Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss (born 1946 in Evansville, Indiana), a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. Geuss took both his undergraduate (B.A., "summa cum laude," 1966) and graduate (Ph.D., 1971) degrees at Columbia University, where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Robert Denoon Cumming. He formerly taught at Princeton University, Columbia University, and University of Chicago in the United States and at Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany before taking up his present post at Cambridge.

To date Geuss has published seven books of philosophy, of which two are collections of essays. They are: "The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School"; "Morality, Culture, and History"; "Public Goods, Private Goods"; "History and Illusion in Politics"; "Politik und Gluck"; "Outside Ethics", and "Real Politics," which has just appeared from Princeton University Press. He has also edited two criticial additions of works of Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy" and "Will to Power." Together with Quentin Skinner, Geuss co-edits the "Cambridge Studies in the History of Political Thought" series of books. Geuss has also published two collections of translations/adaptations of poetry from Ancient Greek, Latin and Old High German texts.

Geuss is an important educator who has supervised the graduate work of several prominent scholars working in the history of continental philosophy, social and political philosophy and in the philosophy of art.

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* [http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/geuss/geuss_index.html Raymond Geuss's home page]