Frederick Neuhouser
Viola Manderfeld Professor of German; Professor of Philosophy
Department
German, Philosophy
Office
326D Milbank Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays 3-4 pm and by appointment
Contact
212-854-2064
fneuhouser@barnard.edu
CV
Frederick Neuhouser CV.pdf
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2003- Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and Professor of Philosophy,?Barnard College, Columbia University?
2006 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, J. W. Goethe- Universit?t, Frankfurt?
2005- Affiliate Scholar, Center for Psychoanalytic Training, Columbia University?
1998-03 Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University?
1996-98 Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California-San Diego?
1988-95 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University?
1988 Ph.D., Columbia University
B.A., Wabash College
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
19th-century German Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy
Various talks and articles on social and spiritual pathology in Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, and the Frankfurt School.
Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse(Cambridge, 2014)
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drivefor Recognition(Oxford, 2008) [inGerman:Pathologien der Selbstliebe(Suhrkamp, 2012)]
Actualizing Freedom: The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory(Harvard, 2000)
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity(Cambridge, 1990)
Alienation, by Rahel Jaeggi (Columbia, 2013)
The Stone,The New York Times,November 14, 2011
"Drei Farben: Rot, Kie?lowski mit Rousseau,"WestEnd(forthcoming)
"The Method of thePhilosophy of Right," inHegel's 'Elements of thePhilosophy of Right', ed. David James (Cambridge, 2017), 16-36
[In German:"Die Dialektik der Freiheit in HegelsRechtsphilosophie,"Hegel-Studien(50), 2016, 11-30]
"Autonomy, Spiritual Illness, and Theodicy in Kant and Nietzsche,”inNietzsche & Kantian Ethics, eds. Bailey, Constancio (2017), 159-191
"Fichte's Separation of Right from Morality,"Fichte's 'Foundations ofNatural Right', ed. Gabriel Gottlieb (Cambridge, 2016), 32-51
"Rousseau’s Critique of Economic Inequality," PPA, 2013
"Rousseau'sJulie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue," inUnderstanding Love through Philosophy, Film, and Literature(Oxford, 2013), eds. S. Wolf, C. Grau
"Marx (und Hegel) zur Philosophie der Freiheit," inNachMarx, eds. R. Jaeggi, D. Loick (Suhrkamp, 2013), 25-47
"The Critical Function of Genealogy in the Thought of J.-J. Rousseau,"Review of Politics74 (2012), 371-87
"Rousseau und die Idee einer 'pathologischen' Gesellschaft,"Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2012, 628-45
"Die normative Bedeutung von 'Natur' im moralischen undpolitischen Denken Rousseaus," inSozialphilosophie undKritik(Suhrkamp, 2009), ed. R. Forst, 109-33
"The Concept of Society in 19th Century Thought," inCambridgeHistory of Philosophy in the 19th Century, eds. A. Wood, S. Hahn (Cambridge, 2009)
"Rousseau und das menschliche Verlangen nach Anerkennung,"Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 6/2008, 27-51 [In English as "Rousseau and the Human Drive for Recognition,"The Philosophy of Recognition, eds. H.-C. Schmidt am Busch, C. F.Zurn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)]
"Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord"inHegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'(Blackwell, 2008), ed. K.Westphal, 37-54
"Hegel's Social Philosophy," inThe Cambridge Companion toHegel(Cambridge, 2008), 2nd ed., ed. Frederick Beiser
"The Idea of a Hegelian Science of Society,"ACompanion to Hegel, ed. S.Houlgate, M.Baur (Blackwell, 2009)
"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (AmourPropre),"Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, 2003, 221-39
"Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will,"The PhilosophicalReview(102) 1993, 363-95
In The News
Professor Frederick Neuhouser Publishes a Chapter in the New Book 'Durkheim & Critique'
August 11, 2021
Professor of Philosophy Frederick Neuhouser
The newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discusses his career path as a philosopher interested in recognition and social pathology.
June 10, 2021
Professor Frederick Neuhouser elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 23, 2021