{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1957)}} {{more references|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = Frederick Neuhouser | image = | birth_name = Frederick Wayne Neuhouser | birth_date = 1957 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | discipline = Continental philosophy, 19th century philosophy, social theory | work_institutions = Barnard College<br>Columbia University | education = Wabash College (B.A.)<br>Columbia University (Ph.D.) | thesis_title = Fichte's Theory of Self Positing Subjectivity and the Unity of Reason | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303548966 | thesis_year = 1988 | doctoral_advisor = Charles Larmore | doctoral_students = | known_for = }} '''Frederick Wayne Neuhouser''' (born 1957) is an American philosopher who is the Viola Manderfeld<ref name=viola>{{cite web |url=https://chronicle.uchicago.edu/980416/obit.shtml |title=Viola Manderfeld obituary |publisher=University of Chicago |date=April 16, 1998 |website=Chronicle|access-date=September 6, 2025}}</ref> professor of German and a professor of philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a specialist in European philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially of Rousseau, Fichte, and Hegel.
==Education and career== Neuhouser graduated ''summa cum laude'' in 1979 from Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and received his Ph.D.<ref name=thesis>{{cite journal |journal=Clio |title=Fichte's theory of self-positing subjectivity and the unity of reason|publication-place=New York City|date=1988|publisher=Columbia University Libraries |url=https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/823887|author-last=Neuhouser|author-first=Frederick Wayne |volume=IV|access-date=September 6, 2025}} </ref> from Columbia University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://philosophy.columbia.edu/files/philosophy/content/CV-Neuhouser_Phil..pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae of Frederick Neuhouser |website=Columbia University |access-date=September 6, 2025 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227111228/https://philosophy.columbia.edu/files/philosophy/content/CV-Neuhouser_Phil..pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> He taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego, Cornell University, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main before returning to the Barnard/Columbia faculty.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021|title=New Members|access-date=September 6, 2025|archive-date=May 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523105313/https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021|website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Philosophical work== Neuhouser's focus is on German Idealism and continental social theory. He has published ''Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity'' (Cambridge University Press, 1990); ''Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom'' (Harvard University Press, 2000), which argues for the centrality of "social freedom" in Hegel's political thought; ''Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition'' (Oxford University Press, 2008); and ''Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
His latest work, ''Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and Durkheim'' (Cambridge University Press, 2023), centers on notions of "social pathology" in 18th, 19th, and 20th-century philosophy.
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