Peter Hallward (born 29 April 1968) is a political philosopher, best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.
After completing his PhD at Yale University in French and African-American studies, Hallward became a lecturer, and then reader, of French philosophy and literature at King's College London from 1999 to 2004.
He is now a professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University.
[2] In 2016, Hallward was working on a three part project on key philosophers of political will: Rousseau, Blanqui, and Marx.
He is simultaneously working on a larger book entitled 'The Will of the People,' which will "develop and defend a notion of democratic political will, understood as a rational, deliberate, and autonomous capacity for collective self-determination.