Michelle Kosch Home

Fall 2026:

Marx (PHIL-GA 2300)
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (PHIL-UA 39)

Spring 2026:

No regular classes

Research

I work on Kant and post-Kantian European philosophy, especially German idealists, Kierkegaard, Foucault, and Beauvoir.
My first book, Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling and Kierkegaard (OUP 2006), is available for purchase here.
My second book, Fichte's Ethics (OUP 2018), is available for purchase here.
My published papers, and papers accepted but not yet in print, can be found here.
I am currently working on two monographs (and presenting/publishing papers drawn from these projects): one on Simone de Beauvoir's ethical thought in the works of the 1940s, and one on Fichte's political philosophy of the Jena period.

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