Christopher J Arthur

Born in 1940, Christopher J. Arthur studied at the Universities of Nottingham (1959-63) and Oxford (1963-65). He then gained a post at the newly-formed University of Sussex, teaching philosophy in the School of Social Sciences for many years. He tok up poetry only after his retirement from teaching. He continues to live in Brighton with his partner, Morag.
In his student days Chris Arthur was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Later he was a founding member of the Radical Philosophy Group, and he served as an editor of its journal Radical Philosophy. Also, for some time he was on the jury awarding the Deutscher Memorial Prize annually, for books in or about the Marxist tradition.
He has published many scholarly papers, and he authored three books: Dialectics of Labour (Basil Blackwell 1986), The New Dialectic and Marx's 'Capital' (Brill 2002), and The Spectre of Capital (Brill 2022).