Frederick Neuhouser
American philosopher (born 1957)
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Frederick Wayne Neuhouser (born 1957) is the Viola Manderfeld[1] 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 of Rousseau, Fichte, and Hegel.
Columbia University (Ph.D.)
Frederick Neuhouser | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Academic background | |
| 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 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Continental philosophy, 19th century philosophy, Social theory |
| Institutions | Barnard College, Columbia University |
Education and career
Neuhouser graduated summa cum laude in 1979 from Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and received his Ph.D.[2] from Columbia University.[3] He taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego, Cornell University, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main before returning to the Barnard/Columbia faculty.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.[4]
Philosophical work
Neuhouser's focus is on German Idealism and continental social theory. He has published 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), centers on notions of "social pathology" in 18th, 19th, and 20th-century philosophy.