000-word dissertation. Class sizes range from 10 to 20 students.

The Contemporary European Philosophy MA (CEP) is an 18-month programme taught jointly with the Université de Paris 8 (Saint-Denis). Students spend semester 1 in London at Kingston, and semester 2 in Paris – the dissertation may be written in English or French in London or Paris. This MA is organised around two compulsory modules. One, in the first semester at Kingston, aims to introduce the problems of temporality and epochality implied by the designation ‘contemporary’ and recent debates concerning the question of ‘European’ philosophy in its relations with ‘other’ or non-European thought. As far as possible, texts are studied in their original language: French, English, Italian and German, with English or French translation where available. The ‘special study’ module involves guided independent work on a major contemporary philosopher and is taught across the year – first at Kingston, then Paris. Students also choose option modules at both Kingston and Paris 8. In addition, students are offered free language tuition in French at both Kingston and Paris 8.

CareersWe expect our graduates to progress to research degrees in European philosophy and critical theory, or to careers in media/journalism, publishing, the arts, education and public policy.

Below are some examples of recent graduate destinations:• Tom Ackers: studying on The Independent Study Programme at the

Whitney Museum, New York• Michael Sperlinger: assistant director of the arts agency Lux (London)• Marta Kuzma: director of the Office of Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo)• Louise Hanson: PhD at Brasenose College, Oxford• Anda Klavina: curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga)• Kate Parker: director of City Projects (London)• Diarmuid Hester: PhD in English at the University of Sussex• Cécile Malaspina: PhD at the University of Paris VII• Ian Cuslidge: computer-game designer• Pavel Khazanov: won full-funded place in Comparative Literature at the

University of Pennsylvania• Yesim Yaprak Yildiz: researcher with Amnesty International in London• Dustin McWherter: lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, the American

University of Beirut• Paul Pieroni: curator at Space Studios (London)• Alastair Morgan: lecturer in mental health at University of Nottingham• Stewart Martin: senior lecturer in modern European philosophy, aesthetics

and art theory at Middlesex University after completing a PhD at the CRMEP• Dr Andrew McGettigan: freelance researcher and now a leading

commentator on UK Higher Education, completed a PhD at the CRMEP.

Why study philosophy at Kingston?• We offer the largest and most successful set of MA programmes of their

kind in the UK, attended by a diverse and enthusiastic group of students.• You will benefit from the input of versatile and internationally recognised

teaching staff with a wide range of interests, projects and publications.• The MAs are based at the UK’s leading Centre for Research in Modern

European Philosophy, renowned not only for its academic rigour, but also for its lively and inclusive graduate community.

• You can choose from a wide range of option modules, balanced by a shared central core of texts, concepts and problems.

• The MAs offer a pathway to related doctoral research at the CRMEP or other institutions.

• You will be based at a university that combines an inclusive approach to education and ambitious investment in advanced-level humanities teaching and research.

• You will have easy access to London’s research libraries and other research events, plus proximity to French, German and other European universities and libraries.

• Teaching includes intensive one-to-one tutorials.• In addition to class contact and individual tutorial time, you will be

assigned a personal tutor who will offer academic advice and guidance.

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What you will studyAesthetics & Art Theory MA www.kingston.ac.uk/pgaestheticsThis MA is widely recognised as one of the most significant and innovative courses in its field, and is now one of the most successful philosophy masters programmes in the country. Unlike most courses on art theory, this programme grounds the problems and concepts in the appropriate philosophical context. The MA will prepare you for a range of careers in the arts, education and public policy; it is particularly highly regarded in the arts. It also provides an ideal preparation for doctoral research across the humanities and social sciences.

Course contentThe programme combines a grounding in philosophical aesthetics in the modern European tradition with study of contemporary art theory. Following a compulsory module on Kant and the aesthetic tradition, you will choose three further modules from a range of options. Canonical authors studied include Adorno, Derrida, de Duve, Duchamp, Greenberg, Heidegger, Kant and Merleau-Ponty. The course engages with some of the most influential texts in modern and contemporary art theory – from Kant and Schiller via Greenberg and Adorno to Rancière and Deleuze – framed in terms of fundamental conceptual problems inherited from the German idealists. It provides a clear overview of philosophical approaches to modern art, distinguishing between ‘aesthetic’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Modernist’ problematics. Modules include the study of works by prominent contemporary authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh and many others.

Core modulesKant and the Aesthetic Tradition provides an introduction to the tradition of philosophical aesthetics through a detailed study of its founding text, Kant’s 1790 Critique of the Power of Judgement. After an introductory week on Hume’s Of the Standard of Taste, a detailed study of Part 1 of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement (main topics: judgement, subjective universality, taste, the beautiful, the sublime, genius) will be followed by a discussion of its reception by Nietzsche and Heidegger on the one hand and by 20th-century formalist thinkers on the other.

The Philosophy Dissertation aims to provide an opportunity for intensive and detailed research-based study (12,000 to 15,000 words) of your chosen topic under the guidance of an appropriate supervisor. You will be required to attend research skills seminars on constructing a proposal, editing and composition, referencing, and online and electronic research methods; you will also make an oral presentation of your dissertation proposal.

Option modules• Art Theory: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary• Romantic Philosophy of Art• Plasticity and Form• Critique, Practice, Power• Freud and Lacan• German Critical Theory• Hegel and his Legacy• Kant and his Legacy• Marx and his Legacy• Nietzsche and Heidegger• Recent French Philosophy• Recent Italian Philosophy• Topics in Modern European Philosophy

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. For more information on the modules offered, please visit our course webpage.

Philosophy & Contemporary Critical Theory MAwww.kingston.ac.uk/pgphilosophytheoryThis MA course is widely recognised as one of the most innovative in its field, and is now one of the largest philosophy MA programmes in the country. Unlike most courses on contemporary critical theory (based in literary or cultural studies departments), this programme grounds the problems and concepts in the appropriate philosophical context. The MA provides an ideal preparation for doctoral research across the humanities and social sciences. It will also prepare you for a wide range of careers in education, the arts, politics and public policy.

Course contentThis programme offers an opportunity to explore the philosophical aspects and significance of contemporary critical theory – as understood on the programme, critical theory refers to those traditions of 20th-century European thought within which philosophy opens out onto critical diagnoses of the historical present. You will study the two main traditions of critical theory – the Frankfurt School and French anti-humanism – and their background in Kant, Hegel, Marx and in 19th-century European philosophy more generally. The course also includes work by thinkers who have become influential only in the last two decades – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Antonio Negri and Jacques Rancière.

Core modulesCritique, Practice, Power gives a historical and philosophical introduction to the two main 20th-century traditions of critical theory: the Frankfurt School and French anti-humanism. After several works devoted to Kant’s conception of freedom and practical philosophy, the module focuses on competing conceptions of critique, practice and empowerment in Marx, Lukács, Adorno and Horkheimer, Althusser, Foucault and one or two more-recent thinkers (eg Badiou or Rancière).

The Philosophy Dissertation aims to provide an opportunity for intensive and detailed research-based study (12,000 to 15,000 words) of your chosen topic under the guidance of an appropriate supervisor. You will be required to attend research skills seminars on constructing a proposal, editing and composition, referencing, and online and electronic research methods; you will also make an oral presentation of your dissertation proposal.

Option modules• German Critical Theory• Hegel and his Legacy• Freud and Lacan• Marx and his Legacy• Art Theory: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary• Kant and his Legacy• Kant and the Aesthetic Tradition• Nietzsche and Heidegger• Plasticity and Form• Recent French Philosophy• Romantic Philosophy of Art• Topics in Modern European Philosophy

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. For more information on the modules offered, please visit our course webpage.

“ One is not born a woman, but becomes one.”

Simone de Beauvoir

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Modern European Philosophy MAwww.kingston.ac.uk/pgphilosophymodernThis MA course is widely recognised as one of the most significant courses in its field, and is one of the most challenging and stimulating philosophy masters programmes in the UK. The MA is based on a focused study of the fundamental texts of the modern European philosophical tradition. It provides an ideal preparation for doctoral research in philosophy or related fields in the humanities and social sciences. It will also prepare you for a wide range of careers in education, the arts, politics and public policy.

Course contentThis programme offers an opportunity to study 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy in a structured way, concentrating on the interpretation and analysis of key texts. It pays particular attention to the influence of Kant’s philosophy and to the debates that structured the development of post-Kantian philosophy in both Germany and France. The programme begins with a foundation module on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and adopts Kant’s critical philosophy as a historical and conceptual basis for the understanding of subsequent European philosophy as a whole. Other major authors studied include Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and Badiou. You will take four taught modules and prepare a dissertation on a topic of your choice.

Core modulesKant and his Legacy will provide you with a grounding in Kant’s philosophy as a historical and philosophical basis for the understanding of subsequent European philosophy through the detailed study of the Critique of Pure Reason and its competing interpretations. The module will focus on the structure of Kant’s philosophical project (transcendental philosophy and critical metaphysics), the configuration of its central epistemological concepts (intuition, understanding, reason, imagination, analytic/synthetic, analytic/ dialectic, antinomy, etc) and the history of its reception.

The Philosophy Dissertation aims to provide an opportunity for intensive and detailed, research-based study (12,000 to 15,000 words) of your chosen topic under the guidance of an appropriate supervisor. You will be required to attend research skills seminars on constructing a proposal, editing and composition, referencing, and online and electronic research methods; you will also make an oral presentation of your dissertation proposal.

Option modules• Hegel and his Legacy• Nietzsche and Heidegger• Recent French Philosophy• Topics in Modern European Philosophy• Art Theory: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary• Critique, Practice, Power• Freud and Lacan• German Critical Theory• Kant and the Aesthetic Tradition• Marx and his Legacy• Plasticity and Form• Romantic Philosophy of Art

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. For more information on the modules offered, please visit our course webpage.

Contemporary European Philosophy MAwww.kingston.ac.uk/pgphilosophycontemporaryThis programme offers a unique international and inter-linguistic orientation in current philosophical work. It is taught by leading figures in the field of contemporary European philosophy based at two of its most significant and productive institutions: Kingston University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), and University of Paris 8 (Saint-Denis). Kingston’s CRMEP now hosts the largest single concentration of people working in modern European philosophy in the UK, and is arguably the country’s most stimulating and prestigious provider of dedicated MA teaching in this field; while the Department of Philosophy at Paris 8, established by Michel Foucault in the immediate aftermath of May 1968, has attracted many of the most original and inventive French thinkers of the day, including Deleuze, Rancière, Balibar and Badiou – today, Paris 8 remains a lively and inventive place, mindful of its unique legacy and marked by a distinctive political culture. Full-time students spend the autumn semester at Kingston’s CRMEP, and the spring semester at Paris 8. As a joint European programme, this MA is a little longer than a standard British MA. Taken over 18 months (from September to March), it involves more specialised study and a more extensive MA dissertation.

Course contentThe programme is organised around a compulsory core module, Contemporary European Philosophies, taught in the first semester at Kingston. Most of the material will be drawn from work published in the past decade or so and will be read as far as possible in the original language of publication (mainly French, English, German and Italian – where necessary, translations in English or French will accompany the original).You will choose your other autumn modules from the full range of philosophy modules offered at Kingston, and choose your spring modules from a list offered at Paris 8. You will also take a tailormade ‘special study’ module, based on close engagement with a major contemporary thinker of your choice. Coursework for Kingston modules must be written in English; coursework for Paris modules can be written in English or French. You will have the choice of writing your 20,000-word dissertation in London or Paris, in English or French. Preparation of the dissertation lasts around eight months and involves research skills workshops, group tutorials and individual supervision.

Core modulesCEP Special Study provides an opportunity for independent research-based study of a chosen topic under the guidance of an appropriate supervisor. Preparation for the module begins in the autumn, at Kingston, and the coursework is completed in late spring, in Paris.

Contemporary European Philosophies involves the guided study of major works of contemporary European philosophy, with a focus on themes of time and temporality, broadly understood. The texts will be drawn from the past couple of decades. You will analyse texts that explore the tension between historical and political time and experiential temporality, and focus on concepts such as epochality, the event, historical time, ‘kairos’, messianism, memory, anticipation and revolution. Authors studied may include thinkers like Agamben, Badiou, Cixous, Derrida, Habermas, Negri, Stiegler and Sloterdijk, studied in the original language (French, German and Italian) and in English translations where available (and French translations for the German and Italian texts). An adequate reading knowledge of French will be a requirement.

The Philosophy Dissertation provides an opportunity for intensive and detailed research-based study (20,000 words) of your chosen topic under the guidance of an appropriate supervisor. You will be required to attend research skills seminars on constructing a proposal, editing and composition, referencing, and online and electronic research methods; you will also make an oral presentation of your dissertation proposal.

Option modulesYou will choose from the wide range of modules offered in the other philosophy MAs at Kingston University (see left), and from the full range of modules in the Paris Département de Philosophie, University of Paris 8, which change from year to year. For more information, please visit the course webpage.

“ The doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by people and that it is essential to educate the educator himself.” Karl Marx

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Teaching staffEric Alliez is professor of contemporary French philosophy and also teaches at the University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis. Previously the chair of aesthetics at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna (2000–03), he has recently completed the third and final volume of his ‘aesthetic project’ on 20th-century French art, Défaire l’image (Undoing the Image). He is known internationally for his work on the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde and philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. He has co-ordinated the translation of two of Guattari’s books into English, along with an accompanying volume of critical essays.

Étienne Balibar holds the Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University; he is also visiting professor at Columbia University, New York. His books translated into English include: Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser) (1965), On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976) and Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, Classes, Ideas (1994), The Philosophy of Marx (1995), Spinoza and Politics (1998), Politics and the Other Scene (2002) and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004). Forthcoming in 2014 are: Citizen Subject, Extreme Violence and the Problem of Civility (the Wellek Library Lectures) and The Proposition of Equaliberty.

Howard Caygill worked in the History Department at Goldsmiths before joining the CRMEP in January 2010. His research interests include contemporary European philosophy, recent Italian philosophy, Kant, ethics, theories of resistance, Benjamin, Levinas, Kafka, philosophy and psychiatry. He is the author of Levinas and the Political, Walter Benjamin, A Kant Dictionary, and On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance.

Peter Hallward taught in the French Department at King’s College London (1999–2004) and joined the CRMEP in 2005. His research interests include political philosophy, recent and contemporary French philosophy (especially Sartre, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, Rancière), contemporary critical theory, politics and postcolonial theory. His books include Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment, Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, and Absolutely Postcolonial. He is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective and he is currently finishing a book entitled The Will of the People.

Catherine Malabou worked in the Philosophy Department at Paris X and as a visiting lecturer in several universities in the US before joining the CRMEP in January 2010. Her research interests include contemporary French philosophy, Hegel, philosophy and science, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, plasticity, sexual difference, neuroscience, life and affect. Her books include The Future of Hegel, What Should We Do With Our Brain?, Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing, Changing Difference and The New Wounded. She is currently working on a book about the meaning of life as a political and scientific concept.

Peter Osborne’s research interests are in Kant, Hegel, Marx and first-generation Frankfurt critical theory (Adorno and Benjamin); temporality and philosophy of history; transdisciplinarity; abstraction; aesthetics, art theory and cultural theory. His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (2005), Marx (2005), El arte más allá de la estética: Ensayos filosóficos sobre el arte contemporáneo (2010) and Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013). A member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy since 1983, he was also principal investigator on the AHRC-funded research project, Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities (with Eric Alliez and Stella Sandford), 2011–13.

Stella Sandford is reader in modern European philosophy. She is one of the leading feminist philosophers in Britain and works on philosophy of sex and gender, 20th-century French philosophy and psychoanalysis. Her book Plato and Sex was published in 2010 and she has recently completed an English edition of Étienne Balibar’s book on John Locke, Identité et difference, as well as working on the transdisciplinarity of the concept of gender and on the relation between feminst theory and philosophy. She is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective.

Research in philosophyResearch areas related to these courses (and to the work undertaken at the CRMEP more generally) include:• modern European philosophy from the late 18th century to the present;• Kant, Hegel and German idealism;• Marx and Marxism;• Frankfurt School of critical theory;• philosophies of time and history;• conceptions of transdisciplinarity;• aesthetics, art theory and cultural theory;• philosophical and political approaches to contemporary art;• contemporary French philosophy (Sartre, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari,

Badiou and Rancière);• recent Italian political philosophy (Agamben, Negri and Virno);• globalisation, postcolonial theory, contemporary politics;• contemporary philosophies of sex and gender;• philosophical approaches to psychoanalysis; and• philosophies of the brain.

Research seminars, conferences and workshopsCRMEP organises regular research seminars and two or three conferences or workshops each year. Examples of recent events are shown below.• 10 public lectures on philosophy, politics and the arts in collaboration with

the London Graduate School, Kingston University and Art & Philosophy at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London

• ‘Psyche and Philosophy’, one-day conference organised with Université de Paris 8 – with Howard Caygill, Philippe Cabestan and Jean Oury.

• ‘Performance and Labour: A Symposium’, organised in conjunction with the Department of Art History at University College London (UCL) – speakers included Randy Martin (New York University)

• ‘Time and Temporality, After Phenomenology’, one-day conference with Catherine Malabou (CRMEP), Peter Osborne (CRMEP), Jean-Michel Salanskis (University of Paris X)

• One-day conference on Foucault’s recently translated Government of Self and Others, and a two-day conference on ‘Transdisciplinarity in French Thought, 1945 to the Present: From Structure to Rhizome’ – with Peter Osborne, Etienne Balibar, Stella Sandford, Guillaume Colett, Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Alain de Libera, François Cusset, Michèle Riot-Sarcey, Andrew Barry, and Éric Alliez

Recent seminars have welcomed speakers such as: Giorgio Agamben (University of Paris VIII); Barbara Cassin (CNRS); Roberto Esposito (University of Naples); Donna Haraway (University of California, Santa Cruz); Kojin Karatani (Tokyo University); Quentin Meillassoux (École Normale Supérieure); Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Slavoj Zizek (Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana).

For further information about CRMEP, please visit www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep

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LocationLocated beside the River Thames, Kingston University is within the London travel-pass zone. Easily accessible from surrounding areas such as Surrey and Middlesex, its local train stations (Kingston; Surbiton) are also only 25 minutes from London Waterloo.

Further informationContact detailsPlease contact the Faculty’s Admissions Office with any further queries.

Admissions Office (Postgraduate Courses)Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesKingston UniversityPenrhyn RoadKingston upon ThamesSurrey KT1 2EE

T: +44 (0)20 8417 2361/2378F: +44 (0)20 8417 2292E: [email protected]

www.kingston.ac.uk/postgraduate

Philosophy MAsEntry requirementsApplicants should normally hold a good (upper-second or first-class honours, or the equivalent) undergraduate degree in philosophy or related subject (including but not limited to art history, fine art, gender studies, history, humanities, literature, politics, etc). Applicants with other qualifications will be considered on an individual basis. Applicants for MA Contemporary European Philosophy are required to have a good knowledge of French (UK A-level or equivalent).

International studentsAll non-UK applicants must meet our English language requirements. For this course it is IELTS of 6.5 overall, with special conditions for students who require a Tier-4 student visa. Please make sure you read our full guidance about English language requirements on our course webpage, which includes details of other qualifications that will be considered.

Attendance/deliveryThe approximate annual schedule (for a full-time student) is as follows:• Late September: autumn term classes begin• Early January: coursework for autumn term courses due• Late January: spring term classes begin• Early May: coursework for spring term courses due• Early June: presentation of MA dissertation proposal• Late September (all MAs except CEP) or March (MA CEP): submission of

MA dissertation

DurationMA CEP: 18 months full time or 3 years part time Other MAs: 1 year full time or 2 years part time

AssessmentWork will be assessed through essays, written assignments, presentations and a dissertation.

Related coursesPhilosophy & Political Economy MACriticism, Literature, Theory MA

Student feedbackTorbjørn Eftestøl“As with many of my fellow philosophy students, I chose Kingston University because the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy is located here. After studying here for a few months, I would not hesitate in recommending it to anyone interested in this subject. The staff, who are internationally renowned philosophers, are brilliant and enthusiastic. And not only do they show enormous competence and fervour for their teaching and research, but they are also very welcoming and warm people. My fellow students are from all over the world, with diverse interests and experiences, which is something that contributes a great deal to the exciting, friendly and open-minded atmosphere I find here at CRMEP.”

Cecile Malaspina“If you are thinking of studying modern and contemporary philosophy, the CRMEP is one of the most rewarding places to do so. Besides the many UK students who find their way there, the number of overseas students pays tribute to the relevance of international philosophical research going on at this institution. I always felt inspired and motivated by the tutors and fellow students I encountered, and I have maintained an ongoing connection with many of the people I met through the CRMEP. The standard of work expected of you may initially leave you short of breath, but your achievements will feel like genuine ones. The programme will challenge you to push beyond your comfort zone, and to chart your own path down what Hegel called ‘the highway of despair’.”

Dr Luke Skrebowski“Studying for both an MA and a PhD at the CRMEP has proved central to my intellectual development and strongly informed the character of my ongoing work. The quality and commitment of the Centre’s staff and the rigour and depth of their teaching are exemplary.”