Faculty & Staff
Todd Hedrick
Todd Hedrick works on contemporary social/political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and critical social theory. He also has interests in ethics, the history of political philosophy, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2006. He is currently working on book manuscript entitled Reification and Reconciliation: Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory.
Prof. Hedrick is on leave during Spring 2016.
Book publications:
Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2010).
Other Recent Publications:
"Ego Autonomy, Reconciliation, and the Duality of Instinctual Nature in Adorno and Marcuse," Constellations (forthcoming, June 2016).
“Reification In and Through Law: Elements of a Theory in Marx, Lukács, and Honneth,” European Journal of Political Theory 13, no. 2 (2014): 178-198.
“Reifying and Reconciling Class Conflict: From Hegel’s Estates to Habermas’ Interchange Roles,” European Journal of Social Theory 16, no. 4 (2013): 522-540.
"Democratic Constitutionalism as Mediation: The Decline and Recovery of an Idea in Critical Social Theory," Constellations 19, no. 3 (2012): 383-400.
"Coping with Constitutional Indeterminacy: Rawls and Habermas," Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 2 (2010): 183-208.
"Race, Difference, and Anthropology in Kant's Cosmopolitanism," Journal of the History of Philosophy 46, no. 2 (2008): 245-68.
"Constitutionalization and Democratization: Habermas on Postnational Governance," Social Theory and Practice 33, no. 3 (2007): 387-410.
E-mail: hedrickt@msu.edu