"we are unknown to ourselves, we knowers" Nietzsche

Academic Staff

Dr Fabian Freyenhagen

Staff positionReader
E-mailffrey (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone2713 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Room5B.109
Office hoursSee office door
BiographyFabian Freyenhagen read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, and then completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Before joining the Department, he taught at Sheffield and Cambridge. He is Co-Investigator in the AHRC funded project Deciding for Oneself, part of the Essex Autonomy Project.
QualificationsBA Oxford, PhD Sheffield
Current researchCritical Theory; autonomy and its (social) conditions; questions of methodology, normativity and justification in various authors (specifically Adorno, Kant, and Rawls) and contemporary ethics/political philosophy.
Research interests
  • Theory, history and practice of autonomy
  • Frankfurt School (especially Adorno)
  • Ethics (particularly Kant’s and Kantian ethics)
  • Political Philosophy (both contemporary Anglo-American and 19th century theories)
PublicationsLink to publications for Fabian Freyenhagen

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