COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Mark Alznauer is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He has a B.A. from St. John’s College (Annapolis) and a Ph.D. From the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (2008). He specializes in ethics, aesthetics, and social theory in nineteenth century European philosophy. He also has interests in the history of political philosophy, the theory of action, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015).  He is Vice President of the Hegel Society of America.

Specific interests to Comparative Literary Studies: German Philosophy (esp. Hegel), Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy