Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Karen Ng, Vanderbilt)

The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Karen Ng, an associate professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Ng, who also serves as director of graduate studies, specializes in nineteenth-century European philosophy (esp. Hegel and German Idealism) and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Her book, Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic (Oxford University Press, 2020), won the 2021 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. In addition to her research in post-Kantian philosophy, Dr. Ng is interested in the ongoing influence of Hegel and Marx for critical social theory, particularly as their legacies help us understand the relation between human beings and nature, possibilities and failures of mutual recognition, and conceptions of progress and critique.

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About the Continental Philosophy Group

One of six departmental research interest groups, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness, phenomenology, and post-structuralist critical theory, among other related traditions of thought.