Faculty Bio: 2003- Professor of
Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German,
Barnard College, Columbia University
2006 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, J. W. Goethe- Universität,
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
Current Research
A book-length manuscript on Rousseau's account of the nature,
origin, and permissibility of social inequality.
Books
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive
for Recognition (Oxford, 2008)
The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Harvard, 2000)
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990)
Recent Articles
"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, 495-509
"The Idea of a Hegelian 'Science' of Society," Quaderni di
Teoria Sociale, 2005, 251-85
"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (Amour propre),"
Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen
Idealismus, 2003, 221-39 |