Ben Ware

Ben Ware is a philosopher and social theorist based in London, U.K. His work explores the intersections between modern European philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, and modernist aesthetics. He is the author of Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2015); Living Wrong Life Rightly: Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination (Palgrave, 2017); and On Extinction: Beginning Again at the End (Verso, 2023). He is also the editor of Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Thames & Hudson, 2019).