Raymond Geuss
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Raymond Geuss (born 1946), a Reader in the Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a leading political philosopher and one of the world's foremost scholars of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. Geuss took both his undergraduate (1966) and graduate (1971) degrees at Columbia University, where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Robert Denoon Cumming. He formerly taught at the Universities of Princeton, Columbia, and Chicago in the United States and at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany before taking up his present post at Cambridge. To date he has published six 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; and History and Illusion in Politics; Politik und Gluck; and Outside Ethics, which has just appeared from Princeton University Press. Together with Quentin Skinner, Geuss co-edits the Cambridge Studies in the History of Political Thought series of books. A serious polyglot, 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 of scholars working in the history of continental philosophy, social and political philosophy and in the philosophy of art. Many of his former students have become leading scholars in their own rights.
