Death, Sex and Kant: A Critique of Living

In the shadow of Cambridge's dreaming spires, a young woman named Rose Angwen embarks on a radical quest: to fuse the deepest currents of sexual experience with the highest reaches of philosophical knowledge. Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1980s Britain-marked by political extremism, intellectual fervor, and personal upheaval-Death, Sex & Kant is a bold, unflinching exploration of love, trauma, ideology, and desire.

As Rose navigates relationships with poets, philosophers, dissidents, and damaged souls-including her enigmatic lover Will Slade, the tormented Dewey Ronson, and the elusive Swedish wanderer Sten Olsen-she confronts questions that cut to the core of human existence: Can sex be a path to truth? Is freedom possible in a world governed by power and pain? And what happens when passion collides with ideology?

Blending literary ambition with raw emotional intensity, Dik Edwards crafts a novel that is at once a philosophical odyssey, a psychological thriller, and a haunting meditation on the cost of living fully in a fractured world.