I am an associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. I specialize in nineteenth- and twentieth-century post-Kantian philosophy and social and political philosophy, focusing in particular on Hegel, German idealism, Marx, and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. I also have interests in modern European philosophy, Kant, and feminist philosophy.

My book, Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic is published with Oxford University Press (2020). It received the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize in 2021.

You can email me at karen [dot] ng [at] vanderbilt [dot] edu.

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My partner, Matthew Congdon, is also a philosopher at Vanderbilt.

Header Image: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 358 (1981).