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Education
PhD in Philosophy, Northwestern University, 2025
Master in Contemporary Philosophy, École normale supérieure and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France), 2017
MA in Philosophy, Columbia University, 2016
BA in Philosophy and Danish, Roskilde University (Denmark), 2015
About Me
I work on German Idealism, aesthetics, and social philosophy, with a particular focus on the idea of freedom. I’m particularly curious about what we can call marginal aspects of freedom: the phenomena and practices which we typically don’t think of as central to freedom but which are nevertheless essential to experiencing life as truly free. Examples might include art, philosophy, and love.
My current research centers on Hegel’s aesthetics and how it solves some of the problems created by his social philosophy, especially ones having to do with social norms becoming habitual and unreflective. I’ve also written about hermeneutical injustice, 20th-century French thought, and the novelist Thomas Mann.
Publications
“Amphibian Habits: Freedom, Death, and History in Hegel’s Account of Second Nature.” European Journal of Philosophy, 34:1 (2025), 115-132: http://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70039
“Reconstructing the Distorted Experience of Oppression: Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology.” Constellations, 29:3 (2022), 269-282: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12576
“Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man.” The Point, issue 26 (2021).
“La renaissance du jugement esthétique : de Arendt à Lyotard, du beau au sublime.” Claudio Rozzoni, Anne Elisabeth Sejten (eds.), Revisiter le sublime (Milan: Mimesis, 2021), 197-213.