Dr. Gavin Rae

Gavin Rae is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, as well as an affiliate member of The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, University of Dundee, and the Contemporary Political Theory Research Group, Royal Holloway, University of London. He was previously a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, Egypt where he was also an Andrew Mellow Fellow. He specializes in post-Kantian philosophy with particular emphasis on ethics, ontology, and socio-political philosophy and is the author of multiple books, including 'The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Account' (Edinburgh University Press, 2026); 'Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2024); 'Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory' (Edinburgh University Press, 2020); 'Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics, Bio-Juridicalism' (Edinburgh University Press: 2019); and 'Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition' (Edinburgh University Press: 2019), 'The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (Palgrave Macmillan: 2016), 'Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze' (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), and 'Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being' (Palgrave Macmillan: 2011). He has also coedited the following volumes: 'Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy' (Edinburgh University Press, 2026); 'Philosophy beyond Borders' (Routledge, 2025); 'Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism' (Routledge, 2025); 'Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics' (Routledge, 2021), 'The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics' (Routledge: 2019) and 'Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives' (Routledge: 2018).