Robert Rowland Smith

Robert Rowland Smith was for seven years a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is a consultant, lecturer and writer on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. He has a column in the Sunday Times on moral dilemmas and contributes regularly to BBC TV and radio.

He has published on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis, including Derrida and Autobiography; Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day, (Free Press); and the forthcoming Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art; and is a founding editor of the award-winning journal, Angelaki. He has lectured at universities throughout the UK, France, Norway, and California; in the 1990s the British Council invited him on a lecture tour of the new Europe. He was closely involved with the Amnesty Lectures that brought the world’s most famous thinkers to Oxford, and was fortunate enough to count Jacques Derrida, who described Robert’s work as ‘superb’, among his friends.

In recent years, Robert has spoken at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Hayward Gallery, the French Institute, and the London School of Economics.

Robert's latest book is 'Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones'.