Jonathan Rée

Jonathan Rée (born 1948)[citation needed] is a British freelance historian and philosopher from Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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,[1] and Rising East.

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.

[3] His 1999 book, I See a Voice, reviewed in the Evening Standard, examined historical and philosophical questions about sign language.

[4] Rée was a founding member of the British journal and group Radical Philosophy.