Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. His research interests are in the fields of the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural history. He is the author of several books, including Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (1998), Levinas and the Political (2002), On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2013), and the forthcoming Kafka: In Light of the Accident (2017).