Introduction
Jonathan Rée (born 1948) is a British freelance historian and philosopher from Bradford. Educated at Sussex University and then at Oxford, Rée was previously a Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex University, but gave up a teaching career in order to "have more time to think".
He has written for the New Humanist, Evening Standard, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Lingua Franca, London Review of Books, Prospect, The Independent, the Times Literary Supplement, and Rising East. He is frequently a guest in radio programmes such as Journeys In Thought and In Our Time. In the early 1990s he presented a seven-part Channel 4 TV series (produced and broadcast in the UK) Talking Liberties, which featured Rée in conversation with a number of thinkers, including Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, and Edward Said. Rée was a founding member of the British journal and group Radical Philosophy.
Select bibliography
- Descartes, Philosophy and its Past (1974, Allen Lane) ISBN 978-0713904901
- Proletarian Philosophers (1984, Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198272618
- Philosophical Tales (1987, Routledge) ISBN 978-0416426205
- Heidegger (1999, Routledge)ISBN 0-415-92396-4
- Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader (1998, John Wiley & Sons) ISBN 978-0631201991
- I See a Voice, (2000, Metropolitan Books) ISBN 978-0805062557
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy (2005, Routledge) ASIN B017QCB1VG
- Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English (2019, Allen Lane) ISBN 978-0713999334
- A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance (2020, Yale University Press) ISBN 978-0300245660