Howard Caygill

{{Short description|British philosopher}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox philosopher

|name=Howard Caygill

|honorific_prefix=

|birth_date= {{birth year and age|1958}}

|institutions=Kingston University

University of East Anglia

Goldsmiths, University of London

|website=https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-howard-caygill-412/

|main_interests=Political philosophy

20th-century philosophy

Aesthetics

|school_tradition=Continental philosophy

Critical Theory}}

Howard Caygill (born 1958) is a British philosopher.

He has held the position of Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20250307175207/https://www.kingston.ac.uk/faculties/kingston-school-of-art/research-and-innovation/crmep/ Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP)] Kingston University since 2011.{{Cite web|title=Past CRMEP events: Also Sprach Zapata: Philosophy and Resistance, Inaugural Lecture by Howard Caygill|url=https://www.kingston.ac.uk/faculties/kingston-school-of-art/research-and-innovation/crmep/past-crmep-events/}} Previously he had taught at University of East Anglia and Goldsmiths College, University of London.{{Cite web|title=Professor Howard Caygill: About|url=https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-howard-caygill-412/|website=Kingston University}}

He is known for his work on Walter Benjamin, Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Levinas, and Franz Kafka; and concepts such as resistance have influenced fields including political philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory and continental philosophy.

Jay Bernstein has described Caygill as "one of the two or three leading practitioners and exponents of European philosophy in the UK".{{Cite journal|last=Harvey|first=Bo|date=2020|title=Howard Caygill: Force and Understanding: Writings on Philosophy and Resistance|url=https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19323_force-and-understanding-writings-on-philosophy-and-resistance-by-howard-caygill-reviewed-by-bo-harvey/|journal=Marx and Philosophy}}

Caygill is the Literary Executor of the estate of Gillian Rose.{{Cite web|title=Unpublished writings|url=https://gillianrose.org/resources/unpublished-writings/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=Gillian Rose, Philosopher}}