Author Archives: Peter Hallward

About Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in the UK. He has written books on the philosophies of Alain Badiou and of Gilles Deleuze, on postcolonial literature, and on contemporary Haitian politics. He is currently finishing a book entitled The Will of the People: The Struggle for Mass Sovereignty, forthcoming from Verso. https://www.kingston.ac.uk/about/staff/professor-peter-hallward

From a Right of Self-Defence to the Fact of Conquest

Peter Hallward[1] This article has been updated by the author with a new post-script, finalized on 17th June.* On 7 October 2023 some arguments began that continue to this day. Did the Hamas-led attack on Israel come out of the blue or was it a response to decades of domination and dispossession? Was it an incomprehensible act of savagery or a long-awaited prison break? A well-timed strike at a complacent oppressor or a counter-productive mistake? Were its intended targets military or civilian or both? Were Continue reading →