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Background

Laurence Hemming is Research Fellow at the Department of Organisation, Technology and Work in the Management School of Lancaster University. Previous appointments include Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, Dean of Research at Heythrop College, University of London, and Research Fellow at St. Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill. He has also been a Guest Professor and Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven.

A short Curriculum Vitae is available for him here.

Laurence Hemming is a founder member of the Society of St. Catherine of Siena and the Temple Studies Group.

Research interests

Laurence Hemming’s principal interest is in the philosophy of politics and work, iand the impact of their interrelation on social life.

He is currently completing a book on Marx and Heidegger, based on lectures given at Lancaster in 2010.  In 2009 he led a research group "Heidegger’s ‘Movement of Nihilism’ as Political and Metaphysical Critique" at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, the results of which will be published in early 2011. He has written extensively on the work of Martin Heidegger, as well as Descartes, Nietzsche, St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Kant and Hegel.

Publications

Laurence Hemming’s most recent book is Worship as a Revelation: The Past, Present and Future of Catholic Liturgy (Burns & Oates [Continuum], London, 2008). Other research monographs are Heidegger’s Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological Voice (Notre Dame University Press, Notre Dame, 2002) and Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God (Notre Dame University Press, Notre Dame and SCM Press, London, 2005).

His book on Postmodernity was the subject of a research conference at the Catholic University of Leuven in October 2004, and the papers engaging with its themes were published in Supplement Series of the online journal Ars Disputandi (University of Utrecht) in October 2005 and can be read or downloaded from here.

A full list of his publications, conference papers, public lectures and other initiatives can be found here.

Laurence Hemming edits two current book series: Studies in Fundamental Liturgy for T&T Clark (Continuum) and Faith in Reason: Philosophical Studies for Notre Dame University Press and SCM Press. He is an editor of the liturgical journal Usus Antiquior, which he helped found, and which commenced publication in January 2010.