Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Religious Studies. Ph.D. University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought (2008).  B.A. St. John’s College (2000).

Mark Alznauer specializes in nineteenth century German philosophy.  He is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and is the Vice President of the Hegel Society of America (2016-18).  Currently, he is working on two book-length projects: one on Hegel’s theory of truth and a second on the idea of art as theodicy.

 Books

Hegel’s Theory of Reponsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015), here.  To read the penultimate version of the introduction to the book, see here.

Theories of Action and Morality. Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory, co-edited with J. Torralba (Olms Verlag).  

 Recent Articles

“Is Hegel a Natural Law Constructivist?,” in The Owl of Minerva: The Journal of the Hegel Society of America (2016-17).

“Hegel’s Theory of Normativity,” in Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2016), see abstract here.

“Rival Versions of Objective Spirit,” in Hegel Bulletin (2016 ).

“Spirit in the Phenomenology” for the The Oxford Handbook of Hegel (2016), see here.

“Kierkegaard on Hegel’s Inner-Outer Thesis,” in The Heythrop Journal (2014).

“Hegel and the Social Conditions of Agency,” in History of Philosophy Quarterly (2014), see the abstract here, pdf here.

“The Role of ‘Morality’ in Hegel’s Theory of Action,” in The Owl of Minerva: The Journal of the Hegel Society of America (2012/2013), see the abstract here.

“Ethics and History in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy,” in The Review of Metaphysics (2012), see the abstract here.

 Recent Graduate Courses (click for syllabus)

• Post-Kantian Ethics
• European Social Thought
• Hegel’s Philosophy of History
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
• Hegel and Honneth on Freedom
• An Introduction to Hegel’s Logic (forthcoming)

Recent Undergraduate Courses (click for syllabus)

• Contemporary Critical Theory
• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
• Introduction to Critical Theory
• Introduction to Existentialism
• Slavery, Religion, and the Philosophy of Freedom
• Critiques of Morality: Nietzsche and Bernard Williams
• Kierkegaard and Indirect Communication
• Conservatives, Libertarians, and Reactionaries
• German Aesthetics: Schiller and Hegel
• The Idea of Politics: Weber and Schmitt through Arendt and Habermas (forthcoming)