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Stefan Bird-Pollan
Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, 40508
stefanbirdpollan@uky.edu
Professional
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy— University of Kentucky, 2010- present
Lecturer— Harvard University, 2007-2010
Adjunct Professor — University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2005
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PhD., (Philosophy) Vanderbilt University, 2008 (“Subject, Normativity, World”
a Hegelian Critique of Recent Kantian Work in Moral Philosophy)
D.Phil., (German Literature) Oxford University, 2003 (“Franz Kafka; a
Dialectical Approach”)
BA., (History with honors), UC San Diego, 1996
Education
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Selected Publications
Book:
 Fanon, Hegel and Freud; The Dialectic of Emancipation. London: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2014.
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Articles:
“What Hegel Saw in Kant”. Forthcoming, Hegel Jahrbuch, 2015.
“Fanon, Freud and Hegel; The Psychological Origins of Colonial
Oppression”. Forthcoming in Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 2015
“Taking People as People; Kant, Judgments of Beauty and Judgments of
Morality”. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. 5. (2013)
“Kant, Genius and Moral Development”. Kant und die Philosophie in
weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010. Berlin: de
Gruyter, 2013. vol. 4.
“Purposiveness, Need and Critique; A Kantian Reading of Marcuse”. Radical
Philosophy Review. 16.1 (2013)
“Fanon, Colonialism and the Critical Ideals of German Idealism”. Critical
Horizons. 13.3. (2012)
“Hegel’s Grounding of Intersubjectivity in the Master-Slave Dialectic”.
Philosophy and Social Criticism. 38.3 (2012).
“Some Normative Implications of Korsgaard’s Theory of the Intersubjectivity
of Reason”. Metaphilosophy. 42.4 (2011).
“Rawls on Construction and Justification”. Public Reason, 1.2 (2009).
Major Fellowships
 Fulbright University of Vienna Visiting Professor of the Humanities and Social
Sciences— Awarded for the fall/winter semester, 2014/2015.
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Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship — Awarded
for the academic year 2003-2004 for study and work on dissertation in Berlin
at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Visiting Professor
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Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan, May 2014.
Conference Presentations (Selected)
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Conference: “Der ‘innere Gerichtshof’ der Vernunft; Normativität, Rationalität
und Gewissen im Deutschen Idealismus”, Tilburg University, invited speaker:
“Seeing the Big Picture: Kant, Practical Reason and Purposiveness”,
December 2014
Conference: Kant on Purposiveness, Leuven University, Keynote speaker:
“From Purposiveness to the Moral Law”, November, 2014.
University of Leipzig, invited paper: “From Purposiveness to the Fact of
Reason”, November, 2014.
Hegel Congress 2014, University of Vienna: “What Hegel Saw in Kant”, April
2014.
International Marcuse Conference, University of Kentucky, “The Role of the
Economic in Psychoanalysis and Marxism: The Case of Marcuse”, November
2013.
Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers University,
NJ, “The Role of the Economic in Psychoanalysis and Marxism: The Case of
Marcuse”, November 2013.
European Society for Aesthetics, Prague, “Treating People as People; Kant’s
Judgments of Beauty and Judgments of Morality”, June 2013.
University of Houston, Downtown, invited Lecture: "From the Master-Slave
Dialectic to the Super-Ego: Fanon's Theory of the Revolutionary Subject",
April 2013.
Villanova University, Philadelphia, invited lecture: "From the Master-Slave
Dialectic to the Super-Ego: Fanon's Theory of the Revolutionary Subject",
February, 2013
University of Massachusetts, Boston, invited lecture: “Fanon’s
Psychoanalysis of Colonial Psychopathology”, November, 2012.
University of Toronto, invited lecture: “Fanon’s Psychoanalysis of Colonial
Psychopathology”, September 2012.
Sigmund Freud University, invited lecture: “Freud, Fanon and the ‘Normal
Structure” in Psychoanalytic Practice”, June 2012.
Law and Society Conference: “The Antinomy of Law: Why Liberalism Needs
Kelsen’s Basic Norm and why Kelsen Need’s Kant”, June 2012.
American Philosophical Association: “Hegel and Fanon’s Philosophies of
History”, December 2011.
Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: “The Disappearance
of Need and the Failure of Authority in Marx and Freud”, November 2011.
International Herbert Marcuse Society: “Purposiveness, Need and Critique; A
Kantian Reading of Marcuse”, October 2011.
Oxford University, invited lecture: “Reason, Sociality, and the Idea of
Tolerance in Spinoza, Mendelssohn and Kant, June 2011.
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Sigmund Freud Universität, invited lecture: “Freud, Kant and the Origins of
Normativity”, June 2011.
Harvard University, invited lecture: “Fanon, Hegel and the Ideals of German
Idealism”, February 2011.
Association for Political Theory: “Reason, Sociality and the Idea of Tolerance
in Spinoza and Mendelssohn”, October 2010.
German Studies Association: “Kant, Adorno and the Primacy of the
Practical”, October 2010
International Kant Congress, Pisa: “Kant, Genius and Moral Development”,
May 2010.
American Philosophical Association, Central Division: “Kant and the Practical
Implications of Genius”, February, 2010.
North New England Philosophical Association: “Korsgaard and Hegel on the
Intersubjectivity of Reason”, October 2009.
International Social Philosophy Conference: “Unifying Kant on Ethics and
History”, July 2009.
World Phenomenological Association: “Kant and Heidegger and on
Judgment and Genius”, May 2009.
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Studies Association: “Rousseau, Hegel and
Marx; the Category of Labor as the Basis for Social Critique”, April 2009.
Southern Political Science Association: “Hegel on Poverty and
Marginalization”, January 2009.
John Cabot University Critical Theory Conference: “Adorno’s Theory of
Practical Reason”, May 2008
Mills College, invited lecture: “Hegel’s Moral Psychology and the History of
Freedom”, February 2008
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: “Freud and Hegel:
The Melancholy Master and the Mourning Slave”, November 2007
Midwest Society for Political Science: “Rawls and the Limits of
Constructivism”, April 2006
University of New Hampshire— invited lecture: “Nietzsche and Kant: the
Breakdown of Genealogy”, April 2006
Translations (Selected)
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Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics. ed. Jay Bernstein. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Translation of ‘Kallias Letters’ by
Friedrich Schiller, ‘Letter to Hegel’, ‘Oldest Programme for a System of
German Idealism’, ‘Being Judgment Possibility’, ‘The Significance of
Tragedy’ and ‘Remarks on Oedipus’ by Friedrich Hölderlin, and excerpt from
‘On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful’ by Karl Phillip Moriz.
Cambridge Companion to Adorno. ed. Tom Huhn. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. Translation of ‘The Critical Theory of Society as
Reflective Sociology’ by Stefan Müller-Doohm and ‘Adorno’s Tom Sawyer
Opera Singspiel’ by Rolf Tiedemann.
Professional Activities
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Organizer of Aesthetics Conference, “Perspectives in the Philosophy of Art”,
University of Kentucky, March 2012.
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Languages
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English— native speaker
German— native speaker
French— fluent
Italian— good reading knowledge and basic conversation