Sean Gaston was born in Melbourne in 1967.

He began his studies in English, history and philosophy at the University of Melbourne in 1987. He was a major scholar at Ormond College and recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship. As a Reader in English, he taught in London and was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.

He has published six monographs and one edited collection on the work of Jacques Derrida and the history of philosophy, including Derrida and Disinterest (2005), The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida (2006), Starting With Derrida (2007), and Derrida, Literature and War (2009). The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida appeared in 2013, and Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History in 2019.

His articles include:

'The Impossibility of Sympathy', The Eighteenth Century 51.1-2 (2010)
'The Fables of Pity', Derrida Today 5.1 (2012)
'Immersion: Harmony, Variety, Fragmentation', in The End of the World (2017)
'George Eliot and the Anglican Reader', Literature and Theology 31.3 (2017)
'The Wounds of Rhetoric: Derrida on Condillac and Rousseau', Paragraph 44.2 (2021)
'Condillac and Derrida: Perception, the Human and Empiricism', Research in Phenomenology 52.1 (2022)
A History of Disinterest: The Death Penalty and the Right to Interest', Derrida Today 15.2 (2022)
'The Concept of World and the American Revolution', Thaumzein 10.2 (2022)
'Reading Kant', in the Handbook to German Idealism and Postructuralism (2023)
"Signature Event Context" and The Possibility of History', nonsite (2024)
'Kant's Gloves: Looking for the World', New Literary History 57.2 (2026)
'Nancy, Kant and the Creation of a World', in The World in Theory (2026)
' Of Grammatology 1965-2026 – A History Lesson', Paragraph (2026)

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