Emory University Department of Philosophy
Ursula Goldenbaum

Ursula Goldenbaum

Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

404.727.1191
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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.