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Raymond Geuss

American-British philosopher · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1946 · age 79

Raymond Geuss is an American political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

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Fellow of the British Academy2011

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Geuss is primarily known for his early account of ideology critique in The Idea of a Critical Theory (1981); his works instrumental to the emergence of political realism in Anglophone political philosophy, including Philosophy and Real Politics; and his essays on topics including aesthetics, Nietzsche, contextualism, phenomenology, intellectual history, and ancient philosophy.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Dates
Born 1946 · age 79

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