Chris O’Kane

Areas of interest

Humanism, anti-humanism, negative humanism, and critical theories of crisis.

Education

• PhD, Philosophy, University of Sussex
• MA, History, University of Sussex
• BA, Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College

Biography

Chris O’Kane recently completed his PhD in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He specializes in social and political philosophy and continental philosophy, with a particular focus on Marx, Marxisms and Critical Theory. He has taught at the University of Sussex and the University of the Arts London and his work has appeared in "Diskurs, Studies in Social and Political Thought and Marx" and "Philosophy Review of Books." He is currently writing a book on social constitution and social domination in Marx, Hegelian-Marxism and the New German Reading of Marx as well as several articles that develop points from his PhD thesis. He is also editing the selected writings of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and working on a translation of Ingo Elbe’s "Marx im Westen."