Raymond Geuss is a renowned political philosopher and professor emeritus at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The primary areas of his interest are political philosophy, ethics, critical history of society and the European continental philosophy of the 19th and 20th century. He is one of the founders and one of the most important members of the school of political realism in contemporary Anglophonic political philosophy. He was born in 1946. in Evansville, Indiana, USA. He graduated at the University of Columbia where he got his PhD in 1971. He taught at the University of Columbia, Princeton and Chicago as well as at the universities in Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany and teaches at the University of Cambridge since 1993.
He is a member of the British Academy since 2011. He is the author of the following books: The Idea of a Critical Theory (1981), Morality, Culture and History (1999), Parrots, Poets, Philosophers and Good Advice (1999), At Cross Purposes (2001), History and Illusion in Politics (2001), Public Goods, Private Goods (2001), Glueck und Politik (2004), Outside Ethics (2005), Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), Politics and the Imagination (2010) i A World Without Why (2014). He is a coeditor of two critical editions of Nietzsche works “Birth of Tragedy” and “Writings from the Early Notebooks”. Along with Quentin Skinner he edits the edition Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. He published two collections of translations-adaptations of poems from ancient Greek, Latin and Old High German.
