External links
- Frederick Neuhouser, at www.barnard.columbia.edu
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Frederick Neuhouser | |
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| Born | 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | Wabash College (B.A.) Columbia University (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Fichte's Theory of Self Positing Subjectivity and the Unity of Reason (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Larmore |
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| Discipline | Continental philosophy,19th century philosophy,Social theory |
| Institutions | Barnard College,Columbia University |
Frederick Wayne 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.
Neuhouser graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville,IN), summa cum laude ,1979,and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. [1] [2] 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. [3]
Neuhouser'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.
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