A political philosopher, he was professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and was a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale. He also taught Political Science in Oxford.
He is the author of several books, including «False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism» and «Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals». More recently, he published «Feline Philosophy» in 2021. He writes regularly for The Guardian and the New York Review of Books.