Name Susan James | Role Professor | |
Books Spinoza on Philosophy - Religion, Passion and Action: The Emot, Beyond Equality and Differ, The Content of Social Ex, Manifesting 102 & Beyond | ||
Susan james why should we read spinoza 07 11 2014
Susan James (born 1951) is a British professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London. She has previously taught at the University of Connecticut and the University of Cambridge. She is well known for her work on the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy.
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- Susan james why should we read spinoza 07 11 2014
- Education and career
- Research
- Awards and honours
- References
Education and career
Susan James received her BA, MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy from New Hall, University of Cambridge. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut for two years before she returned to Cambridge, first as the Kathryn Jex Blake Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and then Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy. She joined Birkbeck in 2000 and has held fellowships in Israel, Germany, Australia and America. From 2013–2014 she was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She has been a Visiting Professor at John Hopkins University since 2015, and will be Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 2017.
Research
James has published widely on the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy, political and social philosophy and feminist philosophy. Most recently she has focused on the ethical and political implications of the passions in early modern philosophy, primarily in the work of Spinoza.
Her first book was The Content of Social Explanation (Cambridge University Press, 1984). She has also written more than 50 journal articles.