Author: Patrick O'Connor

Patrick O’Connor is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Nottingham Trent University. He researches European philosophy, with special reference to phenomenology, 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, and early to mid-20th-century French philosophy. He has published two books:
Atheism Reclaimed, on atheism and existentialism, and
Derrida: Profanations on phenomenology, ethics, and the work of Jacques Derrida. He has written for
The Conversation, Unknown magazine,
Open Democracy, and
3am magazine. He is currently working on a project that investigates the intersection between philosophy and literature in the work of Cormac McCarthy.
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