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I am an associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. I specialize in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy, focusing in particular on Hegel, German idealism, Marx, and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.
Karen Ng. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies. Greg S. Allen Chancellor's Faculty Fellow. Description of Research. Karen Ng specializes in nineteenth-century European philosophy (esp. Hegel and German Idealism) and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.
Sep 5, 2020 · Within this influential camp and between these paths, Karen Ng's book is one of the finest, offering an original defense between the two as a compelling third path. In this work, she offers a systematic defense of the concept of life as the ground of judgment and genome of Hegel's system.
Research | Karen Ng. My book, Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic (Oxford, 2020), is a systematic defense of the centrality of the concept of life for understanding the key tenets of Hegel’s philosophy, and in particular, for an understanding of his Science of Logic.
Feb 18, 2022 · Karen Ng is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, specializing in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially Hegel, German idealism, Marx, and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Her new book, Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic (OUP 2020) was awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book ...
KAREN NG. Curriculum Vitae Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University 2111 West End Avenue, 111 Furman Hall, Nashville, TN 37240 Email: karen.ng@vanderbilt.edu | Phone: 917.692.3089. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS.
Apr 1, 2022 · Karen Ng has produced an original and ambitious book that aims to defend a novel understanding of Hegel’s “idealism.”. Such idealism, in Ng’s view, does not deny that things exist outside the mind, but it maintains that life is what “opens up the possibility of rendering things intelligible” (64).
