Antón Barba-kay

Biography

The University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought (M.A. 2009, Ph.D. 2013) • Dissertation: Intelligence Incarnate: The Logic of Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Committee: Robert Pippin, Jonathan Lear, Nathan Tarcov, Richard Velkley) University of Cambridge (King’s College), Classics (B.A. 2006, M.A. 2012 [Cantab.]) • First Class B.A. Honors, with Distinction. St. John’s College (Annapolis), Philosophy, History of Mathematics and Science (B.A. 2004).

Research Interest

Areas of Specialization: German Idealism; 19th-century European Philosophy. • Areas of Competence: Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle); Early Modern and Modern Political Thought (especially Rousseau and Tocqueville); Existentialism (especially Kierkegaard and Heidegger); Aesthetics.