Frederick Neuhouser

Who is Frederick Neuhouser?

Frederick Neuhouser is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Before joining Columbia as a faculty member, Neuhouser taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego, Cornell University and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Neuhouser graduated from Wabash College, summa cum laude, 1979, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Neuhouser's focus is on German Idealism and continental social theory. He has published three books: Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity; Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom, which argues for the centrality of "social freedom" in Hegel's political thought; and Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition.

His current work is centered on Rousseau, especially on notions of recognition, self-love and rationality.