Richard Dien Winfield

Richard Dien Winfield
Born	April 7, 1950 (1950-04-07) (age 74) New York City
Alma mater	Yale University
Spouse	Sujata Gupta Winfield
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Main interests	Philosophy

Richard Dien Winfield (born April 7, 1950) is an American philosopher and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He has been president of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Winfield was a candidate for U.S. Representative from Georgia's 10th congressional district in 2018 and for U.S. Senate during the 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia.. `in both campaigns, Winfield advocated a Federal Job Guarantee social rights agenda, for which he argues at length in his 2020 book, Democracy Unchained.

Academic career

Winfield graduated from Yale College with a BA in 1972. He studied at the University of Paris at Vincennes in 1969-1970. In 1973 he completed a Magister Artium in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, writing his Master's thesis under Dieter Henrich. Winfield completed his Philosophy PhD at Yale University in 1977. His doctoral thesis was The Social Determination of Production: The Critique of Hegel's System of Needs and Marx' Concept of Capital; his advisers were Louis Dupré and Andrzej Rapaczynski. In 1982 Winfield won the Roe Foundation Hegel Prize for his essay "Hegel's Challenge To The Modern Economy". In 1986 Winfield was elected `President of the Society for Systematic Philosophy. From 2002-2004 he served as elected President of the Hegel Society of America. From 2013-2015, Winfield held the elected position of Vice-President and then President of the Metaphysical Society of America. In 2001 he received the title of Distinguished Research Professor from the University of Georgia.

Personal life

Winfield has been married to Sujata Gupta Winfield since 1983 and they have three children. Since 1982, Winfield has lived in Athens, Georgia. In 2019, Winfield founded the nonprofit organization "Alliance for a Social Bill of Rights", which advocates social rights such as a federal job guarantee, Medicare for all, and legal care for all.

Books

• Rethinking the Arts after Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2023), ISBN 978-3-031-35541-7
• In Defense of Reason After Hegel: Why We Are So Wise (Anthem Press, 2022), ISBN 978-1-83998-242-2
• Democracy Unchained: How We Should Fulfill Our Social Rights and Save Self-Government (Deeds Publishing, 2020), ISBN 978-1-950794-13-3
• Universal Biology after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel: the Philosopher's Guide to Life in the Universe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), ISBN 978-3-319-75357-7
• Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel: the Philosopher's Guide to the Universe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), ISBN 978-3-319-66280-0
• Rethinking Capital (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ISBN-13:978-3319398402; ISBN 978-3-319-39840-2
• The Intelligent Mind: On the Origin and Constitution of Discursive Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), ISBN 978-1-137-54932-7
• Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), ISBN-10:1137442379; ISBN 978-1-137-44237-6
• Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), ISBN 978-1-4422-2337-0
• Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), ISBN 978-1-4422-1934-2
• The Living Mind: From Psyche to Consciousness (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), ISBN 978-1-4422-1155-1
• Hegel and Mind: Rethinking Philosophical Psychology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), ISBN 978-0-230-24100-8
• Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror (Ashgate, 2007), ISBN 978-0-7546-6056-9
• From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic (Ashgate, 2006), ISBN 978-0-7546-5536-7
• The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government (Humanity Books, 2005), ISBN 978-1-59102-317-3
• Autonomy and Normativity: Investigations of Truth, Right and Beauty (Ashgate, 2001), ISBN 978-0-7546-1620-7
• The Just Family (State University of New York Press, 1998), ISBN:0-7914-3997-6; ISBN 978-0-7914-3998-2
• Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms after Hegel (State University of New York Press, 1996), ISBN 978-0-7914-2782-8
• Systematic Aesthetics (University Press of Florida, 1995), ISBN 978-0-8130-1368-8
• Law in Civil Society (University Press of Kansas, 1995), ISBN 978-0-7006-0699-3
• Freedom and Modernity (State University of New York Press, 1991), ISBN 978-0-7914-0810-0
• Overcoming Foundations: Studies in Systematic Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 1989), ISBN 978-0-231-07008-9
• Reason and Justice (State University of New York Press, 1988), ISBN:0-88706-710-7; ISBN 978-0-88706-711-2
• The Just Economy (Routledge, 1988), ISBN:0-415-00185-4; ISBN:0-415-90342-4; reissued in Routledge Revival Series (Routledge, 2022), ISBN 978-1-032-19459-2

References

• Domlija, Lexi (27 February 2019). "UGA professor's nonprofit advocates for a 'social bill of rights'". The Red and Black. Retrieved 2020-02-05.

External links

• Campaign website