Peg Birmingham

Peg was educated at Duquesne University. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of Continental philosophy, political theory, and feminist theory. She is particularly interested in modern and contemporary political thought, emphasizing the texts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Arendt, Heidegger, Deleuze, Agamben, and Foucault. She has published in journals such as Research In Phenomenology, Hypatia, Arendt Studies, Diacritics, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, and Law, Culture, and the Humanities, on topics that include radical evil, human rights, violence, deception, and the temporality of the political.

She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Political Glory, Earthly Immortality in the Age of Superfluousness (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Conjugar violència i acció,/Conjugating violence and action (Barcelona: Breuss, 2025); and Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (Indiana University Press, 2006). She is co-editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights (Bloomsbury, 2014), and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Koros 1995). She is currently working on a manuscript titled Politics before Ethics.

Peg is also the editor of Philosophy Today and co-editor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of the book series, Incitements (Edinburgh University Press).