Ursula Goldenbaum
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
404.727.1191
404.712.9425 Fax
ugolden@emory.edu
PhD,
Academy of Science of the GDR, 1983; Habilitation, Technische
Universität Berlin, 2001.
Research:
History of philosophy, science, Political philosophy, and esthetics during the 17th and 18th centuries, European Enlightenment and the Origin of the Public Space.
Selected
Publications: Author of Appell an das Publikum. Die öffentliche
Debatte in der deutschen
Aufklärung 1687-1796. 2 vol. (Akademie Verlag, 2004); Einführung
in die Philosophie Spinozas (Hagen, 1993).
Editor of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophische Schriften und Briefe (Berlin, 1992);
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Von der Ungleichheit unter den Menschen. Transl. by
Moses Mendelssohn.
(Weimar, 2000). Co-editor of Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (de Gruyter, 2008).
Research articles in The Leibniz Review, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Studia
Leibnitiana, Deutsche Zeitschrift für
Philosophie, Dialektik, Revue Germanique Internationale, American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly,
Theologische Literaturzeitung, Zeitschrift für historische Forschung.
Currently
working on a book about Leibniz and his reasons of turning
from law to metaphysics and
mathematics.
Honors and grants: Member of the board of the Deutsche
Spinoza-Gesellschaft (1992-98); grants
and fellowships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, from the Technische
Universität and
from the Thyssen-Stiftung. Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2007-08). Since 2008 Member of the Board of The Leibniz Society of North America. Since 2009 Member of the Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

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