Craig Reeves

Dr Craig Reeves

Small Group Project 2024-25

Need, Anxiety and Solidarity: Object-relations Psychoanalysis and Markets

Markets increasingly govern social life, encroaching on almost every aspect of the coordination and allocation of resources and satisfaction of needs, on into the liberal citadel of private life, and misshaping and frustrating humanity’s response to global existential threats of its own making. Markets which were supposed to fulfil human needs seem to be promoting unrealistic wishful thinking and primitive anxiety instead.

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Areas of interest

Legal Philosophy Moral Philosophy Critical Theory Hannah Arendt Criminal Justice Theodor Adorno Freedom Psychoanalysis Philosophy

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Biography

Craig Reeves is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck Law School.

Craig is interested in issues in legal and moral philosophy, and German critical theory. Craig has written about Hannah Arendt, criminal justice and judgment, on Theodor Adorno and freedom, and the metaphysical presuppositions of critical theory. Craig is currently working on the theory of responsibility, the implications of psychoanalysis for the philosophy of punishment, and on Adorno’s critique of moral philosophy. Craig is also finishing a book on the nature of critical theory.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25