American philosopher at Barnard/Columbia who is a leading interpreter of Hegel and Rousseau — and whose Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love and Freedom's Right are major works in the Hegelian social philosophy tradition — making him the academic philosopher most directly relevant to Jonathan Bi's Rousseau/Hegel interests.
Showed how Rousseau's critique of amour propre (self-love that requires the recognition of others) anticipates Hegel's theory of recognition — making the desire for recognition not a superficial vanity but the deep driver of social pathology and, properly organized, of social freedom.
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