# Short Biography [Curriculum Vitae](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/2025-06/Curriculum%20vitae%20%28shorter%29%20January%202025_2.pdf "cvrosen_01.pdf") Michael Rosen is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University. He has worked on a wide variety of topics in philosophy, social theory, and the history of ideas, but is particularly known for his work on 19 th and 20 th century European philosophy and contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy. He teaches courses on German Idealism, Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Rawls, and on various topics in contemporary political philosophy. After taking his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, he did graduate work at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt before returning to Oxford where he wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Charles Taylor. He was a Special Fellow in Politics at Merton College, Oxford and a Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London before becoming Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1990. He came to Harvard in 2006. Rosen is the author of numerous articles and several books: *Hegel’s Dialectic and its Criticism* (Cambridge University Press, 1982); *On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology* (Harvard University Press, 1996), and *Dignity: Its History and Meaning* (Harvard University Press, 2012). He translated Kant’s *Opus Postumum* (with Eckart Förster) for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (1993). He edited *Political Thought: An Oxford Reader* (with Jonathan Wolff, 1999) and *The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy* (with Brian Leiter, 2007). He has been Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor at Oxford and is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt- Universität, Berlin. His most recent book is *The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel and the Passage from Heaven to History* (Harvard University Press, 2022). Professor Rosen is on leave during the academic year 2025-26 but will return in Fall '26 to teach GOV 2097, Political Theory Field Seminar, and GOV 63, Political Theory: Methods and Resources. ## Recent Publications Download 6 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=ris) ### 2024 “[Ethos, Leninism and Perspective: On Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century](https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2023.2275105)”. 2024. *History of European Ideas* 50 (3): 1. “[Ethos, Leninism and Perspective: On Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century](https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2023.2275105)”. 2024. *History of European Ideas* 50 (3): 1. ### 2020 Rosen, Michael. 2020. “[A Comment on Noel Malcolm, Human Rights](/publications/comment-noel-malcolm-human-rights)”. *The Critical Quarterly* 62 (3): 44-47. Rosen, Michael. 2020. “[A Comment on Noel Malcolm, Human Rights](/publications/comment-noel-malcolm-human-rights)”. *The Critical Quarterly* 62 (3): 44-47. - [ picture\_as\_pdfA Comment on Noel Malcolm...](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/michaelrosen/files/critical_quarterly_-_2020_-_rosen_-_a_comment_on_noel_malcolm_human_rights.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdfA Comment on Noel Malcolm...](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/michaelrosen/files/critical_quarterly_-_2020_-_rosen_-_a_comment_on_noel_malcolm_human_rights.pdf) Rosen, Michael. 2020. “[Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos: German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity](/publications/whatever-happened-ontic-logos-german-idealism-and-legitimacy-modernity)”. In *in Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor*, edited by Daniel Weinstock, Jacob Levy, and Jocelyn Maclure. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. Rosen, Michael. 2020. “[Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos: German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity](/publications/whatever-happened-ontic-logos-german-idealism-and-legitimacy-modernity)”. In *in Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor*, edited by Daniel Weinstock, Jacob Levy, and Jocelyn Maclure. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. - [ picture\_as\_pdfWhatever Happened to the ...](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/michaelrosen/files/whatever_happened_to_the_ontic_logos_march_2020.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdfWhatever Happened to the ...](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/michaelrosen/files/whatever_happened_to_the_ontic_logos_march_2020.pdf) ### 2018 Rosen, Michael. 2018. “[Nuggets of Humanity: Why Dignity Matters](/publication/nuggets-humanity-why-dignity-matters).” Rosen, Michael. 2018. “[Nuggets of Humanity: Why Dignity Matters](/publication/nuggets-humanity-why-dignity-matters).” - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/nuggets-of-humanity/) - [ picture\_as\_pdfNuggets of Humanity](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/michaelrosen/files/nugget_of_humanity.pdf) [Review](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/nuggets-of-humanity/) of Andrea Sangiovanni's *Humanity without Dignity* and Jeremy Waldron's *One Another's Equals.* - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/nuggets-of-humanity/) - [ picture\_as\_pdfNuggets of Humanity](/sites/g/files/omnuum7976/files/michaelrosen/files/nugget_of_humanity.pdf) ### 2014 Rosen, Michael. 2014. “[Kant Confusion](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kant-confusion/).” Rosen, Michael. 2014. “[Kant Confusion](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kant-confusion/).” - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kant-confusion/) [Review](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kant-confusion/) of Onora O'Neill's *Acting on Principle: An essay on Kantian ethics*. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kant-confusion/) Rosen, Michael. 2014. “[Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin](/publications/beyond-naturalism-ronald-dworkin).” Rosen, Michael. 2014. “[Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin](/publications/beyond-naturalism-ronald-dworkin).” - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.thenation.com/article/beyond-naturalism-ronald-dworkin/) [Review](https://www.thenation.com/article/beyond-naturalism-ronald-dworkin/) of Ronald Dworkin's *Religion without God*. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.thenation.com/article/beyond-naturalism-ronald-dworkin/)