Gillian Rose
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About
Social philosopher and critic of neo-Kantianism and post-modernism. She was known as a forceful defendant of Hegel's speculative thought.
Before Fame
She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford. She was inspired by her Philosophy professor Jean Austin.
Trivia
Her dissertation was on Theodor W. Adorno and was supervised by Leszek Kolakowski. She taught at the University of Warwick from 1989 until 1995.
Family Life
She had one sister, two half-sisters, and one half-brother. She converted to Christianity on her deathbed.
Associated With
She knew she would become a philosopher when she read Pensées by Blaise Pascal and Plato's The Republic at age 17.