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)
- A world without why (Princeton University Press, 2014)
- Reality and its dreams (Harvard University Press, 2016)
- Changing the subject (Harvard University Press, 2017)
Papers, Comments, Interviews, Reviews
- ‘Wer das Sagen hat’ in Mittelweg 36 (vol. 6, December 2011/January 2012)
- 'Zwischen kritischer Reflexion und Handlungsorientierung' (Interview, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 1/2012)
- 'Post-Kantianism' in Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics ed. Roger Crisp (OUP, 2013)
- Foreword to The German Enemy: Intelligence Reports on Nazi Germany (1943-1949), by Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kircheimer [ed. R. Laudani] (Princeton University Press, 2013)
- 'Human rights: a bad idea' (interview with Lawrence Hamilton) Theoria (summer 2013)
- 'Lucretius in Luxor' (Cambridge Literary Review Issue 7, 2013)
- Perspectivism, value, and egalitarianism' (New Left Review, March 2014)
- Review of Bini Adamczak, Gestern morgen: über die einsamkeit kommunistischer gespenster und die rekonstruktion der zukunft, in Radical Philosophy ( June 2014)
- 'The metaphysical need and the utopian impulse’ in Actions, reasons, and reason ed, Iorio and Stoecker (de Gruyter, 2015)
- `Rabelais and the low road to modernity’ in Princeton History of Modern French Literature ed. Prendergast (Princeton University Press, 2017)
- ‘Republik, Markt, Demokratie’; Afterword to Die Antipolitischen, Jacques de Saint Victoire (Hamburger Edition, 2015)
- `Historisierung, Aufklärung, Genealogie’ in Filozofija i društvo (vol. 27, issue 1, 2016)
- `Richard III : Déchirement tragique et rêve de perfection’ in Richard III :Loyauté me lie ed. Garutti et Lambert-Wild. Les Solaires intempestifs. 2016
- ‘Nietzsche’s Philosophical Ethnology’ in Arion (winter 2017)
- ‘Lecturing on Nietzsche’ in Arion (summer, 2017)
- `Die Hoffnung’ in Auf Nietzsches Balkon III ed. Sarah Bianchi (VDG, 2017)
- ‘Nietzsche’s Germans’ in Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche ed. Stern (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
- ‘Metaphysik ohne Bodenständigkeit’ (on A. Artaud’s Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu) in Negativität. Kunst, Recht, Politik, ed. Thomas Khurana (et al.) (Suhrkamp, November 2018)
- ‘Review of Molière’s Tartuffe (adapted by Christopher Hampton, at Haymarket Theatre)’, please click here
Other:
- ‘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 2011)
- On freedom of speech at the occupation of Lady Mitchell Hall click here
- Gespräch mit Raymond Geuss (Radio Bremen 29 April 2012)
- 'Philosophy and the Economic Crisis' (Lecture UEA, Thursday 8 November 2012)
- Seven lectures on Nietzsche, Michaelmas 2013
- Eight lectures on Marxism, Michaelmas 2013
- Mr Bricolage, December 2013
- Innenminister, December 2011
- Baltimore, January 2014
- Lucretius (January 2014)
- Evil (February 2014)
- Toast (March 2014)
- ‘Er [Kant] ist unbrauchbar’ in ‘Was bleibt von Immanuel Kant?’ Die Zeit 20.12..2015
- `Woher kommt die Wut der Briten?‘ Süddeutsche Zeitung 28.06.2016
- `When inspiration fails‘ in Cambridge Literary Review, vol. 10 (2017)
- ‘Gedichtszyklus’ in Auf Nietzsches Balkon III ed. Bianchi (VDG, 2018)
- ‘Manifestoes’ in Cambridge Literary Review no. 11 (forthcoming)
- `Pater Krigler‘ in Warum Marx? (internet-journal Soziopolis 05.05.2018)
For CV please click here.
Contact Details:
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