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Background

Robert Guay works broadly in late modern European philosophy, in particular on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. He is especially interested in those strands of thought that characterize the normative standing of subjects as a kind of social, historical achievement (or failure), and thus maintains interests not only in historical texts but also in a range of related areas: e.g., ethics, agency, political and educational institutions, social explanation and the philosophy of art.

Select Publications

• Nietzsche’s Account of Morality, Cambridge Elements, forthcoming
• “On Cultural Belonging,” in Philosophical Engagements with Modernity, forthcoming
• "Passionate Actors and Wounded Apes: Nietzsche on Identity Formation,” in Nietzsche and Politicized Identity
• Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality, Edinburgh University Press, 2022
• Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2019

Education

• BA, Columbia University
• PhD, University of Chicago

Research Interests

• Nietzsche’s account of morality
• A philosophical primer on reparations
• Nietzsche’s relational account of ethics
• Philosophy of education
• Historical understanding

Teaching Interests

• Existence and freedom (introductory level)
• Nietzsche
• Reparations for historical injustice
• Educational justice
• Philosophy and literature

Awards

• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Research Profile