Jeremy Weate

Infobox_Philosopher
region = Western Philosophy
era = Contemporary philosophy
color = #B0C4DE

name = Jeremy Weate
birth = 1969, England
death =
school_tradition = Existential phenomenology
main_interests = Space, Race, Cultural theory
influences = Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Lefebvre, Levinas
influenced =N.A.
notable_ideas = " Desire/reason/spirit [are] embodied and non-hierarchical responses to the world which exists before us"

Jeremy Weate was born in Wheaton Aston. He studied philosophy at the University of Hull, the University of Liège and the University of Warwick, graduating with a PhD in philosophy from Warwick in 1998. His PhD thesis was "Phenomenology and Difference: the Body, Architecture and Race".

Jeremy Weate is the author of the best-selling children's book "A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy", which was published by Dorling Kindersley in 1998 and translated into 9 languages. He is a philosopher and consultant. He writes a popular and sometimes controversial blog on his experiences and reflections while working in Nigeria. He is also the Managing Director of Lagos' first online guide: Lagos Live. With his partner Bibi Bakare-Yusuf he runs a publishing company in Nigeria called Cassava Republic Press. His interests are in research into contemporary African cultures, photography and film-making. He is working on two long term writing projects, on memory and invisibiity.

Bibliography

* Jeremy Weate "A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy" DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 1998 ISBN 0-789-43074-6

External links

* [http://www.bakareweate.com/ Bakareweate]
* [http://www.naijablog.blogspot.com/ Naijablog]
* [http://www.lagoslive.com/ Lagos Live]
* [http://www.cassavarepublic.biz/ Cassava Republic]