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


Ph.D., Academy of Science of the GDR, 1983; Habilitation, Technische Universität Berlin, 2001.

Research: History of philosophy of the 17th and 18th century, European Enlightenment, the origin of the public sphere.

Selected Publications: Author of Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (de Gruyter, 2008); Appell an das Publikum. Die öffentliche Debatte in der deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796. 2 vol. (Berlin, 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)

Research articles in 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).