Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University.
Research
Article
Osborne, Peter (2010) Infinite exchange: the social ontology of the photographic image.
3 Philosophy of Photography, 1(1), pp. 59-68. ISSN (print) 2040-3682
Osborne, Peter (2010) A sudden topicality: Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis.4 Radical philosophy(160), pp. 19-26. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (2009) An image of romanticism - fragment and project: from Schlegel's 'Athenaeum Fragments' to LeWitt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art'.5 Verksted #11: Sol LeWitt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art': manuscript and draft materials 1968-69., pp. 5-27. ISSN (print) 1503-8467
Osborne, Peter (2008) Marx and the philosophy of time.6 Radical philosophy(147), pp. 15-22. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (2007) Neo-classic: Alain Badiou's Being and Event.7 Radical philosophy(142), pp. 19-29. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (2006) The dreambird of experience: Utopia, possibility, boredom.8 Radical philosophy(137), pp. 36-44. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (2006) Whoever speaks of culture speaks of administration as well.9 Cultural Studies, 20(1), pp. 33-47. ISSN (print) 0950-2386
Osborne, Peter (2005) On comparability: Kant and the possibility of comparative studies.10 Boundary 2, 32(2), pp. 3-22. ISSN (print) 0190-3659
Osborne, Peter (2004) Art beyond aesthetics: philosophical criticism, art history and contemporary art.11 Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians, 27(4), pp. 651-670. ISSN (print) 0141-6790
Osborne, Peter (2004) The reproach of abstraction.12 Radical philosophy(127), pp. 21-28. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (2003) Interpreting the world - September 11, cultural criticism and the intellectual Left.13 Radical philosophy(117), pp. 2-12. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (2001) Modernism as translation.14 Traces: a multilingual series of cultural theory and translation, 1, pp. 319-329. ISSN (print) 1533-3426
Osborne, Peter (2001) Non-places and the spaces of art.15 The Journal of Architecture, 6(2), pp. 183-194. ISSN (print) 1360-2365
Osborne, Peter (2001) Review article: Installation, performance, or what?16 Oxford Art Journal, 24(2), pp. 147-154. ISSN (print) 0142-6540
Osborne, Peter (2000) Radicalism and philosophy.17 Radical philosophy(103), pp. 6-11. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (1998) Remember the future? The Communist Manifesto as historical and cultural form.18 Socialist Register, 34, pp. 190-204. ISSN (print) 0081-0606
Osborne, Peter (1996) Times (modern), modernity (conservative): notes on the persistence of a temporal motif.19 New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics(28), pp. 132-141. ISSN (print) 0950-2378
Osborne, Peter (1995) Tactics, ethics, or temporality? Heidegger's politics reviewed.20 Radical philosophy(70), pp. 16-28. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (1994) The politics of time.21 Radical philosophy(68), pp. 3-9. ISSN (print) 0300-211X
Osborne, Peter (1992) A Marxism for the postmodern? Jameson's Adorno.22 New German Critique(56), pp. 171-192. ISSN (print) 0094-033X
Osborne, Peter (1992) Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.23 New Left Review, I/192, pp. 65-84. ISSN (print) 0028-6060
Book
Osborne, Peter (2005) How to read Marx.24 London, U.K. : Granta. 136p. (How to read) ISBN 1862077711
Osborne, Peter, ed. (2004) Walter Benjamin: critical evaluations in cultural theory.25 London, U.K. : Routledge. 1392p. ISBN 0415325331
Sandford, Stella and Osborne, Peter, eds. (2002) Philosophies of race and ethnicity.26 London, U.K. : Continuum. 240p. ISBN 0826459943
Osborne, Peter (2000) Philosophy in cultural theory.27 London, U.K. : Routledge. 146p. ISBN 0415238013
Osborne, Peter (1995) The politics of time: modernity and avant-garde.28 London, U.K. : Verso Books. 272p. ISBN 0860916529
Book Section
Osborne, Peter (2009) Abstract images: sign, image and aesthetic in Gerhard Richter's painting.29 In: Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., (ed.) Gerhard Richter. London, U.K. : MIT Press. pp. 95-112. ISBN 9780262513128
Osborne, Peter (2009) Modernisms and mediations.30 In: Halsall, Francis , Jansen, Julia Alejandra and O'Connor, Tony, (eds.) Rediscovering aesthetics: transdisciplinary voices from art history, philosophy, and art practice. Stanford, U.S.A. : Stanford University Press. pp. 163-177. ISBN 9780804759915
Osborne, Peter (2009) Occasionalism.31 In: Faldbakken, Matias, (ed.) Matias Faldbakken: shocked into abstraction. Birmingham, U.K. : Ikon Gallery Ltd. pp. 44-71. ISBN 9781904864530
Osborne, Peter (2009) Starting up all over again: time and existence in some conceptual art of the 1960s.32 In: Eleey, Peter, (ed.) The quick and the dead. Minneapolis, U.S.A. : Walker Art Center. pp. 91-106. ISBN 9780935640939
Osborne, Peter and Alliez, Eric (2008) Philosophy and contemporary art after Adorno and Deleuze: an exchange.33 In: Garnett, Robert and Hunt, Andrew, (eds.) Gest: laboratory of synthesis #1. London, U.K. : Book Works. pp. 35-64. ISBN 9781870699969
Osborne, Peter (2004) Distracted reception: time, art, and technology.34 In: Morgan, Jessica and Muir, Gregor, (eds.) Time zones: recent film and video. London, U.K. : Tate Publishing. pp. 66-75. ISBN 1854375490
Osborne, Peter (2003) Photography in an expanding field: distributive unity and dominant form.35 In: Green, David, (ed.) Where is the photograph? Maidstone, U.K. : Photoworks. pp. 63-70. ISBN 1903796083
Osborne, Peter (2002) Greedy Kunst.36 In: Merck, Mandy and Townsend, Chris, (eds.) The art of Tracey Emin. London, U.K. : Thames and Hudson. pp. 40-59. ISBN 0500283850
Osborne, Peter (1999) Conceptual art and/as philosophy.37 In: Newman, Michael and Bird, Jon, (eds.) Rewriting conceptual art. London, U.K. : Reaktion Books. pp. 47-65. ISBN 1861890524
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