Jonathan Rée (born 1948) is a British freelance

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and philosopher from Bradford. Educated at

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and then at

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, Rée was previously a professor of philosophy at

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, but gave up a teaching career in order to "have more time to think". He has written for the New Humanist, ''

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''., He is frequently a guest in radio programmes such as ''

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''. In the early 1990s he presented a seven-part

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TV series (produced and broadcast in the UK) ''Talking Liberties'', which featured Rée in conversation with a number of thinkers, including Jacques Derrida,

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, and

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. Rée was a founding member of the British journal and group '' Radical Philosophy''.,

Bibliography

* ''Descartes, Philosophy and its Past'' (1974, Allen Lane) * ''Proletarian Philosophers'' (1984, Oxford University Press) * ''Philosophical Tales'' (1987, Routledge) * ''Philosophy and its Past'' (1978, Humanities Press) * ''Heidegger'' (1999, Routledge) * ''Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader'' (1998, John Wiley & Sons) * ''I See a Voice'', (2000, Metropolitan Books) * ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy'' (2005, Routledge) * ''Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English'' (2019, Allen Lane) * ''A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance'' (2020, Yale University Press)

Critical studies and reviews of Rée's work

;A schoolmaster's war *

External links

Radical Philosophy – Jonathan Rée archive

References

1948 births Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the University of Sussex Descartes scholars English essayists English male non-fiction writers English historians English philosophers Heidegger scholars Historians of philosophy Kierkegaard scholars Living people Philosophy academics Philosophy teachers Philosophy writers Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-philosopher-stub