Frederick Neuhouser (born 1957) is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a specialist in European philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially Rousseau, Fichte, and Hegel.
Frederick Neuhouser | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wabash College (B.A.); Columbia University (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Continental philosophy, 19th century philosophy, Social theory |
| Institutions | Barnard College, Columbia University |
Education and career
editNeuhouser graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN), summa cum laude, 1979, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.[1] Before returning to the Barnard/Columbia faculty, Neuhouser taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego, Cornell University and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.[2]
Philosophical work
editNeuhouser's focus is on German Idealism and continental social theory. He has published four books: Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 1990); Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2000), which argues for the centrality of "social freedom" in Hegel's political thought; Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Oxford University Press, 2008); and Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
His latest work Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and Durkheim (Cambridge University Press, 2023) is centered on ideas of "social pathology" in 18th, 19th and 20th-century philosophy.
References
edit- ^ "Curriculum Vitate of Frederick Neuhouser" (PDF). philosophy.columbia.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-12-27. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
- ^ "New Members". Archived from the original on 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
External links
edit- Frederick Neuhouser, at www.barnard.columbia.edu