Frederick Neuhouser

Professor, Chair

326d Milbank

(212) 854-2064

fneuhous@barnard.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2pm, Wednesdays 3-4pm

(& by appointment)

 

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