Frederick Neuhouser

Frederick Neuhouser is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. A specialist in European social and political philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he has devoted much of his research to investigating the idea of “social pathology” as described by such philosophers as Rousseau, Nietzsche, Hegel, and the Frankfurt School, as well as social thinkers like Durkheim and Weber. As a result of this research, he has recently published Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and Durkheim (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He is also author of Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Actualizing Freedom: The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Harvard University Press, 2000). He has taught in Harvard University, Cornell University, University of California-San Diego, and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.