Katalin Makkai was born in Budapest and grew up in Montreal (Canada); she moved to the United States for graduate school and has lived there since, most recently in New York City. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 2001, and from 2001 to 2009 was assistant professor in the joint Department of Philosophy of Barnard College and Columbia University. She is currently writing a book on Kant's critical aesthetics. Her article "Kant on Recognizing Beauty" appeared in the European Journal of Philosophy (18: 3, 2010). She is editor of--and a contributor to--a collection of essays on Hitchcock's Vertigo, forthcoming in Routledge's Philosophers on Film series. Other research interests include post-Kantian turns against metaphysics and related questions of philosophical methodology and writing. Her next writing project will concern the later Wittgenstein and two of his contemporary readers, McDowell and Cavell.
Contact: k.makkai@ecla.de

Courses taught at ECLA:

Core Courses:
Values of Renaissance Florence
Objectivity

Electives:
Classical Texts in Ethics and Political Theory
Individual and Society
The 'Gaze'
Being Embodied: Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology
Morality and Psychoanalysis
What is a Photograph? (PY Reading Group)
Richard Moran's Authority and Estrangement (PY Reading Group)