Michael Stevenson - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Michael Stevenson

Core Faculty, Office Hours Program Head, Language Learning and Critique Program Fellow

Michael Stevenson received his BA in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, having begun his post-graduate study at Cornell University. He has taught at Columbia University as a Core Lecturer, and at Barnard College and Hunter College, City University of New York. He specializes in the German philosophical tradition, particularly Kant, German Idealism, Phenomenology, and Existentialism. Additionally, he initiated and was instrumental in the creation of Brooklyn Institute’s Language Learning and Critique Program, along with Bruce King. He can be reached at michael@thebrooklyninstitute.com.

Courses

Heidegger: Being and Time (BISR Longform)

Introduction to Kierkegaard: Existentialism, Faith, and Death

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Body

The Counter-Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Critique of Reason

Truth and Beauty: Kant’s Critical Aesthetics

Spinoza’s Ethics

Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (In-Person)

Schelling: Nature, Philosophy, and Existence

Heidegger: Truth, Technology, and Poetry (In-Person)

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Origins of Philosophical Romanticism

Lived Experience: an Introduction to Phenomenology

Alain Badiou: Being and Event

Heidegger: Being and Time

Heidegger: Being and Time (In-Person)

The Worst of All Possible Worlds: an Introduction to Schopenhauer

Philosophy of History

Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality (In-Person)

Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality

Plato’s Final Dialogues: On Being and the Forms

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Philosophy, Fact, and Silence

Richard Rorty: Philosophy and Anti-Philosophy

Henri Bergson: Time and Memory

Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue

Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (In-Person)

Fichte: Freedom, Philosophy, and the Self

On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran (In-Person)

Kant’s Practical Philosophy: Reason, Morality, and Freedom

Heidegger/Arendt: Philosophy, Influence, and Being

Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy in the Face of the Other

Making Meaning: an Introduction to Hermeneutics

Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology: a Critical Introduction

David Hume: Empiricism, Skepticism, and Enlightenment (In-Person)

The Young Hegelians: Society, Alienation, and Critique

Flux and Metaphysics: an Introduction to Process Philosophy

The Pittsburgh Hegelians: Hegel’s Unlikely American Renaissance

What is Analytic Philosophy?

Introduction to Aristotle: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Order of Nature

Kant’s Practical Philosophy: Reason, Morality, and Freedom (Thursday Section)

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (Monday Section)

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Introduction to Plato

Philosophy of Mind: Thinking and Consciousness

Understanding Hegel: Origins of German Idealism

The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Nature and Freedom: an Introduction to American Transcendentalism

French Existentialism: Beauvoir and Sartre

Descartes and the Origins of Modern Philosophy

The Philosophy of American Pragmatism: an Introduction

Philosophical Skepticism: Doubt, Evidence, Justified Belief

Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Philosophical Pessimism

Foundations of Modern Philosophy

Politics of the City: Plato’s Republic

Hope and Despair in Philosophy

Hegel and German Idealism

Rousseau: Inequality and Democracy

Kant’s Critical Philosophy