Raymond Geuss
Raymond Geuss works in the general areas of political philosophy and the history of Continental Philosophy.
Principal academic publications
- The Idea of a Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press,1981)
- Morality, culture, and history (Cambridge University Press,1999)
- History and illusion in politics (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- Public goods, private goods (Princeton University Press, 2001)
- Glück und Politik: Potsdamer Vorlesungen (Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004)
- Outside ethics (Princeton University Press, 2005)
- Philosophy and real politics (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- Politics and the imagination (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Recent and forthcoming:
- `Identity, property, and the past’ in Arion (winter 2010)
- 'The Future of evil' in Essays on 'The Genealogy of morality' ed. Simon May (CUP, 2011)
- ‘Wer das Sagen hat’ in Mittelweg 36 (vol. 6, December 2011/January 2012)
- ‘Universities in the Big Society’ in Globalised capitalism between hard cultures and soft culture ed. Theo Leuenberger (forthcoming Springer, 2012)
- A world without why (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2012)
- 'Post-Kantianism' in Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics ed. Roger Crisp (OUP, forthcoming 2012)
- `Did Williams do ethics?‘ in Arion (forthcoming spring 2012)
- ‘Economies: good, bad, indifferent’ in Inquiry (forthcoming, 2012)
- ‘Können die Geisteswissenschaften den Neo-Liberalismus überstehen?’ in Bildung der Moderne ed. Klaus Vieweg (forthcoming, 2012)
Other recent publications:
- ‘“Wickedness Defeated” Says PM as Baghdad Library Burns’ in Morning Star (3 February, 2010)
- Three poems (‘Avis pacis’, ‘”Hälfte des Lebens” as a Swabian haiku’, and ‘Two
forgettable contemporaries’) in Cambridge Literary Review, vol. 1, no.3
(Easter 2010) - ‘Der Markt soll alles wieder richten’ in Die Zeit (10.03.11)
- `Kritik’ in Politische Theorie und politische Philosophie ed. Hartmann and Offe (Beck,
2011) - "Da hilft nur eine ganz andere Politik!" [interview for Die Tagesschau, 10th August 2011]
- "Aufruf zum Widerstand" (Interview with Christian Lininger of ORF, Friday 12th August)
In Progress:
- `Die Fibel der Dystopie’
- `Aufklärung und Genealogie’
- `Freuds Totem und Tabu nach hundert Jahren’ [Arbeitstitel]
- `Bernard Williams and antiquity’ [working title]
Teaching:
In 2010-11 Raymond Geuss is scheduled to lecture on aesthetics and on political philosophy in the Philosophy Tripos. He is, however, not a member of a College and does not supervise undergraduates in the Faculty of Philosophy.
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