George E. McCarthy
George E. McCarthy is a professor of sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, USA.Education
George E. McCarthy became National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology in 2000. He has been a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt am Main, a guest professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich, and a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in philosophy and sociology at the University of Kassel. He has received a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Fulbright Research Fellowship, and an NEH Research Fellowship. McCarthy's courses at Kenyon College focus on ethics and social justice, political and social theory, philosophy and sociology of science, German social thought and Greek philosophy/literature, and American political economy. His major area of concentration is nineteenth- and twentieth-century German social theory: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas.Publications
- Marx's Critique of Science and Positivism
- Marx and the Ancients: Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-Century Political Economy
- Eclipse of Justice: Ethics, Economics, and the Lost Traditions of American Catholicism, with Royal Rhodes
- Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity, editor
- Dialectics and Decadence: Echoes of Antiquity in Marx and Nietzsche
- Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas
- Objectivity and the Silence of Reason: Weber, Habermas, and the Methodological Disputes in German Sociology
- Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece
- Eclipse of Justice: Ethics, Economics, and the Lost Traditions of American Catholicism, with Royal Rhodes, paperback reprint
- Dreams in Exile: Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory
- Justice Beyond Liberalism, with Royal Rhodes
- Shadows of the Enlightenment: Toward a Critical Theory of Ecology and Environmental Justice
- "" in Constructing Marxist Ethics: Critique, Normativity, Praxis, ed. Michael J. Thompson, Brill, 2015,
- Marx and Social Justice. Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy
- Justice Beyond Heaven: Natural Law and Economic Democracy in U.S., German, and Irish Catholic Social Thought with Royal W. Rhodes
