26 Facts About Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose began her teaching career at the University of Sussex.

Gillian Rose worked in the fields of philosophy and sociology.

Gillian Rose's writings include The Melancholy Science, Hegel Contra Sociology, Dialectic of Nihilism, Mourning Becomes the Law, and Paradiso, among others.

Gillian Rose was born in London into a secular Jewish family.

Shortly after her parents divorced, when Gillian Rose was still quite young, her mother married another man, her stepfather, with whom Gillian Rose became close as she drifted from her biological father.

Gillian Rose became well known partly through her critiques of postmodernism and post-structuralism.

Later, in her essay "Of Derrida's Spirit" in Judaism and Modernity, Gillian Rose critiqued Derrida's Of Spirit, arguing that his analysis of Heidegger's relation to Nazism relied in key instances on serious misreadings of Hegel, which allowed both Heidegger and Derrida to evade the importance of political history and modern law.

In 1989, Gillian Rose left Sussex for the University of Warwick when a colleague was unexpectedly promoted over her.

Gillian Rose held her position at Warwick until her death in 1995.

Gillian Rose wrote about her experience of this commission in her memoir Love's Work and in Mourning Becomes the Law and Paradiso.

At a crucial moment in our deliberations on the historical knowledge of the Polish guides, Gillian Rose spoke, out of turn and off the subject, of the nearness of God.

Gillian Rose was suggesting that the anger of these delegates, for the most part Holocaust scholars and rabbis, was a retrospective one that, paradoxically sought the Holocaust past as a safe haven from inquiries of the present conduct of the Jewish people.

Gillian Rose's memoir, Love's Work, detailing her background, maturation as a philosopher, and years-long battle with ovarian cancer, was a bestseller when it was published in 1995.

Gillian Rose's first book, The Melancholy Science, is a text that shows Adorno's most significant contribution to the sociology of culture is a Marxist aesthetic.

Gillian Rose posits that Adorno offers a 'sociology of illusion' that rivals structural Marxism as well as phenomenological sociology and that of the Frankfurt School.

The book sets out Gillian Rose's understanding of Hegel, in particular her view that Hegel's is a 'speculative' rather than a 'dialectical' philosophy.

Gillian Rose's third book, Dialectic of Nihilism, is a reading of post-structuralism through the lens of law.

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays, her fifth book, is a collection of essays in which Gillian Rose tries to work out the relationship between philosophy and Judaism.

Gillian Rose's aim is to explain how and why philosophers turned to Jews and Judaism to evade the dilemmas of modern philosophy, and how and why religious thinkers turned to the same source to evade the dilemmas of a modern faith confronted by the demands of philosophy.

Gillian Rose's last expressly philosophical work, Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation was a posthumous collection of essays.

Nevertheless, Gillian Rose's work has made more explicit inroads among a number of important thinkers, not the least of them Williams, whose revaluation of Hegel in the 1990s has been attributed to Gillian Rose's influence.

Two special issues on Gillian Rose have appeared from scholarly journals.

The first, "The Work of Gillian Rose," appeared in 1998 in volume 9, issue 1 of the journal Women: A Cultural Review.

In 2015 the journal Telos released a special issue on Gillian Rose, gathering responses and critiques to her work from Rowan Williams, John Milbank, Peter Osborne, and Nigel Tubbs.

Gillian Rose's papers are held by Warwick University Library in the Modern Records Centre.

Gillian Rose made a deathbed conversion to Christianity through the Anglican Church.