CURRICULUM VITAE

(24 July 2014)

Frederick Neuhouser
fneuhous@barnard.edu
Home: 300 W. 109 Street, #11-R
New York, New York 10025
Tel. (212) 665-6023
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS:

20032001-03
1998-01
1996-98
1992-95
1988-92

Office: Department of Philosophy

Barnard College, 3009 Broadway
New York, New York 10027
Tel. (212) 854-2064

Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German,

Barnard College, Columbia University
Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of California-San Diego
J. L. Loeb Associate Prof. of Humanities (Philosophy), Harvard Univ.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

AREAS OF
SPECIALTY:

19th century Continental philosophy

18th century Continental philosophy (Rousseau and Kant)
Social and political philosophy

AREAS OF
COMPETENCE:

20th century Continental philosophy

Freud and psychoanalysis

EDUCATION:

2005-08
1981-88
1979-80
1975-79

Affiliate Scholar, Center for Psychoanalytic Training, Columbia Univ.

Ph.D., Philosophy, Columbia University
M.A., Philosophy, Columbia University
B.A., summa cum laude, Wabash College, Indiana

INVITED LECTURE SERIES:

"Three Conceptions of Social Pathology," Univeristy of Essex (UK):

I. "Rousseau: The Idea of Social Pathology," May 19, 2014
II. "Hegel: Uniting Freedom and Life," May 20, 2014
III. "Marx: Alienated Social Forces," May 21, 2014

CONFERENCE ON MY WORK:

"Soziale Pathologien mit Frederick Neuhouser," July 14-15, 2014

Institut fr Philosophie, Humboldt-Univ., Berlin (Germany)

OTHER TEACHING: 2006

June, 2014
June, 2013
May, 2013

Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang GoetheUniversitt, Frankfurt (Germany), Sommersemester

Stanford U., 1-week sem., Fichte's practical phil., co-taught (A. Wood)
Stanford U., 1-week sem., Rousseau and Kant, co-taught (A. Wood)
U. of Leiden (Neth.), 1-week course on Rousseau's Second Discourse

2009
1991-2, 1994
1980-81
1978

Gastwissenschaftler, Humboldt-Universitt, Berlin (Germany) July-Dec.

Alex.-von-Humboldt Stipendiat, Freie Universitt, Berlin (Germany)
Graduate Study, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich (Germany)
Undergraduate Study, Universidad de Valencia (Spain)

FOREIGN STUDY:

RECENT AWARDS: 2012

2012
2005
1999-2000

Fellowship for Translation, Alex. von Humboldt-Stiftung (Berlin)

Mellon Foundation Summer Translation Grant
Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio (Italy)
Resident Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Cornell University

NON-ACADEMIC
ACTIVITIES:

Participant, Installation/Performance Piece This Progress, by Tino

Sehgal, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Jan. 26-Mar. 10, 2010
Discussant, "Freud as Philosophical Physician," Association for
Psychoanalytic Medicine, New York, February 2, 2010

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EDITORIAL
POSITIONS:

200620132005-12
2000-05

Editor, The Journal of Philosophy

Advisory Editor, The Journal of the American Philosophical Association
Member, Columbia University Press Publications Committee
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat (Advisory Board), Deutscher Idealismus: An
International Yearbook (de Gruyter)

INTERVIEWS:

"Reading Rousseau Today: the Question of Recognition," with B.

Carnevali, Maison Franaise, Columbia University, Sept. 25, 2013
The Stone, The New York Times, November 14, 2011
(http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/11/14/opinion/
100000001126124/fred-neuhouser.html)
Critical Thinking, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, forthcoming

CURRENT
RESEARCH:

A book on the concept of social pathology and its role in social

philosophies of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Translation:
Edited Translation:
Papers:

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)
[German translation: Pathologien der Selbstliebe, Suhrkamp, 2012]
Actualizing Freedom: The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory
(Harvard, 2000)
[Chinese translation to appear in 2014]
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990)
Translation from German of Rahel Jaeggi's Entfremdung (Alienation),
(Columbia, 2014), 260 pages
J. G. Fichte, Foundations of Natural Right (Cambridge, 2000)
"Hegel on Social Ontology and the Possibility of Pathology," in [title
to be determined], ed. Italo Testa (Brill), forthcoming
"Fichte's Separation of Right from Morality," Fichte's 'Foundations of
Natural Right, ed. Gabriel Gottlieb (Cambridge), forthcoming
"Fichte's Methodology in the Wissenschaftslehre," Palgrave Handbook of
German Idealism, ed. Matthew Altman (Palgrave), forthcoming
"Nietzsche on Spiritual Illness," Journal of Nietzsche Studies,
forthcoming
"Hegel and Nietzsche on Spirit and Its Pathologies," in [title undetermined], ed. Katia Hay (de Gruyter, 2014)
"Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue,"
Understanding Love through Philosophy, Film, and Literature, eds.
Susan Wolf, Christopher Grau, (Oxford, 2014), 209-30
"Rousseau's Critique of Inequality," Philosophy and Public Affairs (41)
2013, 193-225
"Hegel on Life, Freedom, and Social Pathology," Freiheit, eds. Axel
Honneth, Gunnar Hindrichs (Klostermann, 2013)
[In Spanish as "Hegel sobre la vida, la libertad, y la patologa
social," Pensamiento Poltico, online journal, Chile, 2014]
"Rousseau und Hegel: Zwei Begriffe der Anerkennung," Subjektivitt
und Autonomie, eds. S. Lang, L. Ulrichs (de Gruyter, 2013), 275-88
[In Italian as "Rousseau e Hegel: due concetti di riconoscimento,"
Consecutio Temporum, (www.consecutio.org) 14 aprile 2013]
"Marx (und Hegel) zur Philosophie der Freiheit," Nach Marx, eds.
Rahel Jaeggi, Daniel Loick (Suhrkamp, 2013), 25-47
[In Chinese as ""
International Studies of Social Science 15/2011, 1-12]

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PUBLICATIONS:

Papers:
(cont'd)

"The Critical Function of Genealogy in the Thought of J.-J. Rousseau,"

Review of Politics 74 (2012), 371-87
[In Germ. as "Die kritische Funktion der Genealogie im Denken
Rousseaus," Deutsche Zeitschrift fr Philosophie, 4/2006, 495-509]
"Rousseau und die Idee einer 'pathologischen' Gesellschaft,"
Politische Vierteljahresschrift (53) Jg. 4/2012, 628-45
[In English as "Rousseau and the Idea of a 'Sick' Society," in [title
undetermined], ed. Konstanze Baron, 2014]
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Origins of Autonomy," Inquiry (54)
2011, 478-93
[In German as "J.-J. Rousseau u. die Ursprnge der Autonomie,"
Deutsche Zeitschrift fr Philosophie, 2015]
"Die normative Bedeutung von 'Natur' im moralischen und
politischen Denken Rousseaus," Sozialphilosophie und Kritik
(Suhrkamp, 2009), ed. Rainer Forst, et. al., 109-33
"Rousseau on the Conflict between 'Human' & 'Civic' Education,"
Institutions of Education (Brill, 2009), ed. P. Cobben
"The Concept of Society in 19th Century Thought," Cambridge History
of Philosophy in the 19th Century, eds. A. Wood, S. S. Hahn, 2009
"Rousseau und das menschliche Verlangen nach Anerkennung,"
Deutsche Zeitschrift fr Philosophie, 6/2008, 899-922
[Reprinted, Anerkennung (Akademie Verlag, 2009), eds. HansChristoph Schmidt am Busch, Christopher F. Zurn, 27-51]
[In English as "Rousseau and the Human Drive for Recognition,"
The Philosophy of Recognition, eds. Hans-Christoph Schmidt am
Busch, Christopher F. Zurn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), 21-46]
"Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord"
Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Blackwell, 2008), ed. Kenneth
Westphal, 37-54
"Hegel's Social Philosophy," The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
(Cambridge, 2008), 2nd ed., ed. Frederick C. Beiser, 204-29
"'Wealth of Nations' and Social Science, The Adam Smith Review
(vol. 2), ed. Vivienne Brown (Routledge), 2006, 233-8
"L'idea hegeliana di 'scienza' della societ," Quaderni di Teoria Sociale,
2005, 251-85
[In English as "The Idea of a Hegelian Science of Society," A
Companion to Hegel, ed. S.Houlgate, M.Baur (Blackwell, 2009)]
[In German as "Die Idee einer Hegelianischen 'Wissenschaft'
der Gesellschaft," Analyse & Kritik, 30/2008]
"On 'Detaching' Hegel's Social Philosophy from His Metaphysics:
Reply to Critics," Owl of Minerva Fall/Winter 2004-05, 31-42
"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love,"
Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, 2003, 221-39
"The First Proposition of Fichte's Naturrecht: The Efficacy of the
Rational Being," J. G. Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, ed.
Jean-Christoph Merle (Akademie, 2001), 39-50
Editor's Introduction to J. G. Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right
(Cambridge, 2000), vii-xxxiii
"Ethical Life and the Demands of Conscience," Bulletin of the
Hegel Society of Great Britain, no. 37, May, 1998
[Reprinted in: G.W.F Hegel, ed. D. Knowles (Ashgate), 2009]
"Response to Robert Pippin," Proceedings of the 8th International
Kant Congress, 1995, vol. 1, part 3, 999-1003
"Fichte and the Relation between Right and Morality," Fichte:
Historical Context/Contemporary Controversies, ed. Daniel
Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (Humanities Press, 1994), 158-80

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PUBLICATIONS:

Papers:
(cont'd)

"Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will," The Philosophical

Review (102) 1993, 363-95
[Reprinted in: J.-J. Rousseau, ed. John T. Scott (Blackwell, 2006)
&: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ed. Timothy O'Hagan (Ashgate, 2007)]
"Deducing Desire and Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit,"
Journal of the History of Philosophy, April, 1986, 243-62

Book
Reviews:

The Free Animal: Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature, Lee
MacLean, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February, 2014
The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from
Rousseau to Fichte, I. Nakhimovsky, N.D. Phil. Reviews, Nov., 2011
Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals, Joshua Cohen, Ethics, 2011
Entfremdung, Rahel Jaeggi, Notre Dame Phil. Reviews, June, 2007
Verdinglichung, Axel Honneth, Notre Dame Phil. Reviews, Feb., 2006
Hegel's Idea of Freedom, Alan Patten, TLS, February, 2002
Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social
Theory, Warren Breckman, Mind, April, 2001
Hegel's Idea of a 'Phenomenology of Spirit', Michael N. Forster,
The Philosophical Review, 2001
The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism, Andrew Levine,
The Philosophical Review, October, 1995
Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism, Frederick Beiser,
The Philosophical Review, 1994
Hegel's Ethical Thought, A. Wood, Journal of Philosophy, June, 1992
Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings, Daniel Breazeale, ed.,
Journal of the History of Philosophy, October, 1990

"Hegel: Social Ontology and Social Pathology"

-Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture, CUNY, April 23, 2014
-University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy Department, April 11, 2014
"Marx's Theory of Alienation," Columbia U., Contemp. Civ. Lunch, Mar. 4, 2014
"Rousseau on Social Ontology and Social Pathology," Philosophy Department,
University of Indiana, February 14, 2014
"Kant and Nietzsche on Justice, Autonomy, and Spiritual Illness," Conference on
Nietzsche & Kantian Politics, John Cabot U., Rome (Italy), Dec. 6, 2013
"Entre Ilustracin y Romanticismo: Fichte y el legado de Rousseau," Keynote,
Congreso de ALEF, Valdivia (Chile), November 13, 2013
"Rousseau and the Idea of a 'Sick' Society"
-Faculty Workshop, Columbia University, Phil. Dept., Oct. 24, 2013
-Keynote, Grad. Conf. in History of Phil., Princeton U., April 21, 2012
-Harvard University, Philosophy Department, April 12, 2012
-University of Toronto, Philosophy Department, March 29, 2012
"Hegels Soziale Ontologie und die Diagnose von Sozialpathologie," Keynote,
"Hegel-Gesprche," J.W. Goethe U., Frankfurt (Germany) July 17, 2013
"Hegel on Social Ontology and the Possibility of Pathology"
-Conference on Hegel and Social Ontology, Venice (Italy), June 5, 2013
-Institute for Philosophy, Univ. of Leiden (Netherlands), May 23, 2013

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INVITED
TALKS:
(cont'd)

"Nietzsche on Illness and Its Promise"

-Dept. of Philosophy, Northwestern University, March 19, 2013
-N. American Nietzsche Society, Washington, D. C., Dec. 28, 2011
-Friedrich Nietzsche Society, London (U.K.), Sept. 11, 2011
"Rousseau und die Idee einer 'pathologischen' Gesellschaft"
-Ringvorlesung, Techn. Universitt, Darmstadt (Germ.), Jan. 9, 2013
-Ambivalenzen der Freiheit Conf., Frankfurt (Germ.), Jun. 28, 2012
"Rousseau's Critique of Inequality"
-Ninth Modern Philosophy Conference, N.Y.U., November 9, 2012
"Selbstverhltnisse und Institutionen bei Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
-DFG Rousseau Conference, Univ.-Halle (Germ.), Sept. 22, 2012
"Marx and Hegel on the Value of 'Bourgeois' Ideals"
-Marx and Philosophy Society, London (U.K.), June 2, 2012
"Hegel and Nietzsche on Spirit and Its Pathologies"
-Nietzsche & Germ. Idealism Conf., Lisbon (Portugal) May 17, 2012
"Genealogy and Critique in Rousseau's Second Discourse"
-Chicago, Central APA, Invited Panel, February 17, 2012
-Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, October 29, 2010
-University of Binghamton, Philosophy Department, April 16, 2010
-Hunter College, Philosophy Department, March 12, 2008
-Keynote, SEP/FEP Conference, Univ. of Sussex (U.K.), Sept. 10, 2007
-N.Y.U./New School conference on Second Discourse, April 8, 2005
-Sarah Lawrence College, Feb. 25, 2005
-University of Pennsylvania, Comp. Lit. Lecture Series, Feb. 9, 2005
-Columbia University, Contemp. Civilization Lunch, Jan. 18, 2005
"Hegel on Life, Freedom, and Social Pathology"
-Philosophies of Right Conference, New School, NYC, Dec. 3, 2011 (
-Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy, Boston Univ., Oct. 15, 2011
-Chicago Area German Phil. Consortium, DePaul U., Sept. 30, 2011
-Internationaler Hegel-Kongress, Stuttgart (Germany), June 25, 2011
"Marx (and Hegel) on How to Philosophize about Freedom"
-Plenary lecture, Philosophy and the Social Sciences conference,
Prague (Czech Republic), May 12, 2011
-Re-Thinking Marx conference, Berlin (Germany), May 22, 2011
"Rousseau on Narcissism and the Nature of Human Drives"
-Assoc. for Psychoanalytic Medicine, New York City, Feb. 1, 2011
"Rousseau and Hegel: Two Concepts of Recognition"
-Philosophy Dept., Univ. of Pennsylvania, December 3, 2010
"The Normative Significance of Nature in Rousseau's Moral & Political Thought"
-Philosophy Dept., Stanford University, October 29, 2010
-Philosophy Dept., University of California-Berkeley, April 1, 2010
-American Philosophical Assoc., Central Division, February 19, 2010
-Philosophy Dept., University of Dublin (Ireland), November 12, 2009
-Philosophy Dept., University of Oslo (Norway), March 13, 2009
-Kant bis Hegel Conf., Concordia U., Montreal, October 10, 2009

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INVITED
TALKS:
(cont'd)

"J.-J. Rousseau on Recognition as a 'True' Human Need"

-Conference on Needs, Univ. of Basle (Switzerland), Sept. 18, 2010
"J.-J. Rousseau and the Origins of Autonomy Theory"
-Essex Autonomy Project, Inst. of Phil., London (U.K.), Sept. 5, 2010
"Herder and Rousseau on the Relation between Genealogy and Human Nature"
-Herder Conference, Univ. of Oslo, Rosendal (Norway), May 28, 2010
"Autonomy in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy"
-Summer Course, Central Eur. U., Budapest (Hungary), July 13, 2010
"Negative Freedom and Autonomy in Rousseau's Political Thought"
-Summer Course, Central Eur. U., Budapest (Hungary), July 13, 2010
"On Rousseau's Claim that 'Nature' Is Not the Source of Inequality"
-Modern Philosophy Workshop, Univ. of Chicago, March 12, 2010
"Rousseau und Hegel: Zwei Begriffe der Anerkennung"
-Philosoph. Fakultt, Humboldt-U., Berlin (Germany), Nov. 4, 2009
-Symposium: Anerkennung & Kritik, Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt
(Germany), July 17, 2009
"Rousseau and the Positive Significance of Amour Propre"
-Conference: Passions in Mod. Phil., U. of San Francisco, May 1, 2009
"The Role of Natural Teleology in Rousseau's Moral and Political Thought"
-Conference, Teleology in Enlightenment, Columbia U., Oct. 24, 2009
"Cosmopolitan Education in Rousseau and Kant," a series of four seminars
-Philosophical Institute, Univ. of Debrecen (Hungary), Oct.17-18, 2008
"Rousseau and the Problem with Self-Love (Amour Propre)"
-Philosophy Dept., University of New Mexico, April 4, 2008
-Philosophy Dept., University of North Carolina, April 23, 2004
-Columbia University Seminar on Political Theory, March 25, 2004
-Philosophy Dept., Reed College, Nov. 22, 2002
-Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois-Chicago, Nov. 4, 2002
-Philosophy Dept., Brown University, Oct. 20, 2000
Die kritische Funktion der Genealogie im Denken J.-J. Rousseaus
-Inst. fr Philosophie, Universitt Frankfurt (Germany), July 19,2006
-Zentrum fr Philosophie, Universitt Gieen (Germany), June 7, 2006
"Hegel on History, Freedom, and the State"
-Columbia U., Contemp. Civ. Lunch:
Mar. 4, 2008;
Mar. 2, 2010;
Feb. 21, 2012
"Rousseau on the Conflict between 'Human' and 'Civic' Education"
-Workshop on Education, Phil. Dept., Columbia Univ., Feb. 22, 2008
-Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, Feb. 18, 2008
-Conf. on Germ. Idealism, U. of Tilburg (Netherlands) Dec. 13, 2007
-Seminar: Pol. Theory, King's Coll., Cambridge U. (U.K.) Nov. 26,2007
-Political Philosophy Colloquium, Princeton Univ., March 29, 2007
-Inst. fr Pol. Wissenschaft, Univ. Frankfurt, (Germany), June 27,2006
-Philosophy Dept., Teachers College, Columbia Univ., Nov. 17,2005

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INVITED
TALKS:
(cont'd)

"Sittlichkeit und die Familie in Hegels Philosophie des Rechts"

-Zentrum fr Philosophie, Univ. Gieen (Germany), June 27, 2007
"Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue"
-Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Working Group, University of North
Carolina, March 10, 2007
"The Origin of Inequality in Rousseau's Second Discourse"
-Columbia University, Contemp. Civil. Luncheon, Jan. 23, 2007
"The Ubiquity of Inflamed Amour propre"
-Columbia Univ. Seminar on Psychoanalysis & Phil., Nov. 27, 2006
"No 'I' without a 'We': Conditions of Self-Consciousness"
-History of Modern Phil. Conference, New York Univ., Dec. 4, 2005
"Rousseau and the Nature of Practical Reason"
-Philosophy Dept., University of Arizona, Oct. 7, 2005
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Two Types of Self-Love"
-Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio (Italy), July 4, 2005
"Rousseau and the Rational Significance of Self-Love (Amour Propre)"
-Columbia University, Society of Fellows, Oct. 14, 2004
-Harvard University, Government Department, March 6, 2003
"Rousseau and the Standpoint of Practical Reason"
-Conference on German Idealism, Johns Hopkins U., April 12, 200
"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (Amour Propre)"
-Philosophy Dept., Columbia University, Dec. 6, 2001
-Conference on German Idealism, U.of Halle (Germ.), Oct. 22, 2001
-Philosophy Dept., Northwestern University, October 5, 2001
-Philosophy Dept., University of Toronto, September 20, 2001
"The First Proposition of Fichte's Naturrecht"
-Conference, Pol. and Legal Phil. of Fichte, U.C.S.D., March 22, 2001
"Rousseau and Freud on Narcissism"
-APA Symposium on Psychoanalysis/German Idealism, Dec. 27, 2000
"Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory"
-Columbia Univ. Seminar on Pol. Econ. of War & Peace, Dec. 14, 2000
"Morality and the State in Hegel's Political Philosophy":
-Conference "Morality & Politics," Dubrovnik (Croatia), Apr 13, 2000
"Hegel's Concept of Autonomy"
-Conference "Autonomy in German Idealism and Romanticism, "
University of Notre Dame, March 20, 2000
"Hegel's Critique of Social Contract Theory"
-Philosophy Dept., New York University, April 30, 1999
-Philosophy Dept., University of California, Irvine, April 15, 1998
-Philosophy Dept., Cornell University, December 6, 1996
-Conference, Indiana University, September, 1996
-Philosophy Dept., Yale University, October 6, 1995
-Philosophy Dept., Univ. of California, San Diego, January 12, 1995

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INVITED
TALKS:
(cont'd)

"Rousseauian Themes in Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'"

-Conference on German Idealism, Cornell University, April 3, 1999
"Hegel's Communitarian Liberalism"
-Ctr. for W. European Studies, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, Mar. 5, 1998
"Ethical Life and the Demands of Conscience"
-Eastern A. P. A., Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1997
-Great Britain Hegel Society, Oxford Univ. (U.K.), Sept. 1, 1997
"Hegel's Concept of Social Freedom"
-Philosophy Dept., Univ. of California, San Diego, April 29, 1994
-Philosophy Dept., Princeton University, April 23, 1993
-Philosophy Dept., University of Pennsylvania, April 16, 1993
"Fichte and the Distinction between Right and Morality"
-N. American Fichte Society, Duquesne University, March 23, 1991
"Feuerbach's Critique of Theology"
-Wabash College, September 7, 1989
"Fichte and Self-Determination"
-Philosophy Dept., Columbia University, January 29, 1988
"Fichte and the Self-Positing Subject"
-Philosophy Dept., University of New Hampshire, December 15, 1987

CONFERENCE
PANELS:

Invited Respondent to critics in "Author Meets Critics" symposium on my

Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love, Pacific APA, April 23, 2011
Invited Participant in "A Dialogue on Fichte and Recognition," with Jay Bernstein,
NY German Idealism Workshop, Columbia Univ., March 27, 2010
Invited Commentator(in German), Workshop on Gerechtigkeitstheorie & Gesellschaftsanalyse, Inst. fr Sozialforschung, Frankfurt, Nov. 21, 2009
Invited Commentator, Conference on "Civic Virtue and Modernity," German
Historical Institute, London (U.K.), June 5-6, 2009
Invited Panelist, Conference on Hypocrisy and Sincerity, Society for the
Humanities, Columbia University, Nov. 30, 2007
Invited Panelist, Seminar in Political Theory on Hobbes and Rousseau, King's
College, Cambridge University (U.K.), Nov. 20-22, 2007
Invited Respondent to "Theorizing Globalization" at "Reclaiming Adam Smith,"
Barnard College and Columbia University, Sept. 22-23, 2006
Invited Respondent to critics in "Author Meets Critics" symposium on my
Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory, Eastern APA, Dec., 2003
Invited Panelist in "Author Meets Critics" symposium on Samuel Fleischacker's
On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Eastern APA, Dec. 28, 2003
Invited Panelist in "Author Meets Critics" symposium on Allen Wood's Kant's
Ethical Thought, Eastern APA, Dec. 29, 2000
Invited Panelist for "Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900-2000,"
Humanities symposium at Cornell University, Nov. 18, 2000
"Kierkegaard on Absurdity and Reason in Christian Faith," comments to
Alasdair Hannay, Pacific APA, Los Angeles, March 27, 1998
Invited Commentator on Fichte's transcendental idealism , Conference on
Transcendental Idealism, Dartmouth College, Aug., 1995
Invited Panelist on Hegel's Appropriation of Kant's Third Critique, 8th
International Kant Congress, Memphis, March 5, 1995
Seminar: Unapologetic Theology by W. Placher, Wabash College, Sept. 8, 1989

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French:
Italian:
Latin:
Swedish:

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MEMBERSHIPS:

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