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Linus Recht

Linus Recht

Assistant Professor

Political Science

Linus Recht

Contact Me

linus@auburn.edu

8014 Haley Center

Office Hours

Monday–Friday, 4–5 pm

Education

PhD, University of Notre Dame (Political Science)

MA (MAPSS), University of Chicago

BA, University of Chicago (Philosophy and EALC)

Publications

  • “The Wheel and the Ladder: Freudian and Loewaldian Accounts of Individuation.” June 2017. The Psychoanalytic Review 104:3: 313-350. 
  • “Considering Frederick Crews’s Freud: The Making of an Illusion – Reflections on Freud and Psychoanalysis at the Close of the Biographical Tradition.” Critical Historical Studies. Fall 2020. 
  • “Understanding Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right.” Science & Society. Fall 2021. 
  • “After Desire: Foucault’s Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos of the Internet Age.” Telos. Fall 2021. 
  • “Nietzsche’s Fourfold Critique of Modernity in Beyond Good and Evil.” Perspectives on Political Science. Fall 2021.
  • “Thucydides at Melos: The Archaeological Foundations of Democracy and Oligarchy.” Political Science Reviewer. Spring 2022.
  • “Rhetoric, Historicality, and Genius: Three Fundamental Problems in the History of Political Thought and Three Methodological Solutions.” History of Political Thought. Autumn 2022.
  • (With Yuri Kōno) “Moving Far From Maruyama.” Tokyo Metropolitan University Journal of Law and Politics. Summer 2021.
  • (With Watanabe Hiroshi) "Alexis de Tocqueville and Three Revolutions: France (1789-), Japan (1867-), China (1911-).” International Journal of Asian Studies, Summer 2020.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Political Theory (Fall 2026)
Tyranny (Fall 2026)