Frederick Neuhouser

Frederick Neuhouser

Research Interest

19th-century German Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy

Professor | Barnard College

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

Research: 

Various talks and articles on social and spiritual pathology in Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, and the Frankfurt School.

Selected Publications

Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse (Cambridge, 2014)

Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Oxford, 2008) [in German: Pathologien der Selbstliebe (Suhrkamp, 2012)]

Actualizing Freedom: The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Harvard, 2000)

Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990)

Translated Book: Alienation, by Rahel Jaeggi (Columbia, 2013)

Rahel Jaeggi and Frederick Neuhouser. Translated by Frederick Neuhouser and Alan E. Smith

"Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue," in Understanding Love through Philosophy, Film, and Literature (Oxford, 2013), eds. S. Wolf, C. Grau

"Marx (und Hegel) zur Philosophie der Freiheit," in Nach Marx, eds. R. Jaeggi, D. Loick (Suhrkamp, 2013), 25-47

"The Critical Function of Genealogy in the Thought of J.-J. Rousseau," Review of Politics 74 (2012), 371-87

"Rousseau und die Idee einer 'pathologischen' Gesellschaft," Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2012, 628-45

"Die normative Bedeutung von 'Natur' im moralischen und politischen Denken Rousseaus," in Sozialphilosophie und Kritik (Suhrkamp, 2009), ed. R. Forst, 109-33

"The Concept of Society in 19th Century Thought," in Cambridge History of Philosophy in the 19th Century, eds. A. Wood, S. Hahn (Cambridge, 2009)

"Rousseau und das menschliche Verlangen nach Anerkennung," Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 6/2008, 27-51 [In English as "Rousseau and the Human Drive for Recognition," The Philosophy of Recognition, eds. H.-C. Schmidt am Busch, C. F. Zurn (Rowm

"Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord" in Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Blackwell, 2008), ed. K. Westphal, 37-54

"Hegel's Social Philosophy," in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge, 2008), 2nd ed., ed. Frederick Beiser

"The Idea of a Hegelian Science of Society," A Companion to Hegel, ed. S.Houlgate, M.Baur (Blackwell, 2009)

"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (Amour Propre)," Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, 2003, 221-39

"Fichte and the Relation between Right and Morality," in Fichte: Historical Context/Contemporary Controversies, ed. D. Breazeale and T. Rockmore (Humanities Press, 1994), 158-80

"Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will," The Philosophical Review (102) 1993, 363-95