University of East Anglia 20th-century philosophy Howard Caygill (born 1958) is a British philosopher.
He has held the position of Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University since 2011.
[2] 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".
[3] Caygill is the Literary Executor of the estate of Gillian Rose.