Rate My Professor Brendan Hogan

Brendan Hogan is a Clinical Professor in the Global Liberal Studies program at New York University, where he teaches the history of political and social philosophy in the Global Works and Society Sequence. His courses explore responses from thinkers including Plato, Lao Tzu, Averroes, Hobbes, Cavendish, Kant, Hegel, Fanon, and Cusicanqui to fundamental questions about justice, legitimate political regimes, and the exercise of critical and creative agency in political life. Hogan's research focuses on understandings of human action, the roles of rationality and imagination in individual and collective political power, and normative issues in cosmopolitanism and global citizenship. He earned a B.A. from Gonzaga University and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research. Hogan served as a research fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales during the 2018–19 academic year. His publications include “Transactional Nature” in the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2024), “The Scavenger” in Dewey Studies (2023), and co-authored works such as “Real Interests and Incoherent Desires” in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2022) and “Actionable Consequences: reconstruction, therapy, and the remainder of social science” (2020). Additional contributions address topics in pragmatism, economic rationality, social inquiry, and emancipation, appearing in journals including Contemporary Pragmatism and Pragmatism Today, as well as edited volumes from Springer and Mimesis.