Kate Schick is Associate Professor of International Relations at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. She is co-editor of Subversive Pedagogies: Radical Possibility in the Academy (with Claire Timperley, 2022), The Vulnerable Subject: Beyond Rationalism in International Relations (with Amanda Russell Beattie, 2013) and Recognition in Global Politics: Critical Encounters between State and World (with Patrick Hayden, 2016).

In recent years, Gillian Rose has begun—at last—to be rediscovered as one of the twentieth century’s most significant philosophers and critical theorists. First published in 2012, Kate Schick’s Gillian Rose: A Good Enough Justice was ahead of the curve, particularly in highlighting Rose’s vital importance as a thinker of the Left. In Schick’s account, Rose emerges as a thinker of radical yet difficult politics—eschewing all utopias, easy answers, and intellectual comforts, while refusing melancholy or resignation in favour of a political and critical process of mourning that might ‘become the law.’ Schick proves a lucid and generous guide to Rose’s formidable work, showing with clarity and force why, in our present moment of catastrophe and crisis, Rose’s insights are more urgent than ever.

• IntroductionPart I. Speculative philosophy1. Speculative dialectics2. The broken middlePart II. Speculative politics3. Trauma, memory and the political4. Cosmopolitanism, difference and aporetic universalism5. Between tragedy and utopiaConclusion

Kate Schick is Associate Professor of International Relations at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. She is co-editor of Subversive Pedagogies: Radical Possibility in the Academy (with Claire Timperley, 2022), The Vulnerable Subject: Beyond Rationalism in International Relations (with Amanda Russell Beattie, 2013) and Recognition in Global Politics: Critical Encounters between State and World (with Patrick Hayden, 2016).

In recent years, Gillian Rose has begun—at last—to be rediscovered as one of the twentieth century’s most significant philosophers and critical theorists. First published in 2012, Kate Schick’s Gillian Rose: A Good Enough Justice was ahead of the curve, particularly in highlighting Rose’s vital importance as a thinker of the Left. In Schick’s account, Rose emerges as a thinker of radical yet difficult politics—eschewing all utopias, easy answers, and intellectual comforts, while refusing melancholy or resignation in favour of a political and critical process of mourning that might ‘become the law.’ Schick proves a lucid and generous guide to Rose’s formidable work, showing with clarity and force why, in our present moment of catastrophe and crisis, Rose’s insights are more urgent than ever.

• IntroductionPart I. Speculative philosophy1. Speculative dialectics2. The broken middlePart II. Speculative politics3. Trauma, memory and the political4. Cosmopolitanism, difference and aporetic universalism5. Between tragedy and utopiaConclusion