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Frederick Neuhouser
Viola Manderfeld Professor of
German & Professor of Philosophy
Chair of the Department of Philosophy
Frederick Neuhouser, Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and professor of philosophy and chair of the department of philosophy, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2003. He has also taught at Harvard University, the University of California, San Diego, Cornell University, and J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
Professor Neuhouser is also an affiliate scholar in the Center for Psychoanalytic Training at Columbia University.
He has just finished working on a book, Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love (Oxford), on Rousseau's account of both the dangers and the redemptive potential of self-love (amour propre).
Selected Publications
The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Harvard, 2000)
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990)
"Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, & the Price of Virtue," Forthcoming.
"Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord," Forthcoming
"Die kritische Funktion der Genealogie im Denken Rousseaus," Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 4 (2006)
"The Idea of a Hegelian 'Science' of Society," in Quaderni di Teoria Sociale (2005)
"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (Amour propre)," in Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus (2003)
Viola Manderfeld Professor of German & Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Department of Philosophy
Barnard College
212.854.2064
EDUCATION:
B.A., Wabash College
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Social and political philosophy
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European philosophy