Jason Maurice Yonover
Princeton University
I work primarily in the history of philosophy and in political philosophy. In each case, my research has spanned several traditions. One recent focus of mine has been the intersection of early modern philosophy and modern German philosophy. I am especially interested in the post-Kantian era and its engagement with Spinoza, not least for issues raised at this intersection concerning the prospect of human freedom.
Currently, I am the Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, where I am pursuing a monograph project on the central notions of nature and freedom in Nietzsche and Spinoza.
I am co-editor of the volume Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century, appearing with Oxford University Press this summer.
My research has been published in venues including the European Journal of Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, the Goethe Yearbook, and the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza. I also have publications forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition and the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy. Please click “Publications” in the upper-right corner of this page for more information on my written work.
I completed two PhDs at Johns Hopkins University, in the Department of Philosophy as well as the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (German Section).
I received my BA at Cornell University, where I graduated summa cum laude in 2012. Following this, I was a visiting student at the Universität Heidelberg until 2014 with a fellowship provided by the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
My work has also been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD (x2), the US Department of Education (x2), the Leo Baeck Institute, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, and the American Philosophical Association, particularly via its Baumgardt Memorial prize.
Last year, I presented my research in a public lecture at the Leo Baeck Institute NYC, at the Princeton-Bucharest seminar in early modern philosophy, and beyond. I look forward to giving talks at Vanderbilt University, an American Philosophical Association conference, and elsewhere in the coming months. Please navigate to “Presentations” for further details.
Contact: jmyonover [at] princeton.edu