Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward is a political philosopher, best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. 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.

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 1999-2004, and then joined the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, originally located at Middlesex University. He is now a professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University.

Hallward is currently working on a three part project on key philosophers of the political will, Rousseau, Marx, and Auguste Blanqui. 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."