Sayers, Sean (Philip) 1942-

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SAYERS, Sean (Philip) 1942-

PERSONAL:

Born November 27, 1942, in New York, NY; citizenship, British; son of Michael Sayers (a writer); married Janet Toulson, September 19, 1970; children: Nicholas, Daniel. Education: Trinity Hall, Cambridge, B.A., 1966; attended University College, Oxford, 1966-69; University of Kent at Canterbury, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Philosophy, Cornwallis Bldg., University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NF, England. E-mail—s.p.sayers@ukc.ac.uk.

CAREER:

University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, England, began as lecturer, became professor of philosophy, 1969—. University of Colorado—Boulder, visiting professor, 1973-74, 1979-80; University of Sydney, visiting lecturer, 1985.

WRITINGS:

Hegel, Marx, and Dialectic, Harvester Press (Brighton, England), 1980.

Reality and Reason, Blackwell, 1985.

Marxism and Human Nature, Routledge (London, England), 1998.

Plato's Republic: An Introduction, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1999.

Editor and reviews editor, Radical Philosophy, 1972-2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Research on theories of the self and self-realization in Hegel, Marx, and existential philosophy.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Monthly Review, December, 1999, Martha Gimenez, review of Marxism and Human Nature, p. 45.

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