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)
• A world without why (Princeton University Press, 2014)
• Reality and its dreams (Harvard University Press, 2016)
• Changing the subject (Harvard University Press, 2017)
• Who needs a world view? (Harvard University Press, 2020)
• A philosopher looks at work (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Not thinking like a liberal (Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2022)

Papers, Comments, Interviews, Reviews

• `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)
• `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, 2019) 
• ‘Review of Molière’s Tartuffe (adapted by Christopher Hampton, at Haymarket Theatre)’, please click here
• 'Normativität in der Kritischen Theorie der Politik' in Kritische Theorie der Politik ed. U. Bohmann and P. Sörensen (Suhrkamp, 2019)
• ‘Realism, yet again’ in Debating Critical Theory ed. Christ, Lepold, Loick, Stahl (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
• ‘Politik und Wert’ in Nietzsches Perspektiven des Politischen ed. Ruehl and Schubert (de Gruyter, forthcoming)

Other:

• '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)
• `Pater Krigler‘ in Warum Marx?  (internet-journal Soziopolis 05.05.2018)
• Conversation on A World without why in fourbythree [internet journal]
• ‘Ten minutes on nihilism’ in fourbythree [internet journal] 
• ‘Eine Republik der Diskussion’ in Soziopolis.de (18.06.19)
  [Translation into English to appear in 'The Point']
• ‘The last nineteenth century German philosopher’ in Verso.Blog (August 2019)
• ‘Fieberbaum’ in Cambridge Literary Review vol. 12 (2020)
• ‘Auf dem Philosophenkongreß.....’ [short text in German forthcoming on the web-page of Hamburger Edition]
• ‘The pleasures of using “whom” correctly’ : website of the journal Arion
• ‘Boris Johnson: Der Abräumer’ in Die Zeit 15 January 2020-06-14
• `Goethe or Horace‘, in Quarantine Journal  (The Point internet), 19 March 2020
• ‘Like Night’ in Quarantine Journal (The Point internet), 2 April, 2020
• ‘ Loss of public space in a pandemic’ : Cambridge Reflections: Covid-19, 18 May, 2020 (internet)
• ‘You don’t need an identity’ in iai news, issue 96, 19 May 2021-05-23
• ‘Bekenntnisse einer schönen Seele’ (review of Dieter Henrich Ins Denken ziehen) In Information. Philosophie (Heft 3/2021)  (in German)

For CV please click here.

Contact Details:

Raymond Geuss is not himself on e-mail and does not respond to e-mails addressed to him c/o the Faculty Office. Please do not attempt to use the secretarial staff in the Faculty Office as an indirect e-mail conduit; such attempts will be unsuccessful and will merely add to their work-load unnecessarily.

Postal address: c/o Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK.