Laurence Hemming is Director of the Knapp Foundation. He is an honorary professor jointly in Lancaster University’s Philosophy, Politics and Religion Department, and the Lancaster University Management School in the UK, and has been associated with Lancaster University in professorial and research roles since 2008. Prior to that he was Dean of Research for Heythrop College, University of London, and has been a Guest Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and other degrees from the University of Oxford.
Laurence is currently (with Aaron Turner) editing a volume for Rowman & Littlefield on Heidegger and Parmenides for publication in 2025, and (also with Aaron Turner) preparing a translation of a volume of Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe (or Collected Works) for publication in 2026. His current research focuses (1) on Heidegger’s engagement with Parmenides, especially in Being and Time and (2) on certain themes in Greek thinking before Plato that were later characterised as the “ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy”.
In 2017 he edited and co-translated Ernst Jünger’s 1932 The Worker: Dominion and Form (Northwestern University Press, 2017). His books include Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism (Northwestern, 2013); Worship as a Revelation (Burnes & Oates / Continuum 2008); Postmodernity’s Transcending (Notre Dame, 2005); Heidegger’s Atheism (Notre Dame, 2002). He has edited several collections as well as book series for Bloomsbury, Notre Dame University Press and SCM Press, and published chapters, translations and articles in scholarly journals on philosophy, theology, liturgy, politics and classics.
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https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/laurence-hemming
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/about-us/people/laurence-hemming