Fred Rush
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-4187
E-Mail: Rush.12@nd.edu
Office: 311 Malloy
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-4:00
Curriculum Vitae
International Yearbook of German Idealism
Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus
Editor Fred Rush, assoc. editor Paul Franks
Reply to Finlayson Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia
Areas of Interest:
History of Continental Philosophy, Kant, Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Social and Political Philosophy
Selected Bibliography
To view recent publications please see CV
Additional Information:
Fred Rush studied philosophy at Columbia University and the University of Munich and has held visiting research appointments at Cambridge and Munich universities. He is the recipient of Mellon, Fulbright and ACLS fellowships. His main research interests are in Kant, post-Kantian German philosophy, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy. On the historical side, he has written several articles focusing on the relation of metaphysics and epistemology to aesthetic theory in German idealism (e.g. Kant, Hegel) and early twentieth century German philosophy (e.g. Heidegger, the Frankfurt School). His systematic interests are in aesthetics and political philosophy, and especially their intersection. On the aesthetics side, he is primarily interested in the philosophy of art and, more particularly, in the philosophy of literature and music. . On the political theory side, he focuses on alternatives to liberalism. He has recently offered graduate courses in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Judgment, Hegel, Heidegger, the Frankfurt School and in aesthetics.
Rush is the author of On Architecture (2008) and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (2004). He also edits the journal Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus. He is just now completing a book on the philosophical significance of the concept of irony in post-Kantian German philosophy and Kierkegaard with the working title Irony and Idealism. In it, he argues that the brand of early German romanticism developed in Jena at the turn of the nineteenth century offers an interesting alternative to the more system-obsessed and foundationalist strand of post-Kantian thought found in Reinhold, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and one that is truer to some of Kant's most important insights.
