Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss FBA
Born	(1946-12-10) December 10, 1946 Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
Education
Education	Columbia University (BA, PhD)
Thesis	Persons and Selves (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Denoon Cumming
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Critical theory
Institutions	Princeton University Columbia University University of Chicago Heidelberg University University of Freiburg University of Cambridge
Doctoral students	Michael N. Forster Lawrence Hamilton Katherine Harloe Cornel West
Main interests	Ethics Political philosophy Philosophy of history Intellectual history

Raymond Geuss (/ɡɔɪs/; born 1946) is an American political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Geuss is primarily known for his early account of ideology critique in The Idea of a Critical Theory (1981); his works instrumental to the emergence of political realism in Anglophone political philosophy, including Philosophy and Real Politics; and his essays on topics including aesthetics, Nietzsche, contextualism, phenomenology, intellectual history, and ancient philosophy.