Brian Elliott

Short Biography

Brian Elliott has been a lecturer in philosophy at University College Dublin since 2000. His research is concerned with social and political thought, aesthetics, architectural theory and critical urbanism from the perspective of contemporary continental philosophy. He has published numerous articles and two books: one on Heidegger’s interpretation of Aristotle under the title Anfang und Ende in der Philosophie (Duncker & Humblot, 2002) and another on classical phenomenology titled Phenemenology and Imagination in Husserl and Heidegger (Routledge, 2005). He currently holds a research fellowship granted by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. For the present academic year he is resident in Portland, Oregon and completing two further book projects: Constructing Community: Configurations of the Social in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Art, and Architecture (forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield), and Walter Benjamin for Architects (forthcoming in the ‘Thinkers for Architects’ series with Routledge). Brian Elliott holds an MA in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in philosophy from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg-im-Breisgau.