Knox Peden
Knox Peden is Senior Lecturer in European Enlightenment Studies at the University of Queensland, where he teaches in the Advanced Humanities Programme in Western Civilisation. He is the author of Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze (Stanford, 2014) and, with Stephen Gaukroger, French Philosophy: A very short introduction (Oxford, 2020). Among other venues, his writings have also appeared in Modern Intellectual History, History & Theory, and the Sydney Review of Books.
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