Brian O'Connor

Brian O’Connor, BA, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FRHistS, MRIA
Full Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin

Curriculum vitae

Books - Monographs
▪ Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (Princeton University Press, 2018)

  - translations: Chinese, 2019; Spanish, 2020; Finnish, 2022; Turkish, forthcoming
▪ Adorno (The Routledge Philosophers) (Routledge, 2013)
  - translation: Turkish, 2022
▪ Adorno's Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality (MIT Press, 2004)
  - translation: Persian, 2021

Books - Edited
▪ Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations (Columbia University Press, 2019), co-editor Amy Allen
▪ German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), co-editor Georg Mohr
▪ The Adorno Reader (Oxford / Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000)

Selected Articles / Chapters (past six years)

▪ 'Adorno on Philosophical Subjectivity', in The Oxford Handbook of Adorno (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), eds. Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster

▪ 'Accommodation, totality, and metaphysics: some comments on Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions', History of European Ideas, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2025) (pp. 410-413)
▪ ‘Philosophy and Historical Consciousness: The Case Renewed’: A Review Essay on History in the Humanities and Social Sciences, eds. Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, Society, Vol. 60, No. 3 (2023) (pp. 431-436)
▪ ‘Melancholy and Pessimism: Adorno’s Critique of Schopenhauer’, in The Schopenhauerian Mind (Oxford: Routledge, 2023), eds. David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll (pp. 531-543)
▪ ‘Freedom from Autonomy: An Essay on Accountability’, Kantian Review, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2020) (pp. 1-20) 
▪ ‘Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth’, in Blackwell Companion to Adorno (Oxford / Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), eds. Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, and Max Pensky (pp. 519-529)
▪ 'The Concept of Autonomy in the History of the Frankfurt School', in Cambridge History of Philosophy 1945-2015 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2019), eds. Kelly Becker and Iain Thomson (pp. 445-457)
▪ 'Marcuse and the Problem of Repression', in Routledge Companion to The Frankfurt School (Oxford / New York: Routledge, 2019), eds. Peter Gordon, Espen Hammer, and Axel Honneth (pp. 311-322)